A piece of flash fiction. I used to ride the D6 bus a lot. (Scroll down the page, which has several stories on it, to get to "Mercy.") Read More at The Smoking Poet »
Writing
“‘A Confederacy of Dunces,’ Still Strong at 30”
A classic novel endures, along with the university press that published it. Read More at PageView (CHE) »
“The ‘Unconference’: Technology Loosens Up the Academic Meeting”
Tired of the 3-paper-panel format? Try this. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“Hot Type: No Reviews of Digital Scholarship = No Respect”
How can you expect the members of your tenure-and-promotion committee to take your dazzling visualization of Republican Rome seriously if it's not getting review attention from the journals they read? Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“Southern Methodist U. to Consider Reviving Its Press in New Form”
It wasn't quite the news the press's supporters were hoping for, but a new statement from SMU's provost holds out some hope that SMU Press may have a second act. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
