Working on the syllabus for my "Media and Culture" class on the history and future of the book.
I’m spending a few days visiting my parents in Northern Virginia.
Words, words, words. With the advent of the stream of consciousness in twentieth-century literature, it has come to seem that…
A Google self-study found that its own most successful employees had soft skills, such as mentoring ability, empathy, and critical…
Instead of flagging links to questionable news items, Facebook will instead hide them. Which is nice, but it still means…
"Dammit Mom, I'm a daughter, not a theoretician!" -- the girl, responding to a pointed rhetorical question. Know Your Meme
No spoilers here. (I managed to avoid all spoilers, and hadn’t even seen the trailer. I did see still pics…
In the bird-flight simulator at the Pittsburgh Aviary, the girl twists and turns, careening around buildings, dive-bombing alleyways, and comes…