Not of General Interest

Historiann , Dr. Crazy , Belle , and What Now are being thankful for/expressing gratitude at this appropriate season, and so will I, knockin...

I can't stop thinking about something that Historiann said in her comments section in the post on "Death of an Adjunct": Ten...

During Sebastian Thrun's recent "aw, we were just kidding about MOOCs" statements (see Jonathan Rees and Historiann ), some...

When I was a child, I read voraciously, as most of us probably did.  What I didn't have was any kind of framework for putting these book...

Historiann weighs in on the mean-spirited review of Disregarding Henry in The Chronicle and quite reasonably wonders why the reviewer bash...

I see a lot of people, including bloggers, posting about what they are thankful for this month.  It's a nice trend, especially since the...

At NYTimes.com  today, Tim Kreider urges the slaves of the internet to unite http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/opinion/sunday/slaves-of-the-...

Over at Slate, Rebecca Schuman suggests that the "quitting academe" essay could practically constitute its own genre :  Sarah Ke...

Sometimes when I wander over to writers' blogs where they're talking about writing a novel in a week or how many words they write a ...

I've been working on the introduction to the book manuscript, trying to write my way into Flavia's third stage of writing (writing e...

I was recently at a conference, and as part of the trip back I was set to spend the night at a chain hotel at the airport before flying out ...

My sixth-grade teacher once told our class that in a few years, people would evolve--yes, we believed in science back in those days--to crea...

Mightily inspired by Historiann's post on writing (the carrot of finishing the book) and Tenured Radical ( the stick of not getting to f...

The Little Professor has a nicely argued, well-bred rant about how "relatability" is supposed by her students to be a core literar...

Warm chocolate brownies with fresh raspberries on top can really start off an evening right. They are baking as I type this. After a long...

*Poof*--sorry, this seemed too much after I had posted it. Chalk it up to fatigue. 

I am saddened and angry but not a bit surprised at the "Death of an Adjunct" news and controversy .  Sadly, this isn't a ne...

At The New York Times, Carlo Rotella's  “No Child Left Untableted”  is a good look at what's happening to those who'll be our st...

I've been thinking about Steven J. Corbett and Michelle LaFrance's   "It's the Little Things That Count" over at the C...

In thinking about Madwoman's post on academics leaving academe (more later), I came across a  post with a clickbait title on how feminis...