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Asked in the article is this question: “If it’s wrong for the government to take the taxpayers’ money to promote religion, why is it OK to take taxpayers’ money to assault religion?”
Interstitial art of any sort—that art which falls between the established boundaries of popularly accepted genres or even entirely disparate artistic media—is and has always been difficult to process for critics and audiences alike. Sterne’s Tristram Shandy—a text some might dub the most famous work in the history of interstitial literature—was, for instance, less . . . → Read More: The Reunion of Broken Parts: On the (Inexplicably) Underhyped Writing of Alex Rose
“Professor X is tired of hearing people say the reason so many children enrolled in city schools across the nation are failing is because the teachers are bad.”
Prompted by this professor friend’s Facebook post, I considered this morning a number of reasons that the American education system—in which I will very likely some . . . → Read More: The Disengaged Have Disengaged the Engaged
What? The website’s subtitle promises “Other Sundry Excitements.” This is one of them. So, off we go.
In the summer of 2009, I bought something like sixty LPs and worked slowly through those, an effort which took me well into 2010. I wanted to find some new . . . → Read More: 2010′s (Revised) Top Ten in Music
There’s really no such thing as “job security” for most waiters or writers. The closest approximation is to make yourself a man or woman in demand. After a five-and-a-half-year tenure at the restaurant I simultaneously run and serve for, I’ve built up a fairly respectable client base. And, though our establishment has made it abundantly . . . → Read More: Why You Should Be Buying Literary Journals