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This is the third post in what appears to be a series on responses to writing. Previously I laid out my idea of what constitutes a good resp...

Nerd alert: University of Washington Information School librarians significantly improve upon Lady Gaga's "Poker Face": [ Lyr...

I recently wrote a fairly rambling post about responding to other people's writing, which was partly an appreciation of those who have ...

Working in the quiet of the library with a friend: 1. One of us starts visibly trying to hold in laughter. 2. The other looks up quizzically...

Why do we tend to speak of Gertrude Stein as a poet? She was a poet, of course, but above all she was a fiction writer and an essayist. The ...

Kevin Dettmar recently asked his readers about their "guilty pleasures." He was talking about pop music, but sadly, I don't ...

I much enjoyed this ProfHacker post by Nels P. Highberg on " What We Can Do for Graduating Seniors Today " [ Chronicle paywall]. ...

Like many people, I had some formal musical training (violin) when I was pretty young and left off serious study about mid-college. I don...

I was well into my old age (like, 21?) when Facebook appeared, so I never created a Facebook account until earlier this year. I was lured in...

It seems that approximately the entire third-year cohort here just took qualifying exams this week. It makes me nostalgic for those days whe...

I recently had a conversation about letters -- you know, the kind you stick in the post. Since I've actually been known to write them on...

Kevin Dettmar's recent lovely ode to an editor put me in mind of my own readers. Like the art of praise, the art of giving useful feedb...