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August 2011
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“Mostly we authors must repeat ourselves—that’s the truth. We have two or three...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, from “One Hundred False Starts” in A Short Autobiography (via scribnerbooks)
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The Loathsome Life of a College Professor →
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From my good friend Michael Tofias:
John Hudson says, being a college professor isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And that I am probably a depressed, childless, narcissistic jerk? Sounds about right (via Michael Zimmer).
Madness, I say.
But let me expand on this just a bit, especially since the new semester begins next week and I’ll be teaching my...
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What's Up With "Every Day" and "Everyday"?
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July 2011
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What's Up With the Subjunctive Mood?
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10 Commonly Misunderstood Words (Plus...
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Source: Grammar.net
“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or...”
– E.B. White, Here is New York
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Twenty-five of the Best Urbanism Quotes | This Big... →
The tell. | Stuff Christians Like – Jon Acuff →
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W. W. Norton: Perhaps because I find the prose of... →
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Perhaps because I find the prose of women writers such as Jean Rhys, Anne Carson, Lydia Davis, Marguerite Duras, Annie Dillard, Joan Didion, Octavia Butler, Eileen Myles, and their ilk often fiercer in form and effect than that of their male counterparts, from Ernest Hemingway to Raymond Carver,…
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