This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on November 1, 2013. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. On the first day of classes two years ago, I had students in my professional and technical writing course send me an email with their goals for the semester. I discovered they had no understanding of goals, […]
Chef Mary Seip cooking a dish in the kitchen of the Rosebank Tavern. Staten Island Advance STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Remember the taste of Mary Seip’s cream puffs or her slow-cooked marinara? Or how about the first time chowing down on a butter-filled Chicken Kiev at Riviera Chateau , formerly of Bay Terrace? Those tastes […]
Being Funny in a Foreign Language , the 1975’s fifth album, was born from reflection. After the band noticed that the new music they were working on felt like an extension of their last record, 2020’s Notes on a Conditional Form , they stopped to reconsider. “That elicited a bit of a downer,” says band […]
Author Joanna Quinn spent 10 years writing “The Whalebone Theatre.” (Photo credit: Nancy Turner / Courtesy of Knopf) When Joanna Quinn sat down to write her first novel, she knew she wanted to create the sort of sprawling epic period piece she loves to read. Of course, writing a novel like that takes longer than […]
Photo by Stocksnap on Pixabay Growing up, I spent most of my time either playing dress up in my room and acting out scenes from movies or writing in my journal. More often than not, I was writing. I remember first writing about my dad being in Iraq when I was in third grade. It […]
Photograph: Disk of Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon Mesopotamia, Akkadian, Ur (modern Tell el – Muqayyar), gipar Akkadian period, ca. 2300 BC . Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Pop quiz: Who’s the world’s first author? “If you ask most people who the first known author is, you will always get a man and usually it will […]
Book lovers and writers got to experience an amazing free literary event at the San Diego Writers Festival held here in Coronado on Saturday, October 8. Now in its fourth year, the first one was held in 2019 at the San Diego Downtown Library, with the next two years online, and this year, back in […]
Baillie Gifford shortlist 2022. Photograph: Baillie Gifford prize Five of the six books on this year’s shortlist for the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction are by women. Caroline Elkins’ Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire; Sally Hayden’s My Fourth Time, We Drowned; Anna Keay’s The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown; Polly […]
Writer Frank Kensaku Saragosa, who was formerly homeless, poses near a sidewalk encampment in San Diego. SAN DIEGO — Omaha native Frank Kensaku Saragosa felt a bit uneasy as he walked past the tents that lined the sidewalk along downtown San Diego’s East Village. “I used to stay over there,” he said, pointing to an […]
I was 20 when I first told another person I’d been sexually abused as a child. My confessor is a dear friend; after nearly five decades he remains the oracle of a remarkably close circle of men forged together as American, middle-class Gen-X boys. Clem was post-high school, like me. Not yet seriously invested in […]
