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The Golden Notebooks: March 2015
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Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Monday, March 23, 2015. Family legend has it she once had five boys call her in a single night to ask her to the same dance - I can believe it looking at this picture. Happy birthday Baubs. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Kafka with a Happy Ending," in Open Letters Monthly. A Walker in the City" in Open Letters Monthly. Hitler's Bathtub" in Narrative. My Brooklyn," in Jacobin. I'm a te...
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The Golden Notebooks: August 2015
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Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Sunday, August 30, 2015. This Day in Feminist History: Anniversary of an Anniversary. On August 26th, 1920, the 19th amendment granting women's suffrage went into effect. It was the result of years of ceaseless toil:. And that was just a description of the second large wave of organizing, dated roughly to the founding of the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woma...
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The Golden Notebooks: May 2014
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Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Wednesday, May 21, 2014. The Intractability of Op-Ed Habits. The first paragraph of T he New York Times. S obituary for Vincent Harding. Scholar and co-author of Martin Luther King's brilliant and always-relevant anti-war speech, "Beyond Vietnam," refers to that speech as "polarizing" and notes that it "touched off a firestorm," condemned by Life Magazine and the NAACP. A Walker in...
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The Golden Notebooks: January 2015
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Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Wednesday, January 7, 2015. 8 Approaches to the Papers/Grading Dillemma. A while back, Rebecca Shuman had a piece on Slate. That proposed a simple solution: stop doing it. Stop giving papers, stop grading them. Like a lot of her pieces, it was a combination of a solid insight with broad generalization and pure- Slate. Of them in any class. And Rethinking Schools,. 2) Try to give st...
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2010 Show - Listen To Your Mother
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Listen To Your Mother. LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER. LTYM) was created by Stay-at-home-humorist Ann Imig. And premiered on Mother’s Day 2010 at The Barrymore Theatre. In Madison, Wisconsin. A blogger since 2008, Ann wanted her real-life community to experience the sharing of motherhood stories pervasive among women who write online. A former actress and Masters in Social Work, Ann hoped that by giving local writers. Might emerge: A celebration of the beauty, the beast, and the barely rested of motherhood. By po...
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The Golden Notebooks: December 2014
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Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Friday, December 12, 2014. Quick Hit: Baldwin and the Magazines. In a 1984 interview, Julius Lester asked Baldwin about his early days after the war as a writer publishing reviews and essays "for publications like The New Leader, The Nation, Commentary. Baldwin described the people he met through these publications as a kind of "Olympus":. And Nobody Knows my Name. Of course no rec...
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The Golden Notebooks: June 2015
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Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. In another life, like countless girls, I spent countless hours dreaming about ballet. I subscribed to Dance Magazine,. I sewed ribbons into shoes, and I watched a VHS tape we had of the Kirov's production of Swan Lake. Dozens of times. I read Gelsey Kirkland's memoir on the beach and cried. Nothing. What do you do? You dance. He made it sound sacred. Picturi...
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The Golden Notebooks: Marlene Sanders, 1931-2015
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Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Thursday, July 16, 2015. Marlene Sanders, 1931-2015. For my research reading Bonnie Dow's excellent " Watching Women's Liberation 1970. One point she convincingly makes is that coverage of the movement was not as uniformly hostile as we might expect. Part of this was due to women like Marlene Sanders. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Walker in the City" in Open Letters Monthly.
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The Golden Notebooks: Some Stupid Test
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Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Over the course of my sabbatical, I'm hoping to write a range of personal reflections on teaching. It's a hard topic to talk about. A lot of the formal scholarship is notoriously bad, which makes a lot of teachers hesitant to read about it, which is a shame. Last year, Michael Kinsley had a moving piece. When you work with students who didn't have that expe...
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The Golden Notebooks: September 2014
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Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Friday, September 5, 2014. You can see more about the challenge and other people's lists on Rebecca's blog. Professors’ Fall Semester Reading Challenge 2014 - checklist version. Any book for teaching/research 200 pp. Swapped for J. Baldwin, The Last Interview. J Baldwin Devil Finds Work. J Baldwin No Name in the Street. Book written by a friend, colleague or acquaintance. Erich Aue...