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The Marketplace. My Subconscious.
"I go back to professional baseball and Alex Rodriguez making $25 million a year. Or to Julia Roberts and $20...
Rules of Engagement
When I enlisted in the Army years ago, I was offered half-a-dozen duty stations for my first posting. I chose...
Stuck In Adjunct Hell
A long-suffering correspondent writes: I'm an adjunct . . . everywhere. Note that I am sending this from the Ringling...
Reading Evaluations
A new correspondent -- and apparently the kind of student we'd all like to have -- writes: As a student...
Attack of the Grinch
A new correspondent writes: I am a new department chair. The staff love to decorate for any and all holidays...
The Limits of Transparency
Search Committee Chair: The job starts next semester. Can you do that? Candidate: No problem! Rarin' to go! Woo-hoo! (skip...
Guest Post: On Seeing Clearly
[ Recently I asked writer, editor and teacher Dinty W. Moore to join the conversation on teaching creative writing, and...
Just a Job
Picking up on the premodern vs. modern theme of yesterday's post, Grad School Friend (who is on the tenure track...