Not of General Interest

I'm getting the Inspiration Award post ready (thank you, profacero!), but in the meantime, here is a pop quiz about putting together con...

I guess you'd call it a trifecta of blog obsessions, anyway: Malcolm Gladwell 's Outliers not only has a lot to say about what crea...

President Obama, Inaugural Address: "Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remakin...

To repeat a post from November: Obama! Yay! His speech was just right. He is just right. I hope there's a moratorium on all the pundit...

From The Chronicle : The chancellor of the Texas A&M University system wants to give faculty members bonuses of up to $10,000, based on...

Mel's post on archiving and cleaning out old letters  (with a link to Flavia's post ) struck a chord.  Yesterday I was on a cleanin...

At Inside Higher Ed there's article on a joint report by the MLA and the Teagle foundation. (Read it. I'll wait.) While I can see ...

As I sat at my desk today, not wanting to go out (if you saw the weather here, you wouldn't, either), I looked around the study. Extreme...

Since everyone's posting either end-of-the - year memes , themes ( here , resolutions ( here and here ), or no resolutions , here...

I dreamed last night that I was at the inauguration. In fact, I was Obama. Do I want to take over the world, or what? Reading all the MLA r...

The publisher of one of the pieces I had promised to do this fall (now finished and submitted--hooray!) required the work to be sent to the ...

After several years in a row of going to MLA, I'm glad that I didn't go this year. Grateful. Relaxed. Happy. Christmas was wonderful...

Despite two more messages tonight from eager colleagues (stop, already!), I'm going on an academic fast for the next week--nothing but f...

To all those who are contacting me this week, when there is not one single administrative thing I am responsible for doing or can do until s...

This is bad news and good news. From Inside Higher Ed : Today the Modern Language Association is releasing information on just how bad the s...

Grades: done! Weather: snow. Article: sent. School: none!

There's an essay by Malcolm Gladwell called "Most Likely to Succeed" over at The New Yorker this week. After having read (an...

From overthinkingit.com , as seen at Lifehacker . (As for the literary connection: there's a little Dead Poets Society in there)

I guess you could call this another nail in the coffin of print culture, but in this case, the magazines are the ones shooting themselves in...

Tenured Radical has had some (as usual) fine posts recently about going on to graduate school. The latest of them explains that, yes, the ma...