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Anecdotes Archive

Books on writing: Helpful?

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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

How many friends do you have that say they are writing a novel? How many of [...]


Ending the era of the tweet

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Thursday, July 16th, 2009

…at least, for myself. I have no illusions about the narcissism-fueled ADD conglomo-giant that is Twitter [...]


The Plight of an English Major

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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

A typical conversation I’ve had with relatives, friends, acquaintances, strangers, and pretty much anyone I’ve encountered [...]


Yeah dude, Gatsby 2: Gatsby In Jail

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Thursday, June 4th, 2009

So the other night– (I swear, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke. Bear with.) [...]


An Easy Major

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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

A lot of my friends have majors in Lebow, and they’re all getting ready for four [...]


Fun places to go be a cliché

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Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Okay, we’ve all seen them: there they sit, compressed into the very deepest and darkest corners [...]


It’s raining poems

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Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Today in yet another glorious art history class, our typical discussions of the spiritual nature of [...]


Cherish Your Books

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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

I love bookcases. I wish I had enough books to fill a whole library worth of [...]


Teacher Tactics

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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

In my “The Teaching of Writing” class yesterday, we were prompted to think and write about [...]


Books to movies: I’m still not sure that I’m a fan of adaptations.

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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

This weekend I was confronted with the option of watching “Blindness,” the movie adaptation of José [...]