Category Archives: Academia

Why Are Were Artists Poor?

Posted on 28 August 2009 by

[x-posted at The Rumpus] Reading Jeremy Hatch’s post on Andrew Keen and starving artists, I couldn’t help but think of Joel Barlow (1754-1812). Barlow was a poet, one of the Connecticut Wits, to be precise, so my mental leap probably … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Sam Anderson

Posted on 29 July 2009 by

[The Rumpus] Over at The Rumpus, I’ve got a long interview with Sam Anderson, the book critic at New York magazine. He had a lot of interesting things to say about reading and reviewing, online and off, so check it … Continue reading →

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Prepreprofessionalism

Posted on 28 July 2009 by

The academic journal College Literature just published my essay on applying to grad school. You can read it here on Project MUSE, or visit this site’s archive for an open-access .pdf. As in most academic publishing, this took positively forever … Continue reading →

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R.I.P., D.F.W.

Posted on 16 September 2008 by

[x-posted at PopMatters] The Internet is alight with the news of David Foster Wallace’s suicide. This is hitting me hard, not only because of Wallace’s youth, talent, and unfinished business, but because of my sense that he was not the … Continue reading →

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