I received a brief and surprising email today. The first surprise was that the email arrived at all. You see, I'd emailed Elizabeth Strout, whose complex and often lovely novel in stories Olive Kitteridge. (If you haven't read Olive Kitteridge, I highly suggest it. There's...
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I'm not sure how I feel about wordriver, but I'm glad it exists, and I'm wildly intrigued. You see, wordriver is a new (as of 2009) literary journal. Like many.
It's almost May. The weather has changed and it's making me think ahead. I'm already planning my meager summer vacation. Most of this summer I'll be desperately working 8 and.
AA 52 More Perspectives I'd like to continue last week's process of breaking out of my own habitual limits by seeing the topic of adjuncts and writing from other perspectives. Consider the word from eHow, a popular site devoted to telling people how...
By Lance Eaton Some friends often knock me for constantly checking my email, but the habit isn't born of bad manners; it's a necessity for Freeway Flyers. Opportunity knocks via.
I recently wrote about wordriver (and my ambivalence regarding it). This week I'd like to touch on a markedly different publication, Kairos. Kairos is subtitled "A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology,.
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Do you make lists? I had a boyfriend long ago who accused me (with dripping superiority) of being a compulsive list-maker. The fact is, though, that while my life would definitely be greatly enhanced through the employment and application of lists, well,...
By Kat Kiefer-Newman We love our mothers. And because we love our mothers we've dedicated a day every year to saying so. By we I don't just mean here in.
I've mentioned from time to time how little research has been done about the shift in the academic labor force to primarily adjunct faculty that defines us all. I've also.
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Recently, I was at a fellow adjunct's house relaxing, enjoying a glass of something sweet, and talking about dining with several other colleagues. Without any warning one of my nasty little secrets came out: I am a vegetable snob. I tried to...
