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"Now is the time..."
When's the last time you listened to the entire "I Have a Dream" speech? Also, here's a site that proposes...
Satire and Violence
Half-baked thoughts, then, toward an AWP presentation that won’t be: Jokes, the good Dr. Freud said famously, are often “hostile.”...
Don't Try Any Funny Stuff
I tried to put a panel session together for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Atlanta this...
A Moral Tale
Once there was a writer for one of America's biggest catalog companies. Perhaps because the young man was a veteran...
When Sentimentality Gets to Good Viewers
A film corollary to my last post, about bad books: The media always reports on how emotionally hard the holidays...
A Map of the Known Book World
One of the drawbacks of being in the English Department of a big research university is the climate of machismo...
Eponymous Me
Some experiences don’t last long enough for satisfaction. You know what I’m talking about—cream soda numbs the tongue to its...
Happy New Year!
And great good luck to all our friends looking for jobs on the academic market this year.