Starting the New Year off with Atwood and mystery and memoir . . .

First novel of 2010? Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood, about which I think Puttermeister has pretty much articulated what I would say about the book(and she adds some interesting commentary about her longstanding…

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Random Stuff from a Busy Weekend (Shoes Included)

Fewer and farther between, these posts, with fewer and fewer photos. I hope that will change soon, but given that this is Week 4 of the term, I suspect it will get worse before it…

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Movie Time (and some minor anagnorisis, really!)

It’s been so busy lately — good busy, but still, busy . . . Besides a full slate teaching-wise (my 3rd-year Elegy course especially has me reading furiously to stay well ahead of my students),…

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What I Read in 2009

Near the end of last term, I posed the same question to each of my three sections of 1st-year University Composition. We’d been discussing Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good for You throughout the term,…

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Zebra Shoes — Dramatic? Disastrous?

I bought these shoes late last spring (at my local boutique, aptly called From A to Zebra), but I have only worn them once or twice since. While the impulse that moved me to get…

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