My latest for EdSurge: "A new peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Public Humanities, aims to strengthen the connections between university-based humanities work and the wider world, creating a space for academics and practitioners to share what they do and how they do it. And its creation is a sign of how professors and others in higher education want to make the case that, in spite of perennial laments about the crisis in the humanities, they’re very much alive, especially if you look beyond dismal stats about funding cuts, threatened departments and declining majors." Read More at EdSurge »
Writing
War and Remembrance: New Novels by Lois Lowry and Gayle Forman
How ‘housewife’ became an insult
What Brings Gen Z to the Library?
"Young people look to libraries to provide safe places to hang out and to access resources like free Wi-Fi, makerspaces, and tech equipment — expectations they carry with them to college." Read More at EdSurge »
Why We Collect
Post-Clutter, I've gotten more and more fascinated by what we choose to save. So when Fine Books & Collections asked me to talk to book collectors about what inspires them, I jumped at the chance. The story's not available online, but you can buy a copy of the issue for a few bucks. Here's an excerpt:
Some collectors get started because of a particular hobby or passion. Others want to capture a cultural moment or movement. Many have been bibliophiles since childhood. Whatever their backgrounds, budgets, or enthusiasms, they’re driven by love—of the objects themselves and of the conversations and histories their collections document. Deep pockets aren’t a prerequisite. Some of the most intriguing collections belong to students and earlycareer professionals who don’t fit the image of a collector as a well-heeled, older bibliophile with time and money to burn.Read More at Fine Books & Collections »
