“This all looks very good, Mr. Epping,” said the worn man in the similarly worn brown leather chair as the tip of his nose peaked the sheet of paper Jackson…
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Systemic Racism for the Individual
by Guest Contributor October 12, 2020“Calling me a racist pissed me off! I have taught black and brown underprivileged men at Riker’s!” “You should be writing how you can protect me as a woman!” “Just…
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What Does it Mean to Search? Whiteness, Cisness, and the Canon: A (Transgenre) Literacy Narrative
by Guest Contributor April 12, 2018Dear _______, I started reading forever ago. I’m not interested in the why, my longing for words almost aquatic—tangled in me like swamp root. Instead, I’m trying to write a…
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Revisiting Sherry Ortner through the Gates of Central Park
by Guest Contributor November 2, 2017At the beginning of the summer I made a pact with my nine-year-old son: We would spend his non-camp days hiking, searching for waterfalls hidden in the woods and parks…
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Academy Gothic by James Tate Hill
by Lavinia Ludlow July 1, 2016Academy Gothic by James Tate Hill Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2015 248 pages – Southeast Missouri State / Amazon James Tate Hill’s Academy Gothic is a contemporary murder mystery laden with…
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Getting Schooled by Garret Keizer
by John Yohe March 3, 2015Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher by Garret Keizer Metropolitan Books (Macmillan), 2014 320 pages – Macmillan / Amazon In 2011, Garret Keizer published an article in Harper’s…
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The Nutty Professor
by Joseph Houlihan February 25, 2015The campus novel is generally a stage for the careering intrigues of petit bourgeoisie; often to hilarious and devastating ends (Stoner, Pnin, The Groves of Academe). Yet every once and…
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IS IT A COMMUNITY OR A COMPOUND? IS IT A STATUE OR IS IT SECRETLY ALIVE?: A Review of Stephanie Young’s URSULA or UNIVERSITY
by Carrie Lorig January 13, 2015URSULA or UNIVERSITY by Stephanie Young Krupskaya Books, 2013 188 pages – SPD / Amazon 1. “Feminization of the problem of lived time” -Myung Mi Kim. 2. I started writing…