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Headphones, Croutons and Rhetoric

9 years ago

ME (with crouton tongs in one hand and salad plate in the other; cheerfully): Excuse me. HAPPY PERSON WEARING HEADPHONES…

Revision: Don’t just wash off your old sedan. Turn it into a pink monster truck or a solar-powered jetpack.

9 years ago

If your writing teacher lets you revise your first draft, don’t just submit a cleaner, less-beat-up version of the same…

Yes, Virginia, There Is a Journalist!

9 years ago

My new hero is NPR's Michael Oreskes. Scott Detrow had a terrific story today about Donald Trump's appearance at a…

Teaching “Bartleby the Scrivener”

9 years ago

I begin a class on "Bartleby the Scrivener": "Maybe I should do what Bartleby does. Maybe instead of teaching this…

Of Musicals, Teen Snark and Venn Diagrams

9 years ago

Scene: I am driving my teenagers to an audition. Girl: Peter, did you leave your sideburns? Boy: I didn't shave…

“Jewish priests do this. It’s where Leonard Nimoy got the Vulcan sign,” says the geekling, who is excited for Fiddler on the Roof auditions.

9 years ago

“What Teachers Make” Sequence of Assignments

9 years ago

Every year I rewatch Taylor Mali's passionate defense of "What Teachers Make." As part of a sequence of assignments designed…

The Rhetoric of Anthems and the Drama of Kneeling

9 years ago

I don't follow sports, so I don't feel fully equipped to comment on the issue, but when a friend raised…

World Trade Center Literary and Cultural Reflections (first posted September 11, 2001)

9 years ago

Not knowing what else to do, in the numb hours after the towers fell, I made a web page that…

Facebook’s Censorship Problem Is What Happens When a Tech Company Controls the News

9 years ago

Facebook makes editorial decisions that affect its presentation of news through its "news" (?) feed. But Facebook is in the…

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