Lately I have been thinking about what my English degrees have done for me, not so much in their specifics but in regards to the skills I acquired while studying literature. Then this morning I heard the story “Aspiring Writer Questions Value of English Degree” on the radio. The subject of the story, Heather Lefebvre, says [...]
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December marked the second year since I finished my coursework for my Master of Fine Arts degree. Milestones, arbitrary as they might be, can be stressful, can make you ask yourself uncomfortable questions. How far have I come? Am I successful at what I set out to be successful at? I read stories about a writer [...] I get a few people emailing me every year to ask me how to become a comics editor. They seem to think that it’s a line of work that is “fun” or “rewarding” or “cool,” and they want in on the glorious words-and-pictures life. They also seem to think that there’s some secret to getting a [...] I’ve been going through my grad school notes, deciding what to keep and what to dispose of. On many of my notes are little sketches of scenes in class that I would write when something struck me as interesting, absurd, or annoying. Here’s one I just found, written in November 2004 in my 18th-Century British Literature [...] A comment showed up on my last post that I marked as spam: “It’s not so simple to do a good enough written essays, preferably if you are occupied. I consult you to define [essay mill] and to be spare from query that your work will be done by custom writing service” All of that is [sic], [...] |
 East of Eden by John Steinbeck  Put The Book Back On The Shelf: A Belle And Sebastian Anthology by Image Comics, Jamie S. Rich, Marc Ellerby, Jennifer De Guzman, Brian Belew, Mark Andrew Smith  Paris by Andi Watson, Simon Gane  Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like a Peasant by Belle and Sebastian  Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie  Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto  Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins  Disintegration by The Cure |
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