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Good news too
All the longuers of yesterday somehow overwhelmed what should have been the day’s notable good news: my proposal for the 2010 SC4: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses has been accepted! W… more →
The Painful Nowning Process
Good news too
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elrambo wrote 2 weeks ago: All the longuers of yesterday somehow overwhelmed what should have been the day’s notable good … more →
What can you do with an English major? (continuing series)
elrambo wrote 4 months ago: As we embark on another school year, English majors who are juniors and seniors (or their parents) a … more →
William Blake: I don't understand him either
elrambo wrote 5 months ago: …but I still like his poetry. I’m pleased to be teaching the “Romantics to 20th c. … more →
ARTICLES OF INTEREST
bookerenglish wrote 5 months ago: STOP USING RHETORIC TO TEACH WRITING CELL STORIES THE FUTURE OF READING IN A DIGITAL WORLD EDUCATION … more →
English majors--what to do?
elrambo wrote 7 months ago: I cannot believe how many hits this blog gets from people looking for “what to do with an Engl … more →
'In Praise of Melancholy' author to speak
Doug Hubley wrote 7 months ago: Eric Wilson Eric G. Wilson, whose 2008 book Against Happiness offers a provocative antidote to Ameri … more →
Elizabeth Strout ’77 wins Pulitzer for fiction
Bryan McNulty wrote 7 months ago: The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday. Elizabeth Strout ’77 has received the 2009 award for … more →
April...apparently actually cruel
elrambo wrote 8 months ago: Gratuitous T.S. Eliot quote: April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixi … more →
Pulitzer-winning novelist Diaz speaks in Multicultural Center event
Phyllis Graber Jensen wrote 8 months ago: Junot Díaz, whose novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” won the 2008 Pulitzer Pri … more →
Mummy too, Goes to School...
edmai wrote 8 months ago: climb on every mountain I am 33 years old now. I have 2 daughters and a son. I am a high school grad … more →
Bates literary series presents 'Two Kinds of Decay' author
Doug Hubley wrote 9 months ago: Sarah Manguso Sarah Manguso, author of the memoir The Two Kinds of Decay, reads from her prose at 7: … more →
Lavina Shankar discusses 'dogs and their humans'
Phyllis Graber Jensen wrote 9 months ago: Professor of English Lavina Shankar poses with Phoebe in December 2005. Lavina Shankar, professor o … more →
New MLA style
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elrambo wrote 9 months ago: It’s here! Well, actually, it arrived last year with the 3rd ed. of the MLA Style Manual, but … more →
'Invention of Everything Else' author among writers in literary series
Bates Online Media wrote 9 months ago: Samantha Hunt Samantha Hunt, who wrote a novel about the inventor Nikola Tesla, and Two Kinds of Dec … more →
What can you do with an English major? Go to med school!
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elrambo wrote 10 months ago: Seriously. Get your M.D. and be a doctor. Do you know how many doctors have also become great writer … more →
Poet, prize-winning novelist read from their work at Bates
Bates Online Media wrote 10 months ago: In 2009’s first installment in the Language Arts Live series at Bates College, novelist Magdal … more →
Rob Farnsworth pushes students to find the write way
Bates Online Media wrote 1 year ago: Robert Farnsworth Most students who study creative writing with Robert Farnsworth find themselves in … more →
Just write it
elrambo wrote 1 year ago: Yes, it’s summer, but a teacher’s work never ends. People just think we have long summer … more →
Sumer is i-cumen in
elrambo wrote 1 year ago: In the south, it’s “lhude singe mockingbird,” even though we have “cuccu … more →
