Maybe you, too, read the short story “The Lady or the Tiger”, by Frank Stockton, in middle or high school. If you didn’t, read it now, because I’m going to spoil it in the next paragraph.
While discussing Lewis Wolpert’s Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (2006) with my suitemate last week, she made an interesting point. As I complained about the oversimplification of various philosophical and logical points, she said, reasonably, “Well, these books aren’t written for us.” What she meant was that popular science books…
I liked the movie Reservoir Dogs. This doesn’t seem important, but it will be. So for those of you who, like me, have too much to do all day and not enough willpower to do it, websites like FML can be an excellent tool of procrastination.
Hooray! Internet again! The Highlights Whole Novel Workshop was an amazing experience, and much thanks goes out to the instructors and the conferees, who’ve put me back on track with my MS Bad Light (sample chapters still under revision, but the pitch is up on my “Books” page). And New…
Since I’m going to be out of the country and possibly without Internet for a couple weeks, I decided to post early. Here’s the follow-up to last week. I hope to get something posted next week sometime, but, if not, see you Sunday, June 28! For a lot of people,…
The first thing you learn when you’re a drama major is that people consider your field the lowest branch of academia. “Even” a drama student would know this; or seriously? Where do you plan to work with that degree – McDonald’s? But as any drama student who cares can tell…
I think it’s long enough past the actual university school year that I can post something like this. Now, I’ve been marking essays for just three years, but I’ve been writing them for a lot longer, and, thing is, it wasn’t until I started marking papers that I really understood…
Because why would I ever get tired of rambling on about my opinions instead of doing actual work?
Here’s the thing about me and characters from plays: I don’t care about them. Not really. Now, I love plays, and believe me, when I watch one, if there’s a character who’s particularly cool or hateful or attractive, I’m certainly rooting for them or interested in them or hoping they’ll…