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Monthly Archives: July 2009

There Would Be Broken Ribs

Thursday, July 16, 2009

When McSweeney’s Publishing released Nick Hornby’s Songbook, a collection of essays written to, from, or about songs, it did something brilliant. On its website McSweeneys.net, it invited its readership to submit personal essays on songs that had a lasting effect on them. It was brilliant because it allowed individuals to actively participate in the release [...]

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I am a Teacher

Thursday, July 9, 2009

At the beginning of my formal studies as a writer, I met a teacher – a college professor to be precise – who told me not to worry, that he wasn’t “one of those jealous teachers who holds his students back…” I thanked him as if it were a reflex, but about forty-seven seconds later [...]

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Ripped Off By Professors, Poets, and Writers

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

I’m a used book junkie, so whenever I’m in a town that has such an establishment, not overrun with shelves upon shelves of romance paperbacks, although I didn’t seem so averse to them when I was reading them aloud to two classmates in high school after computer science class, and I swear it ended up [...]

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