I finished Donna Leon’s The Girl of His Dreams over the weekend — what an indulgence it is to escape into a well-written mystery, especially if it also offers the pleasures of imagining yourself in…
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It’s been a hectic two weeks, adjusting to the change-of-pace of the new term after the langourous pleasures of summer. I’ve been memorizing students’ names, writing up assignments and sending them off to the printshop,…
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Because I’m making my English 115 students read it, I’m re-reading Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter. It’s such a well-written piece of persuasion.…
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Okay, classes are back in, which means I’m going to be using all spare time for preparing and then for marking. There won’t be much time for writing elaborate responses to my reading, but I…
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My friend Tanis recommended Jane Gallop’s Anecdotal Theory to me this summer, and I’m so glad she did. I haven’t read Gallop for years. I first discovered her in a grad course on The Politics…
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