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Alex-the-Churchmouse was kind enough to whip up banners for my three main classes this semester: and and Spiffy!

PopMatters recently ran my review of Oren Rudavsky’s brilliant 2006 movie (out on DVD in late 2007), The Treatment.  If you have any tolerance whatever for romantic comedies, then you will probably find something to like here.  If you find … Continue reading →

This week at Bookslut, I’ve posted a terrific interview with Laynie Browne, about her new book, The Scented Fox: Can you talk about the relationship between the work of form & time in Daily Sonnets (which you explicitly describe as … Continue reading →

Steve Jobs on why the Amazon Kindle doesn’t matter: Today he had a wide range of observations on the industry, including the Amazon Kindle book reader, which he said would go nowhere largely because Americans have stopped reading. “It doesn’t … Continue reading →

This is from Jess Nevins’s amazing A Blazing World: The Unofficial Companion to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II, which includes separate interviews with Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill.  It’s as if Moore is describing my nonmajors class this … Continue reading →

With the start of classes next week comes one of my 2 brand-new preps this semester: ENG 481: Digital Literary Studies, which is sort of an English-focused intro to humanities computing.  (Texts: Landow’s HyperText 3.0; Amerika’s Meta/Data, and Hayles’s Writing … Continue reading →

My first reaction to “war against boys” rhetoric is to roll my eyes a bit–somehow, the war on boys doesn’t seem to be eroding male privilege overall in America. But, since–as you may have heard–we have a 4-yr-old boy, I … Continue reading →

In general, I’ve been getting a lot of excited feedback about the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen class, which starts the 23rd.  Certainly I’m excited, but more than a few students have been getting in touch–more than 5 different students e-mailed … Continue reading →

For my Thursday post at Bookslut this week, I’ve got an interview with the astonishing Jennifer L. Knox about her new book, Drunk by Noon.  Here’s a taste: It’s obligatory, I think, to describe your poems’ humor as transgressive. What’s … Continue reading →

The PsychoSlut is very disappointed that no one had alerted him to these splendid-looking confections until just now.  (Thx, Taylor!) A bargain at ~$1.15/lollipop! (But why watermelon?)