Why are there so darn many, anyway, and what good are they? A Q&A with the author of The Economy of Prestige. Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
Journalism
“Scholarship on the Edge”
It's not always bad to write in your books. Hey, it worked for Coleridge, Keats and Blake. What marginalia can tell us about "the reading mind." Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Nobel Prize for Literature Goes to Harold Pinter”
“Disaster Could Have Been Far Worse, Says Sociologist Who Thinks New Orleans ‘Lucked Out’ “
A Q&A with Lee Clarke, author of Worst Cases: Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination, who explains why playing the odds isn't a good bet when it comes to disasters. Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Unraveling the Narrative”
Did the author of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano...," one of the 18th century's seminal slave narratives, fabricate his experience of life in Africa and the Middle Passage? U-MD English professor Vincent Carretta thinks maybe so, and others aren't so happy about it. Read a transcript of an online chat with Carretta. Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
