Not of General Interest

The New York Times reports that the F.C.C., which I am starting to think is run by Clay Davis, Evan Burrell, and William Rawls of The W...

At The Atlantic, Kattie Kay and Claire Shipman explore "The Confidence Gap."  In study after study, the same gender difference app...

So the world turns on its axis, and, like clockwork, the "monetization plan" that various critics have wondered about reveals itse...

Can you write an elegy for a place? Longtime readers, if there are any, might recall that over the course of a few summers I wrote about g...

Marc Bosquet's grandly titled "The Moral Panic in Literary Studies" at the Chronicle raises the specter of "senior membe...

From WaPo , some research confirming what a lot of us have observed in our students and maybe ourselves.  Skimming and websurfing is changin...

I have nothing on my mind right now except writing (and have nothing new to say about that yet). And maybe you're as tired as I am of re...

So the 2016 election is still 2 years away, yet every single article I see about Hillary Clinton has a negative tone, beginning with Time ma...

I've been getting a message when I've tried to post to some Wordpress blogs: "Your comment cannot be posted" or something ...

To escape from thoughts of work, for which TV works better than reading, I recently spent a couple of unfortunate nightmare-ridden nights af...

Travel + intense work = blog neglect. I've missed reading blogs and missed writing in this one, so I hope to get back to both. Some ni...

Some days are like that. You start with deadline-driven admin or service tasks and by the time you look up, 12 or 14 or so bleary-eyed hours...

I'm going through the manuscript and writing short pieces and making edits.  The notes and citations are for another day and another hea...

Over at the Chronicle, Julie Miller Vick and Jennifer Furlong say something that has long needed to be said: "You don't have to lov...

Last week I had lunch with the Colleague from Another Place Who Keeps Me Sane (Colleague for short). We got to talking about how hard it has...

No retrospective, no words of wisdom, because I'm trying to get stuff done--but I couldn't let the day pass without noting, for the ...

I've been reading Claire Potter's posts about writing in chunks, a method that makes a lot of sense. The manuscript I'm working ...

If this doesn't make you wince, read it again.  Yes, we knew a while back that there'd be no credit for you in a MOOC if you're...

I've been intrigued by Claire Potter/Tenured Radical's two posts about writing in public and Historiann's recent roundup menti...

Today is Martin Luther King Day.  Among other things we need to remember on this day is that the whole controversy over establishing it, mo...