Donald Kaczvinsky

Emeritus Professor of English and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Louisiana Tech University

[Donald Kaczvinsky @dkaczv]

My review of Graham Swift’s new collection of short stories, published in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
@worldlittoday
#contemporary

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[Louisiana Tech University @LATech]

We are proud to announce the creation of the Honors College at Louisiana Tech, a new collective of programs unified under the Honors banner and housed in the history-rich University Hall.

#EverLoyalBe
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[Donald Kaczvinsky @dkaczv]

@LATech Congratulations! This is long overdue and will be a great asset to the Tech campus!

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@DrBryanZygmont Never. I may buy one of his books.

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@DrBryanZygmont Sorry, but I’m pulling for Rushdie, but happy to hear McEwan won.

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@LATech @LATechCOES Congratulations, Hish! Enjoy retirement (I do) and good luck with your address.

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@DrBryanZygmont Like father, like son.

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Or I could be at work. #retired

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@DrBryanZygmont Third chapter is some of the best writing in American literature.

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@DrBryanZygmont @MSM_LiberalArt @MSMU Nice job on the toast!—Congratulations on your first full year as Dean! And may the wind be at your back my friend!

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@DrBryanZygmont @MSM_LiberalArt @MSMU A good decision by @MSMU and you!

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A great basketball player and even better man died today: Willis Reed, Captain of the NY Knicks. I can still remember him on TV, limping onto the court for Game 7 of the 1970 NBA championship. I met him only once during my time in LA. He was very gracious. RIP Captain. #Knicks

[Donald Kaczvinsky @dkaczv]

I write it out in a verse—
MacDonagh and MacBride   
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:   
A terrible beauty is born.
—W. B. Yeats—

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! #StPatrickDay

[Donald Kaczvinsky @dkaczv]

I taught my last class one year ago today. It was a course on Post WWII British lit, starting with Auden’s “Sept 1, 1939.” By the end I realized none of my students had actually lived a single day in the 20th century. The next day the Russians invaded Ukraine.

[Donald Kaczvinsky @dkaczv]

. . . using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning. Happy Birthday, James Joyce! Born Feb. 2, 1882 #JamesJoyce

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@LaTechPrescott A good man and a good fan!

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@erufleth Glad to be retired. I think I’ll just read Auden or Shakespeare on my own. Good luck.

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@erufleth Very good newsletter! Great to see all the exciting things happening in SLL!

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Congrats to James Clawson! Fellow Durrellian and Renaissance scholar!

[Ernest Rufleth @erufleth]

Grambling State English faculty awarded best article of the year in Renaissance and Reformation journal https://t.co/32ll3ImtBq via @ktbs

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@erufleth @LATech Loved watching that tree turn color in the fall. Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness.