Wrote about Joseph McElroy’s masterpiece, Women and Men, for The Collidescope. Hoping that more university American lit classes begin to include this monumental work on their syllabi. @watrwake @dzancbooks https://t.co/VhMZuqeonE
@Egangoonsquad In the final pages of TCH, you write that pure knowledge void of story is just that: info. Yet, that last narrative contains a ton of extra info. Because it’s all bookended by a key memory, is your message that it’s up to us to find meaning in modern info overload?
Just taught a class of 20 incoming freshmen
During the discussion I asked them: "How many books have you read in the past year?"
Every single one of them said "zero"
We have a major problem
@TheLuisPanini Awesome. Just recently picked up a copy of the newer Dzanc Books edition for (somehow) a really good price. Liking it so far but I think it’s the hardest contemporary novel I’ve read.
Do diversity trainings work? Are there alternatives? Join us as we explore these questions in depth at our upcoming panel conversations on June 3 and 9. Find more information and register here. @Musa_alGharbi@JosephGuar@GarrettJohnson@irakresh