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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Last Post of 2011

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AS YOU HAVE NO doubt noticed, I've pretty much stopped posting to TWR. Between my regular column for the San Francisco Chronicle 's ...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Three Cups of Tease? Greg Mortenson and the Fiction of Nonfiction

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"It's a beautiful story, and it's a lie." That's Jon Krakauer, noted author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Ai...
Friday, April 15, 2011

National Poetry Month: Your Questions Answered

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Here we are, midway through National Poetry Month, and so far, no posts from me about the best 30 days of the year. But, I know what you...
Friday, March 11, 2011

The 10 Greatest Poets Project: The Postmortem

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As surprised I was by the overwhelming response to my call for lists of the 10 greatest poets, I was even more taken by the lack of . . . fu...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

The 10 Greatest Poets: My List

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Who would have thought so many people would have so many strong opinions about poetic greatness? The hundreds of passionate, articulate, per...
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Friday, February 11, 2011

The Top 10 Poets: Who are the Greatest?

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Anthony Tommasini's fascinating project to identify the ten greatest composers has generated a shocking amount of publicity and an impr...
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Are Today's Students Really Getting Worse?

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SPRING SEMESTER CLASSES STARTED last week at the University of San Francisco , where I am on the faculty in the English Department. When pe...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Grading President Obama's State of the Union Speech

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FOR THE PAST FEW years, I've had great fun "grading" the texts of major political speeches using the same terminology and rub...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Palin, Crosshairs, and Semiotics

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CAN ONE DRAW A line between Sarah Palin's Crosshairs map and the shooting of twenty people in Tucson? Can political discourse be a cata...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Two Riveting Articles on Parenting

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SUNDAY'S OP-ED PIECE in The Wall Street Journal , " Why Chinese Mothers are Superior " by Amy Chua, was a magnet for diverse o...
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