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This changed my perspective on Munro.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Alice Munro’s Passive Voice
The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.
www.newyorker.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This changed my perspective on Munro.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Ah, not Lodge too!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
David Lodge: Author of Nice Work and Small World dies aged 89
Lodge was twice nominated for the Booker Prize in the 1980s for comic novels Small World and Nice Work.
www.bbc.com
January 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Ah, not Lodge too!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I read something every day, but I plan on reading even more in 2025. Books were the only form of entertainment and escapism when I was growing up, and now they are the best getaway from political polarization and fake social media BS.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Deciding to read a book a week was the best new year resolution I ever made | Katie Cunningham
I read 52 books that year and I’ve kept the habit up in the years that followed, the routine now firmly established
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 1:39 PM
I read something every day, but I plan on reading even more in 2025. Books were the only form of entertainment and escapism when I was growing up, and now they are the best getaway from political polarization and fake social media BS.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I hope everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving! I am grateful for this community, its kind people, and its polite conversations!
November 29, 2024 at 1:42 AM
I hope everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving! I am grateful for this community, its kind people, and its polite conversations!
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What is preventing World War III? Ukrainians are containing the ongoing war in Europe to their own country; they are deterring war in the Pacific; and they are preventing spread of nuclear weapons. These scenarios have not played out because Ukrainians take risks
snyder.substack.com/p/a-third-wo...
snyder.substack.com/p/a-third-wo...
A Third World War?
Let's help those who are holding it back
snyder.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:22 PM
What is preventing World War III? Ukrainians are containing the ongoing war in Europe to their own country; they are deterring war in the Pacific; and they are preventing spread of nuclear weapons. These scenarios have not played out because Ukrainians take risks
snyder.substack.com/p/a-third-wo...
snyder.substack.com/p/a-third-wo...
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There is some comedy around men explaining the plot of The Handmaid's Tale to its author, in response to her tweet. But this also reveals the tragedy beneath – of misunderstandings that point to the moral and therefore political vulnerability of the United States.
snyder.substack.com/p/casting-th...
snyder.substack.com/p/casting-th...
Casting the First Stone
Handmaid Fails, 2/3
snyder.substack.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:57 PM
There is some comedy around men explaining the plot of The Handmaid's Tale to its author, in response to her tweet. But this also reveals the tragedy beneath – of misunderstandings that point to the moral and therefore political vulnerability of the United States.
snyder.substack.com/p/casting-th...
snyder.substack.com/p/casting-th...
She was vulnerable and 16. He started a relationship with her even though he had a son her age.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
Cormac McCarthy had 16-year-old ‘muse’ when he was 42, Vanity Fair reports
Augusta Britt says relationship with then-married author, who died in 2023, began after they met at motel pool
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:30 PM
She was vulnerable and 16. He started a relationship with her even though he had a son her age.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
This is one of the reasons we did not want to stay on the VA/NC border: www.propublica.org/article/segr...
Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2024 at 8:47 PM
This is one of the reasons we did not want to stay on the VA/NC border: www.propublica.org/article/segr...
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The Department of English at U of South Florida in Tampa is hiring multiple full-time, 9-month, non-TT Asst Profs of Instruction for FYC & PTC courses
Start date 7 August 7 2025
Due date: 15 Jan 2025
More details and link to apply
gems.usf.edu:4440/psc/gemspro-...
The Department of English at U of South Florida in Tampa is hiring multiple full-time, 9-month, non-TT Asst Profs of Instruction for FYC & PTC courses
Start date 7 August 7 2025
Due date: 15 Jan 2025
More details and link to apply
gems.usf.edu:4440/psc/gemspro-...
gems.usf.edu
November 18, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Please share!
The Department of English at U of South Florida in Tampa is hiring multiple full-time, 9-month, non-TT Asst Profs of Instruction for FYC & PTC courses
Start date 7 August 7 2025
Due date: 15 Jan 2025
More details and link to apply
gems.usf.edu:4440/psc/gemspro-...
The Department of English at U of South Florida in Tampa is hiring multiple full-time, 9-month, non-TT Asst Profs of Instruction for FYC & PTC courses
Start date 7 August 7 2025
Due date: 15 Jan 2025
More details and link to apply
gems.usf.edu:4440/psc/gemspro-...
This type of "refusals" have their own flavor - they make us feel part of a community of scholars who understand the dangers of GenAI - yet GenAI is here to stay in our classrooms whether we like it or not. refusinggenai.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies
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refusinggenai.wordpress.com
November 16, 2024 at 6:02 PM
This type of "refusals" have their own flavor - they make us feel part of a community of scholars who understand the dangers of GenAI - yet GenAI is here to stay in our classrooms whether we like it or not. refusinggenai.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
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Russia did exactly this to HRC in 2016, aiming to suppress her vote, and probably did. Musk no doubt did suppress Harris voting as well with these demotivation techniques. This should be illegal.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Inside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Kamala Harris voters
A multi-pronged dark money effort by advisers to Elon Musk targeted liberals, Jews, Muslims and Black voters with ads that were not quite what they seemed.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Russia did exactly this to HRC in 2016, aiming to suppress her vote, and probably did. Musk no doubt did suppress Harris voting as well with these demotivation techniques. This should be illegal.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Two children died due to improper mixing of the vaccine. RFK went to Samoa to push an anti-vax narrative. After the vaccination rate plummeted, tens of thousands of children contracted measles.
83 DIED.
RFK has blood on his hands, and he is being put in a position make it far, far worse.
83 DIED.
RFK has blood on his hands, and he is being put in a position make it far, far worse.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vax fakery was tied to a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa. And he lied about it. As head of HHS, he could do much worse here.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How RFK Jr. Falsely Denied His Connection to a Deadly Measles Outbreak in Samoa
He also championed a Samoan anti-vaxxer tied to the 2019 lethal eruption that killed scores of children.
www.motherjones.com
November 15, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Two children died due to improper mixing of the vaccine. RFK went to Samoa to push an anti-vax narrative. After the vaccination rate plummeted, tens of thousands of children contracted measles.
83 DIED.
RFK has blood on his hands, and he is being put in a position make it far, far worse.
83 DIED.
RFK has blood on his hands, and he is being put in a position make it far, far worse.
