Four out of five sections are finished and I just want to get this manuscript out. To that end I am (a) in a writing binge that could not sustain a book or even a different kind of article, but is good for this; and (b) “just writing,” in the way I understand this (like … More The notes for my piece, updating daily…
Axé.
Now my piece is definitely finished, and I do like it. Of course it could take another form but I like this form, too, and I want to publish this version, not hold it until I have something longer, or more lasting than bronze. I thought I had made a decision but my most recent … More That Quandary
I have solved my manuscript problem and the solution is very powerful. I am brilliant. This is why people fear me — I can get things done. I have also gotten someone into graduate school this week, fully funded, no mean feat from here, so I am jumping, running, winning. I have remembered another technique … More Machiavellian
I want to apply for an NEH Summer Stipend for 2014. I can argue that my project fits into their Bridging Cultures program, and all. It has a funding ratio of 8% and that is from among people who are actually allowed to apply, after applying to apply. Our university can nominate two people. In the … More This is the sort of thing
I I am walking the floor over this issue and I realize I have done it before … long ago, after the first time I had ever spoken up in a faculty meeting. It is the same, nothing ever changes. It was in a small apartment in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, of this man I was seeing. … More Walking the floor / Tennessee border
I know, I am obsessed, I want this to crystallize just enough and I want to send it somewhere. I have not fully figured out where to send it, so I keep fiddling with it. I want it out. Since I resigned from that committee I have become acutely aware of all the shock and … More Meilleur encore
Considering various comments on drafts, material has been added and also cut from this text. The title has been changed to embrace broader issues, and changed back. I am tired of working on it now and I notice that additional material I am not sure it is useful or wise to publish it in the … More In which I have to stop working on this
…is that last year when there was conservative community outcry against the LGBT Studies program, the university president published a very good response. The academic senate passed a resolution supporting this letter and commending the president for having written it. The following year, under new leadership, the senate, apparently at the direction of some other … More Another point to be made
This may be one of those essays that seem more intelligent than they are because the stiltedness of the non-native Spanish becomes poetic. Still, I liked it. It begins by talking about the value given to originality and authenticity in art. The idea of authenticity leads to a consideration of origins and originality, says my … More Sobre la autenticidad
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