I was glad to come across this profile of Jean Shepherd and learn that there was much more to the guy than merely writing “A Christmas Story.” Also, there’s a Slate piece written by Donald Fagen of Steely Dan.
-
Recent Posts
- Funny, how, now that I’m teaching, I’m supposed to have ideas about what’s best for my students
- There’s a tendency to be profound, or to want to seem profound
- I haven’t been on a first date in over a year
- Nobody owes an explanation of one’s own life to anyone else
- Minds live in a lot of places, and minds don’t need tenure, either
Top Posts & Pages
- Fiction link: Very short stories by Lydia Davis
- The Fuggers, and the Habsburgs' Non-Branching Family Tree
- 'Word World' and the problem of plurals
- Lawyer-vanity plates
- Bizzy! Bizzy! Bizzy!: Metaphysical Implications of "Frosty the Snowman"
- A philosophy of ghosts: How the scary unreal illuminates the real
- Link: Actress Leighton Meester on Curley's wife
- 'That's a damn story': Considering To Kill a Mockingbird after visiting Monroeville
- I'm interested in finding an approach (no doubt there can be many) to publishing journals
Archives
Categories
- 'Teachings' books
- Comic silliness
- Fiction
- Flagg Township
- From the journals
- From the pocket pages
- Gratuitous self-promotion
- Hagemann family
- Illinois
- Image and idea
- Links
- Music
- Nonfiction
- ogle county
- ogle county history
- Ogle County Poet Laureate
- Philosophy
- Photos
- Poems
- Rochelle
- Teaching
- Teaching writing
- Thought of the Day
- Transcribed from life
- Uncategorized
- Visual art
- Writing
Meta
