Not of General Interest

This isn't as much a post as a link roundup of posts explaining why the educated middle class is to blame for--well, just about everythi...

From this month's Esquire, Philip Roth on writing (p. 186 ) : Has the writing gotten any easier? That's hard to answer. There are d...

Approximate number of words written today: about 3,000. Number of words that had anything to do with my own writing: 0. Number of words in l...

The New York Times Magazine has an article about middle-school students using the Livescribe pen (used to be Pulse Pen) in class. Short vers...

You know how the conventional wisdom is to break up your exercise routine so that you don't get too bored with it and so that your muscl...

We may have a winner in the "let's kill all the libraries" sweepstakes. Inside Higher Ed reports on "A Truly Bookless Lib...

I've been thinking about writing about audiobooks for a while, and Tenured Radical's recent post has inspired me to do so. It's ...

Tenured Radical has an interesting post up about her travails in getting the paper copy of The New York Times delivered early enough to re...

I think I've talked to more people this week than I talked to all summer. It's exciting to talk with students about their plans and ...

Just to let you know in advance: no positivity here. There's another article on tenure at the New York Times ; it's Christopher She...

Notorious Ph.D. has an interesting post called "Life of the Mind" in which she notes that a lot of bloggers are setting up times f...

Maybe because I'm working at present on a figure whose critical stock was once high but has fallen dramatically, I'd like to see som...

Because I had been trying to keep a self-imposed ban on reading IHE/CHE as part of the positivity campaign, I'd missed the whole kerfuff...

It's a strange feeling when you get an article back and it's been accepted, but among the minor changes suggested by the reviewers i...

I like "technology." I really do. Like a lot of people, I have used/do use Twitter, blogs, web pages, listservs (remember those?),...

Note: I don't think there are any spoilers here for those who are now up to speed on Season 4, but you never know. If you don't like...

In the spirit of positivity and John Steinbeck, I'm going to start the morning not with a warm-up letter to my editor but with a warm-u...

Jonathan Franzen's writing habits, from a profile in Time magazine this week (abridged version here ). He writes six or seven days a w...

I am avoiding all talk of tenure and deadwood (still clinging with a tight, desperate grip to positivity), but if you want to know what I th...

Underneath a stack of books the other day, I found a copy of Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters, and I started to read a little of...