I was born already tired of hearing about Tillie Olsen because in graduate school, the older students would insist she be included on every woman related syllabus, and they evinced some sort of secret knowledge that she was the answer (she was always to be assigned as the final reading in the course, the period). … More Tillie Olsen
Pamela Daniels’ piece, like many others in the book of which it is a part focuses on the effects of internalized gender roles and broad societal pressures which, together, have particular, constraining, and often unseen (or difficult to discern) influence on the attitudes of women toward themselves as workers and thus, their work. Several pieces … More “Not Proprietors, but Guests (In My Inner World)” […A Psychoanalytic Love Song]
Axé.
The real scandal around the endowment by the Koch brothers of two chairs at Florida State University is that state universities now have to seek such outside money and accept strings. The reason they have to do so is that many state legislatures have chosen not to have state universities any more. At many ‘state … More Juan Cole
A nadie le importa Milton Wolff ni el Morganza Spillway, cosa que me extraña a mí — que si fuera esto un huracán me estarían mirando todos. But if you would like, you can watch the whole town of Butte LaRose go down right here. Meanwhile, in graduate school and beyond we were constantly having … More On Seriousness
There’s a flood warning in Maringouin, y’all. The Morganza Spillway is being opened, because the levees cannot hold. I do miss my home on Dumaine Street, and everything there is to miss about life before the storm. Axé.
Personne n’a répondu à mon article brillant sur Milton Wolff, donc je me tais; c’est-à-dire que je fais grève. Je suis devenue Julianne de Norwich†, dont la fête est aujourd’hui dans l’église universelle; je ne vous en raconterai rien. Je fais en même temps une fête parallèle pour le vendredi 13, car je suis aussi démon; … More Julian of Norwich
11:04 PM in the Crescent City, and the river is going to rise. Despite this distraction we are closing in on the answer to our general question. You have to do what you want to, but the problem in our day was that women were not to think of what they wanted to do. Rather, … More On Doing What You Want To
Milton Wolff’s 2008 obituary, cut out from Le Monde, was sent to our family and is now one of the tattered pieces of paper I am clearing out. He is very striking in the 1938 Robert Capa photograph that accompanies this obituary (5. II.08, by Robert S. Coale, p. 23). Coale says this photograph immortalized … More Milton Wolff
I have heard this many times, but in fact I do believe I am unlike the others. Neither the management of time, nor of money, nor of “impulses” is difficult for me. Most advice on life does not apply to me because it is about these three topics. I am unlike some others, too, in … More “Do Not Think You Are Not Like the Others”
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