You should use section headings, I am told. Your entire manuscript is a set of five-page essays, divided into chapters that are subdivided into sections. Thinking from the ground up, that is a set of five-page essays. At one per week for 50 weeks that is five chapters of ten sections each, for example. This … More How to write books
What I want to say to someone who, when I said I had finished my essay in a triumphant six-hour final stretch, said I should not have written for that long and should have read Boice: I suppose that if you had a lot of free time in college and graduate school, and you had … More Another anti-Boicean post
1. I am visiting my father. My brother is also there, with pets. He has a Dachshund in a full body harness, to carry onto the plane like a bag. The dog enjoys swooping up and down. His cat is a white china cat with blue tabby stripes. This was for transportation on the plane. … More Dreams
I need this book and they have it at LSU. Axé.
I have 40 essays for Spanish 3 right here that were supposed to be hand written, skipping lines, and turned in with a marked-up draft and the notes that went into making the draft. Several did not follow those instructions at all, and only one of the 40 followed the spirit of those instructions. Of … More 2015
As a fond mother, when the day is o’er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor, Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted By promises of others in their stead, Which, though … More Nature
Here it is. Obviously, I must find out whether any of these people have found any actual plaçage contracts. And be re-familiarize myself with their discussions now that I have been convinced that the practice is a myth. Also, there is a 2011 book, Southscapes, that takes plaçage as real and cites references to it … More A plaçage bibliography without Aslakson or Clark
La guitarra … Dejó al borracho en su coche, dejó el cabaret sombrío, donde se muere de frío, noche tras noche, y alzó la cabeza fina, universal y cubana, sin opio, ni mariguana, ni cocaína. … Cógela tú, guitarrero, límpiale de alcohol la boca, y en esa guitarra, toca tu son entero. El son del … More El son entero
It really was. And I have just ordered Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas and it discusses the Americas — both of them — and Haiti; Frederick Douglass apparently said he was more Haitian than North American, and Afro-Latin Americans were dis-identifying from Blackness so as to join the nation … More On Latin America, (cosmopolitan) vanguard of the nineteenth century
Here is interesting commentary on Lucía y el sexo which American reviewers seemed to take as Europorn with an all too challenging plot. It is hardly and I have not paid enough attention to Julio Medem. Axé.
