Secret Agent – Ainda estou aqui – For 340: authors around Cesarco Eglin: Miriam Reyes (Sardina is what Eglin has translated) Look at these poems in Plume Lara Dopazo Ruibal AND I need Saguaro by Cesarco Eglin Axé.

9.0 a 10: Sobresaliente / Excelente 7.0 a 8.9: Bueno / Notable / Muy bueno 5.0 a 6.9 (o de 4.0 a 5.9 según el país): Aprobado / Suficiente So I could do something like this, on the principle of only failing people who don’t finish. It makes grades high enough to have enough people … More Grading scales

So: Sir Walter Scott, the European creator of historical novels saw history as a continuum on which they could trace the roots of their identity, but Latin American writers saw Independence as a break with history, and a moment in which a new identity must be forged This creates historiographical problems for the novel. In … More Lee Skinner 1999 on the historical novel

My error is giving classes that are too intellectually challenging, but I seem not to be able to correct it. My main error was Reeducation. Had I not made that call, I feel, everything would have been different. Maybe this is an illusion, there were other errors, but all of them had to do with … More Errors

Rush, press yourself, give yourself 15-25 minutes only. Write, don’t meditate; writing is thinking, so think by writing. These are instructions for people who have never written anything. Sure, you should start, and sure, something can be done in a short amount of time. But limiting yourself in this way is damaging, and pressing yourself … More Bad writing advice, and bad general advice

Read academic journals, feel excited to be off the terrible campus and back into reality; plan interesting weekends at research libraries, museums, beaches. Exult in being in off the terrible campus, take walks, plan interesting weekends in cultural venues and at beaches, read in field and new field, study. Then: Reeducation, and finally, three more … More What you did coming home in the evening from your assistant professor jobs