The new season of House of Cards was released on Valentine’s Day, marking the return of the duplicitous Frank Underwood on his quest for power. In the…
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The Merits of Being Awful
Lit magazines are the heart of collegiate writing, especially for creative writers. Where else will self-conscious english majors be able to get their writing published? Getting published…
On Friday, April 26 the University of Illinois-Chicago is hosting Composition Matters, a symposium with a lineup of composition scholars so great it rivals the ’95-’96 Bulls…
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Who Likes Free Grad School?
Writers, writing teachers, and aspiring comp/rhet theorists: if you’re looking to get your Master’s degree sometime soon, then make sure you look into applying for a graduate…
“The best writing teachers are writers themselves,” argues Cindy O’Donnell-Allen in the Atlantic. As she looks at the widely studied curriculum overhaul at New Dorp High School…
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The Art of Revision
I am a writer. I write — and up until last year, I absolutely, under no circumstances, did not re-write.
In 1997, geographer Erik Swyngedouw challenged the way that scholars viewed globalization with the publication of “Neither Global nor Local: ‘Glocalization’ and the Politics of Scale.” The…
Beyond the typographical errors (or stylistic choices? Hey, he’s following his own tip number 13.) of Jack Kerouac’s “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose” lie gems of…
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To Tag, or Not to Tag
There has been a great evolution in my mind concerning the concept of graffiti. When young, I associated it with a disrespectful ugliness that surfaced on trips…
Some have appropriated unto the process of writing a somewhat romantic picture. We imagine our favorite writers hunched over desks, grumbling to themselves through sips of whiskey…