Now for a word from the realm of politics.
Wondering if you’ve all been following this New Yorker article which suggests that the Bush II administration intends to use nukes against Iran.
For some reason–I am sure you can’t imagine why–I find this story really, really unsettling. For 60 years the nuclear genie has been [...]

Tomorrow’s the Stanford-Berkeley Conference, an annual get-together of Stanford and Berkeley grad students to present their work in a, hm, safe and nurturing environment. I’m whipping up , right this moment, what may be my first official piece of writing for my dissertation. It is also a piece that I want to use, in a [...]

I am at a point in my dissertation-writing process where I am going to begin (on Monday) writing my first diss. chapter. Initially, I’ll write a conference paper for the upcoming Stanford-Berkeley graduate student conference. This’ll be on co-optation in a novel called The Savage Girl. Then, I’ll fuse this conference paper with a previous [...]