Weekly Reader

  • The Quarterly Conversation reviews Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star, which I read recently.
  • The Av Club on Curtis Mayfield’s fantastic first album Curtis.
  • Jill Walker Rettberg’s tour of the new Electronic Literature Knowledge Base.
  • danah boyd on “digital self harm” as a proactive measure. I have worked with young people long enough to know this is not surprising at all.
  • I know it is Maxim, but this oral history of The Wire is awesome.

    • Weekly Reader 4-23-12

  • The AV Club on what makes a good book to film adaptation. My lit218 class is going to use this article to frame their final paper…project.
  • I have been thinking a lot lately about making a digital edition.
  • An excellent review, deeply critical, from Al Jazeera of Rachel Maddow’s new book. Why do “liberals” become so blood thirsty and fine with the Military Industrial Complex when a Democrat is President?

    • Weekly Reader 3-26-12

    With the release of the cinematic adaptation of The Hunger Games, and my student’s interest and high praise for the film, I thought I could highlight some of what I am reading about it lately.