Marie Drews, whom you probably know if you know me (if not, you will eventually), has a release date for her coedited book w/ Monika Elbert: October 27. Marie will have a chapter in there somewhere. Get your order in now to avoid disappointment!

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Anyone have a subscription to the Chronicle of Higher Education? I’d like to get a copy of this short piece:
A Proposal: Get Serious About the Foreign-Language Requirement
By EDWARD M. WHITE
Online access to the Chronicle is $72/yr. Sheesh! I pay less for contact lenses.
EDIT: Got it.

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Ah, nice. The blog for the Institute of the Future of the Book has acknowledged a fan vid for the Grandaddy song “Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)”—a clip that I just happen to be showing in my PCA/ACA panel this March. This piece, programmed entirely on a 1979 Apple, was eventually adopted by Grandaddy as [...]

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We now have a website.
“Challenging Faith: Intersections of Belief and Doubt in Literature,
Composition, and the Profession”
A graduate conference hosted by the University of New Hampshire English Graduate Organization
March 7-8, 2008 • University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, US
Keynote speakers:
Patricia Bizzell, College of the Holy Cross
Sharon O’Dair, University of Alabama
and a reading by Meredith Hall, University [...]

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December 7! Happy birthday, Brian Futter.
I’ve been going to class since 1981. That’s right: my time in the classroom spans 6 1/2 presidential terms. It predates Cal Ripken, Jr.’s consecutive game streak. It has a longer history than Metallica and Thriller. It’s older than Prince William.
So, I guess it’s significant that today I attended my [...]

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