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• School’s Just About out for the Summer

  

  Finishing up a particularly rough semester. Spending the last few days finishing up student publication editing as well as grading portfolios. Still have a few... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Palahniuk Documentary

  

  Planning a lecture on Fight Club and its dystopian themes. Spending time watching this 2003 Palahniuk documentary/video thing called Postcards from the Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Recuerdos-memories: Latino Experience in the Land of Lincoln

  

  Lincoln Presidential Library hosting discussion of immigrant experiences, followed by food and musicFrom Swedes in the 1840s to southern African-Americans in th... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Rereading Mark Richard’s Strays

  

  This afternoon I’m rereading Mark Richard‘s “Strays” for my Lit 150 class:“Uncle trash rakes everything my brother and I owned into the pillowcases off our bed... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Margaret Atwood’s the Handmaid’s Tale

  

  Prepping to discuss Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale tomorrow in my Lit 111 course. We’ll discuss more dystopian elements, feminism and watch some... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Tom Spanbauer and Literary Minimalism

  Preparing for Lit 150 and discussion of Amy Hempel’s stories “The Cemetary Where Al Jolson is Buried” and “The Harvest”. This morning I’m reviewing Tom... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Benjamin Alire Sáenz Wins 2013 Pen/faulkner Award for Fiction

  I’m looking forward to reading this award winning book by Benjamin Alire Sáenz.Great interview here: “An award like this isn’t ever just for the person that... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Representations of Columbus

  

  Columbus owes Washington Irving quite a bit. Also his portrait/face has never been authenticated. In fact, Charles Patrick Daly calls this painting from 1592... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Pop Culture as History and Christopher Columbus

  

  Prepping a lecture on Howard Zinn A People’s History of the United States, post-strucuralist analysis and Christopher Columbus. But I’m lazy and probably going... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Afternoon with Argument/research Papers

  

  Spending time this afternoon with a large stack of composition argument/research papers. I’ve found no way to make the process easier for me other than to... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• i Am a Visitor in Your World Documentary

  On Tuesday I had the fortune of attending a private screening of the inspirational documentary film I am a Visitor in Your World . Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Quick Review: Orwell’s Down and out in Paris and London

  

  Drafting and revising semi-orphaned novel project but had some time to finish reading Orwell’s memoir/nonfiction/autobiographical novel about a young writer’s... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Spring Break and Being Flynn

  Spending time with Nick Flynn’s book and also watching some clips from the adaptation: “We all need to create the story that will make sense of our lives. Make... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• and Even More Simpsons’ a Clockwork Orange Clips

  

  I think I’m most surprised at the Bart/cupcakes clip. And I guess I should be specific and say these are Stanley Kubrick A Clockwork Orange references and not... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Sid Vicious and the Satirical Aspects of Postmodernism

  In preparation for A Clockwork Orange discussions in Lit 111, today we talked about the satirical aspects of postmodernism: Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Luis Alberto Urrea’s the Hummingbird’s Daughter and Queen of America

  

  I first read the short fiction of Luis Alberto Urrea in graduate school. The discovery of a prolific Latino author whose work moves so adeptly from English to... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Frank Darabont, Blade Runner and Needless Qualifiers

  Today in Lit 150 we are discussing needless qualifiers. I like the Frank Darabont/Tears in Rain soliloquy example from Blade Runner Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Rudolfo Anaya Interview

  

  Spending time this afternoon watching Rudolfo Anaya interview on the new adaptation of his book and also his thoughts on Latino representation in US politics an... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Gardner’s Fat City

  

  Spending time today rereading Fat City by Leonard Gardner. Hope I can find the detail and the nuance in my Huerfanos project:“Yeah, I was in a bar yesterday,... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Today in Lit 150 We Are Beginning with This Clip from The...

  Today in Lit 150 we are beginning with this clip from the Todd Solondz film Storytelling. I like Solondz’ films and first saw this at Oregon State. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING