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by Paul Thomas One of the best and most significant changes for me when I moved from high school English teaching to being a college professor was a blossoming of my life as a writer. In the spring of my first year of…

Academics write for the public more than ever before but are hampered by precariousness of their profession. This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log in. To subscribe, choose the subscription…

by Andrew Perrin A growing share of Americans are reading e-books on tablets and smartphones rather than dedicated e-readers, but print books remain much more popular than books in digital formats. Americans today have an enormous variety…

By Rich Russell The season for reading is here, friends! I feel guilty about how little progress I've made on the stack of books nesting on my bedside table: a veritable, vertical library that teeters like some structurally unsound tower…

by John D’Angelo Here’s what stupid uneducated people imagine that college literature professors do: teach. Here is what college literature professors actually do: write obscure papers that nobody will read. Now that’s where it’s at!…

This week we're shifting focus a bit. Dana S. Dunn is Professor of Psychology at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Moravian is a small and selective liberal arts college with a long and distinguished history. Professor Dunn has…

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 other little magazines, wordriver publishes short stories, poetry, and personal…

It is easy for those of us who are toiling away as full-time adjuncts (if you'll allow me that supposed oxymoron) forget how flexible and multifaceted that term is. It's also easy for those of us working in traditional academic fields like…

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 other little magazines, wordriver publishes short stories, poetry, and…

This week we're shifting focus a bit. Dana S. Dunn is Professor of Psychology at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Moravian is a small and selective liberal arts college with a long and distinguished history. Professor Dunn has…