Virginia Woolf's got nothing on her
I finished up the Joanna Russ book; it was okay. I'm now a good way into The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid, and this gem looked nice. I'll probably end up teaching a grammar course in...
View ArticleMother...Tell your children not to walk my way
Another passage from The Autobiography of My Mother (pp. 96-98):I had never had a mother, I had just recently refused to become one, and I knew then that this refusal would be complete. I would never...
View ArticleThe Autobiography of My Mother
The following is a sort-of review of Jamaica Kincaid's Autobiography of My Mother. This is the sort of thing I post on my blog that tends to end up getting plagiarized for someone's assignment. It's so...
View ArticleNovels Read During Break
Joanna Russ, Picnic on ParadiseJamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My MotherJulia Alvarez, Saving the WorldZadie Smith, White TeethThe semester has started, and I just want to get back in my fiction...
View ArticleOver My Shoulder
From Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, page 65:Thanks to her I confronted my inner self for the first time as my ninetieth year went by. I discovered that my obsession for...
View ArticleBooks purchased at Charlotte airport
1. Smart Organizing: Simple Strategies for Bringing Order to Your Home, by Sandra Felton (the organizer lady!). I'm the biggest sucker for this 43folders kind of stuff. Jonathan will be so exasperated...
View ArticleOver My Shoulder: Composition and the Academy: A Study of Writing Program...
Here, if you don't remember, are the rules to Over My Shoulder. The book here is:Hartzog, Carol P. Composition and the Academy: A Study of Writing Program Administration. New York: Modern Language...
View ArticleOver My Shoulder: Noise from the Writing Center
Here, if you don't remember, are the rules to Over My Shoulder. The book here is:Boquet, Elizabeth H. Noise from the Writing Center. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2002.The quotation is from pages 42-43,...
View ArticleMarried Couple, Both Professors, Accused of Raping a Student
Wow. This story about a case involving two professors at Arkansas State is eerily similar to Joyce Carol Oates' excellent 2002 novella Beasts.
View ArticleWonder Women
I'm interested to read this book by the president of Barnard College: Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection. I don't know that it's gotten much play with the news media or the academic...
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