Tag Archives: Dickinson

Sounding Texts: My American Literature

A further edit upon “My Favorite Book.”  It grows. A friend asked me recently to name a favorite book.  This is nearly impossible to me as I rarely find whole books satisfying throughout and prefer to dance about in essays and poems.  To be sure, you might ask tomorrow and get a different response.  I [...]

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Not My Favorite Book

Updated and revised (4/18, 11:29 a.m.) Another version of “My Favorite Book.” Not My Favorite Book A favorite book?  I don’t have one.  To be sure, you might ask tomorrow and get a different response.  I have favorite authors sometimes, but these too are always flowing in and out of my esteem.  Often a work [...]

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The Chaos of Monoculture

I hope you had a nice Father’s Day. Mine was blessed with the gift of multiple cheeses…what more can you [...]

The Custom House: Louis Agassiz with Christoph Irmscher

Episode 2 is now available for download: Agassiz, Inc. Please share far and wide, early and often. Thanks! This week [...]

The Errant Goes Audible: The Custom House on WFHB

I am hosting a radio show and podcast on WFHB, community radio, in Bloomington, IN, called The Custom House that [...]

Who Runs the Indianapolis Public Schools?

Who runs our IPS? “The crisis is not about education at all. It’s about power.” ~ James BaldwinOverview:Traditionally, local school [...]

What is Learning?

Question: Define the purpose of guttering on a house. Answer: Choose the response that represents your thinking. a. to catch [...]

The Great Lawsuit (Audio)

This is the essay that led to Fuller’s longer treatment on the Rights of Women titled Woman in the 19th Century. [...]