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2018
- Mar 26, 2018 Why are project proposals so hard to write?
- Mar 25, 2018 Dissertation Dilemma: The 22nd Century Novel
- Feb 23, 2018 Here Are My 20 Lines for the Past Few Days
- Feb 19, 2018 Here Are My 20 Lines for Today
- Feb 16, 2018 Dissertation Riddle: What do Shipwrecks, Pirates, and House Fires Have in Common?
- Feb 15, 2018 Dissertation Bibliography
- Feb 14, 2018 Dissertation Proposal: The History of Beauty and the Beast
- Feb 12, 2018 Wives & Daughters
- Feb 11, 2018 "the Jewish voice; . . . the Jewish laugh"
- Feb 10, 2018 "genius or not"
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2016
- Jul 28, 2016 Jealousy, The Unnameable, and Lo-lee-ta
- Jul 22, 2016 The Dead
- Jul 22, 2016 Streams-of-subconsciousness
- Jul 22, 2016 "Bear with me."
- Jul 17, 2016 Virtue, and the Doctor's Wife, Revisited
- Jul 16, 2016 The Royal Ball: A Site of Female Protagonists' Psychosocial Development
- Jul 15, 2016 Dennis Cooper v. the Goliath that is Google
- Jul 14, 2016 Dogs and Horses and a Tortoise -- Oh My!
- Jul 12, 2016 Ruined by Reading (Romance Novels)
- Jul 12, 2016 Confessions
- Jul 11, 2016 Tristram and Gregor
- Jun 24, 2016 Goodnight Moon; Tender Buttons; and, now, Nox
- Jun 22, 2016 Maria, Jemima, Minerva, Madame Bovary (x3), Cleis (x2), and the Minyades
- Jun 18, 2016 Pamela Shamela
- Jun 6, 2016 In Sickness and In Health: The Doctor's Wife . . . or Mother?
- May 27, 2016 Disorder Ordered in The Decameron; Order Disordered in The Canterbury Tales
- May 24, 2016 The Wife of Bath (Happily) and the Princesse de Cleves (Miserably), Ever After
- May 9, 2016 Liminality Revisited
- Apr 13, 2016 Displaced, Erased, and Re-placed: Reframing Bodies in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
- Mar 19, 2016 Sappho: "Who ever desires what is not gone?"
- Mar 19, 2016 The Book of Job: "Curse God and die!"
- Mar 16, 2016 The Hermeneutic Problem
- Mar 5, 2016 The Odyssey: Hermes, in medias res
- Mar 1, 2016 How, if at all, can we write the contemporary?
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2015
- Nov 20, 2015 The Sandman, Vols. 4, 5, 7, 9
- Nov 14, 2015 Frankenstein (1818): "What was I?"
- Nov 12, 2015 PhD Exams Problematic: Liminality and Narrativity
- Nov 11, 2015 PhD Exam Reading Lists
- Jul 20, 2015 Because Mary Ruefle says she's convinced the first lyric poem was witness to the moon and that the moon was witness to the event.
- Jul 4, 2015 Fit Into Me
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2014
- Nov 19, 2014 What is "experimental fiction"? Or "innovative"? Why does it matter?
- Oct 27, 2014 Liminality, Identity, and Gratitude
- Oct 26, 2014 And it's back to the drawing board. Again.
- Oct 26, 2014 Liminality and the Fantastic in Psychotopographic Heterotopias
- Oct 25, 2014 If, after a night spent running for your life, you woke in the forest and saw this key, would you reach up and take it?
- Oct 18, 2014 The only thing I can think of is heartbreak.
- Oct 16, 2014 "fraught with the highest bliss"
- May 19, 2014 Writing Process Literary Blog Hop
- Jan 21, 2014 some kind of miracle
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2013
- Oct 1, 2013 The Other Things We Do
- Aug 3, 2013 Wild Thing
- May 15, 2013 "Here’s to everyone who has ever understood what it means to be small."
- Jan 3, 2013 The Next Big Thing Blog Hop
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2012
- Oct 29, 2012 A Long Overdue Update During Hurricane Sandy
- Mar 30, 2012 The Kindergarten Teacher
- Feb 12, 2012 "A throbbing. A certain pulsing."
- Jan 11, 2012 "I can steal her heart like a bird's egg."
- Jan 9, 2012 "It resonates like a haunting postcard from someone else's life."
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2011
- Aug 30, 2011 "articulate why this collection matters, what makes it important"
- Aug 17, 2011 "Get your shit together. . . . I have complete confidence in you."
- Mar 8, 2011 "description is an activity in which the writer can begin to resolve the irreconcilability of the written word and the unwritten world"
- Feb 18, 2011 "we are better than dead / in that we are this: breasts, soles, heels, lips."
- Feb 8, 2011 "Molly likes to pretend AWP is her everyday life, like she just walked into a bar and randomly ran into all her writer friends, like AWP is its own city and that city is where we live."
- Feb 6, 2011 The highlight of this year's AWP: "Pie on a pancake."
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2010
- Dec 27, 2010 "Our lives were kinder then . . ."
- Dec 25, 2010 "what with the skirts and dresses and aprons billowing out on the roofs and fire escapes and balconies, and all of the heads hanging out of the windows, and Aunt Miel's life utterly exposed"
- Dec 24, 2010 "According to Rowling, Hedwig's life represents Harry's innocence."
- Dec 23, 2010 "My mother loved diamonds, wore them everywhere, collected them the way other people collect crystal unicorns, or those weird ceramic Japanese cats with the one paw in the air."
- Dec 18, 2010 "And she had announced to everyone that they should call or visit to say goodbye, because I would soon die."
- Nov 14, 2010 "He wondered just what kind of child-kingdom it was that he was about to destroy"
- Nov 5, 2010 "Late at night when everyone else is sleeping, that’s when . . . I write and I write and I write and I write."
- Oct 31, 2010 "Almost everyone wants to be the lover."
- Oct 30, 2010 "In sum, we would be delighted to see the National Book Foundation change its National Book Award guidelines to allow retellings of fairy tales, folk tales, and myths."
- Oct 19, 2010 "Like a long ribbon it fell and, when it wet you, froze you."
- Oct 6, 2010 Glamour, drama, style, and a "reading is a performance whether we like it or not."
- Oct 4, 2010 "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
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