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A few more literature-in-the-media moments: Paul Krugman writes in the NYT : Economic data rarely inspire poetic thoughts. But as I was con...

Another way to phrase my students' dilemma is that they don't know whether to regard strange writing as ("deep") avant-gar...

I recently wrote a rather intemperate post chastising Rosemary Feal for suggesting that campus rape was caused by alcohol. She has graciousl...

A few weeks ago one of my friends was interviewed in a coffee shop about the crumbling economy. She was in that coffee shop working on her d...

Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, some Soup, and a Spool of Thread , 2003.      In case you we...

I’m not an avid reader of the MLA Newsletter , but for some reason I skimmed the most recent one. Rosemary Feal’s back-to-school column cove...

How is it that I had never before heard of Doctor Syntax ?

Walking up College Avenue on my way to the library this morning, I was bewildered by all the blue and gold. I have been living in Berkeley f...

Mark Twain at Play 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, 3 October free admission from the web site : How did Mark Twain spend his time when the “bread-...

PSA: The University of California Press is having an online sale right now, lasting until October 31. ( Princeton University Press is also...

AP: " Nobel literature head: US too insular to compete " Bad news for American writers hoping for a Nobel Prize next week: the top...