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Cherchez la faim
Posted on February 25, 2014 37 Comments
There is so little time to do anything frivolous these days. One thing I miss is listening to NPR. When I visit my relatives in North Carolina, I stay with Annabelle’s parents, two college professors to whom I am related on my mother’s side. They have two big-screen TVs but those are disconnected most of […]
The great obscurian novel
Posted on October 30, 2013 24 Comments
I just got this email from Word Press: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/nanowrimo-2013/ I skimmed it as I usually do with their posts, just to find out if it was anything earth-shattering. Have you seen this? It invites us to spend November writing the great American, or whatever, novel. The challenge is to write every day and make it […]
Just imagine
Posted on October 5, 2013 20 Comments
A study came out recently that has a lot of my colleagues buzzing. Here are two articles you might find interesting: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/i-know-how-youre-feeling-i-read-chekhov/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131004&_r=0 http://qz.com/130953/its-official-reading-literary-fiction-makes-you-a-better-person/#! I wonder about the validity of relying too much on one study but based on my own understanding their conclusions make sense. In sum, their research indicates that people who read good […]
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