Blogs about: Louis Menand
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How Do Professors Think? More Crisis in the Humanities
At the bottom of her n+1 review of Michele Lamont’s How Professors Think, Amanda Claybaugh laments that Lamont “fails” to answer the promise of her book’s title. Claybaugh appears to buy into the titl… more →
The Coming of the Toads
Changing Directions
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annieem wrote 1 month ago: In a recent issue of Harvard Magazine, one of my graduate school professors (before he was at Harvar … more →
Whats Wrong w/ Higher Ed in the US? Lots!
David J. Miller wrote 1 month ago: Newmark’s Door has a great blog entry offering a compilation of criticisms of higher education … more →
How Do Professors Think? More Crisis in the Humanities
Joe Linker wrote 4 months ago: At the bottom of her n+1 review of Michele Lamont’s How Professors Think, Amanda Claybaugh laments t … more →
a parallel: misremembering
Mac A. Bailey wrote 4 months ago: While reading an essay by Louis Menand, published in The New Yorker, called “Notable Quotables … more →
Quick Clicks
darlingaesthete wrote 4 months ago: The Economist takes a look at what happens when writers quit drinking. Eight flop albums by actors. … more →
Where jazz and literature get encaged
Joe Linker wrote 4 months ago: The 2009 Believer music issue (July/August 09) arrived yesterday, and there’s a perceptive interview … more →
Summer Reading. . .So Far
stephanievanderslice wrote 5 months ago: I love summer because no matter how crazy busy it gets (and this summer definitely qualifies as one … more →
I am home, I check the mail, and in the mail, I find a letter....
onparkstreet wrote 5 months ago: ….a plain white envelope, really, addressed to me and with Jonathan’s Boston address pos … more →
The New Yorker's Louis Menand on creative-writing programs at American universities
Trevor Calero wrote 6 months ago: Robert Frost (second from left) at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at Middlebury College. There … more →
writing for what?
Stephen wrote 6 months ago: While Louis Menand has certainly penned an intriguing take on graduate programs in creative writing, … more →
"I decided I knew nothing."
evankerry wrote 6 months ago: When I was in high school I got in trouble during Physical Science class. I was a freshman and didn … more →
My kind of class
Jess wrote 6 months ago: Continuing the tired old conversation of should creative writing be taught? (yes) and can you teach … more →
What You Should Be Reading...Now
uvasig wrote 6 months ago: Recent good reads: Time’s take on how Twitter might change the way we live Matt Bai’s Su … more →
Louis Menand, I am going to slap you
wikipetera wrote 6 months ago: This article is deplorable. As far as i can tell, Menand’s argument is that creative writing … more →
How to Become a Writer (or Not)
sonyachung wrote 6 months ago: 8 June 2009 I’ve posted a new short memoir, “How to Become a Writer,” on my Storie … more →
The Link 6.5.09: Teaching Writing, The Great Commission, and Church Planting
owenstrachan wrote 6 months ago: 1. I cannot help but again recommend the Mat Kearney song “Closer to Love” to you. So y … more →
Mark McGurl's "The Program Era"
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Deborah Barlow wrote 6 months ago: Mark McGurl (Photo by Kevin Scanlon) Louis Menand has written a provocative piece in this week … more →
Can you teach it?
wiedemar wrote 6 months ago: Writing, that is. Louis Menand asks that question in this week’s New Yorker, the summer fictio … more →
The Institutionalized Artist
sonyachung wrote 6 months ago: 2 June 2009 Louis Menand’s New Yorker article about university-based creative writing programs … more →
