06 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Downfall

“You’re six miles up, alone and falling without a parachute. Though the odds are long, a small number of people have found themselves in similar situations—and lived to tell the tale.” Here’s some advice from Popular Mechanics, at 120 miles per hour. In British Columbia, Victoria’s Poet Laureate makes the mistake of venting her indignation [...]

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01 November 2009 ~ 3 Comments

Play to Return

While there are many ambitious histories of reading (example / example / example), I have never come across a focused study of re-reading [UPDATE: Jason Mittell of JustTV passes along this excellent recommendation].  But academics re-read all the time.  To prepare classes, I’m often taking a second (or tenth) look at The Epic of Gilgamesh, [...]

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