- Shame in Academic Writing – The Chronicle of Higher Education
- For months I had been reading his work and telling him it wasn’t quite there. For months he listened to me — asking smart questions, grilling me on general issues about the craft of writing, wondering how other authors got away with moves he was trying to make, and working hard to figure out what was going wrong in his own work. He never got defensive or upset, he just kept at it, doing what the best students do.
- …He looked serious and more twitchy than usual. He leaned back to pose what I could tell would be a big question.
- “Is it normal,” he asked in a small voice, “to feel stupid after getting an edited manuscript back?”
- L.A. Banks RIP: Remembering a Literary Shape-Shifter
- It was the image on the book cover that first captured my attention during one of my many trips to the bookstore: a view from the rear of a sepia-toned woman with thick, black curly hair piled atop her head and what looked like a peacock of some sort tattooed on the small of her back. The woman stood, clutching a dagger in her hand, …
- I was instantly intrigued: a woman, perhaps even a black woman, as defender? As hero? As villain?
- I stood in the store, reading the first few pages, and I was hooked: A woman comes home one night from an errand to find her husband being swept away — literally — by what turns out to be a vampire.
- …It was the start of…my deep appreciation for a literary shape-shifter, who mastered genres ranging from romance and contemporary fiction to…paranormal sci-fi…
- Banks, a statuesque woman with a welcoming smile, had a talent for making a stranger feel like a best friend upon meeting her. …
- NABJ and Unity: A Risky Disagreement
- The black journalists’ group takes a risk by quitting a key alliance with other ethnic associations.
- HIV infection rates mostly stable, increasing among young, gay black men – The Chart – CNN.com Blogs
- VIDEO: Why Buchanan Called Obama ‘Your Boy’
- Slur? We’re going to have to go with Pat here and agree that it wasn’t one. But really, is it so hard to call the president by his name or title? The larger and more troubling issue here involves the total lack of respect for Obama from the right that’s become so commonplace that it barely raises an eyebrow.
- In his USA Today column this week, DeWayne Wickham makes a compelling argument that the contempt doesn’t just stem from political differences. What’s behind it is something that’s worse than a slur…
[My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Also, signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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