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Sometimes, life hands you a metaphor which is just absolutely perfect. I think that's the case with the current meltdown...
Brevity Is A Virtue
I have something in the new issue of Brevity, the premiere online journal of concise literary nonfiction, if you're interested...
D.F.W., R.I.P.
The late David Foster Wallace didn't settle for satire. Scott McLemee says farewell to a wild talent.
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I did a double-take when I saw this piece in the Chronicle. Apparently, the University of Georgia is dealing with...
ABC's and PhD's: The Secret Lives of Soccer Moms
My kids have been playing soccer since they were 4 years old, and just this week, I found out that...
Poetry, Bow Ties, Station Wagons, and the Scholarly Life
Julio Alves recalls the professor who taught him how to be a student.
Mothering at Mid-Career: Career Suicide and Frankenstein
I'm teaching Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein in one of my classes right now, and somehow it's striking a different chord...
Ask the Administrator: Presidential Spouses
A new correspondent writes: The small, regional university at which I teach in the Midwest has a new president. He...
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