Regular visitors to this site . . . well . . . if such creatures exist, they probably need to get a life. At best, my blogging habits have always followed feast-or-famine cycles. And so regular visits — especially over the past year or so — would not have been a worthy use of most […]
Advice for graduate students
I’m a digital pack rat. The odds are good that, if I wrote something of even minimal significance on a computer since the first one I owned back in 1988 (a dual-floppy disk system running MS-DOS with an amber-screen monitor), I still have a copy tucked away in some folder on my hard drive. And […]
Mining the Archives
There were some very kind responses — both here and on Facebook — to the very short talk that I shared in this space last week. And one of the things those kind responses made me think about was how often those of us who work in academic settings put things out into the world […]
More found haiku (more grad seminar reading) [Rerun Sunday]
must have money and a room of one’s own if she is to write fiction — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own You can find a brief explanation of “Rerun Sunday” here. The post above originally appeared on 26 January 2012.