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bright fish hitch coop and then some: a roundup
Susie & Aretha Bright answer more sex questions at Jezebel, including “I’m a girl who comes too fast.”
Stanley Fish on reforms to college composition courses. And then, a little later, a follow-up column on the reactionary, ill-informed comments directed at him for writing the first column.
Up from Our Own Comments Threads– Ed Champion’s Hate Mail Dramatic Reading Project now includes the letter Kyle Minor posted yesterday in the comments on Catherine Lacey’s post about said project.
Over at Coop’s place, there’s a Spotlight on Danielle Collobert’s “Notebooks.” >> he just left — when he leaves I never know when I’ll see him again — always chance encounters — or nearly — today I asked myself what little errors we’ve let come between us — I don’t know yet — I can barely guess — <<
And Christopher Hitchens remembers Ted Kennedy, as only William Logan can. I know this one sounds like the boring one, but it’s actually the most interesting of what I’ve posted here (except maybe the girl who comes too fast) and it’s utterly unlike any of the other six hundred Kennedy memorials you read or else avoided reading last week.
Actually, Hitch is probably only as interesting as the Benjamin De Casseres piece by Joshua Cohen in Tablet, which I blogged about here the other day (“Hope is the promise of a crucifixion”), but for some reason get the feeling nobody saw. So here it is again.
Tags: Aretha and Susie Bright, Dennis Cooper, ed champion, Joshua Cohen
Those “reactionary, ill-formed comments” on Fish’s blog were all written by youngish English PhDs/MFAs/professors like yourself, no?
If you keep writing that kind of invective, people may think you have a modicum of common sense and intelligence and you’ll never get a tenure-track position anywhere.
Those “reactionary, ill-formed comments” on Fish’s blog were all written by youngish English PhDs/MFAs/professors like yourself, no?
If you keep writing that kind of invective, people may think you have a modicum of common sense and intelligence and you’ll never get a tenure-track position anywhere.
Mm, I get the feeling a lot of those comments were written by pissy mid-career adjuncts, who see in Fish’s argument a call to more work than they feel like doing. Not that I stand with him in his position- I could really give a damn whether the field of comp studies is reformed or not. I teach comp (adjunct) in a program at Rutgers that’s really astonishing for its rigor, and the quality of the texts we use. I don’t really want to be a comp teacher forever, but I love being part of this program, and it seems to have managed to not fall into either side of the debate in Fish’s articles. I assume this is because we’re doing a ‘best of both worlds’ kind of thing, but again we reach the limits of my interest. I just thought the blowback against Fish was interesting in its *lack* of contribution to the discussion he was trying to have. They all just wanted to prove to him that he was out of his depth, experience-wise, which of course would have been a distraction from the real issue even if they’d been right–but they weren’t. So zero points for them.
Mm, I get the feeling a lot of those comments were written by pissy mid-career adjuncts, who see in Fish’s argument a call to more work than they feel like doing. Not that I stand with him in his position- I could really give a damn whether the field of comp studies is reformed or not. I teach comp (adjunct) in a program at Rutgers that’s really astonishing for its rigor, and the quality of the texts we use. I don’t really want to be a comp teacher forever, but I love being part of this program, and it seems to have managed to not fall into either side of the debate in Fish’s articles. I assume this is because we’re doing a ‘best of both worlds’ kind of thing, but again we reach the limits of my interest. I just thought the blowback against Fish was interesting in its *lack* of contribution to the discussion he was trying to have. They all just wanted to prove to him that he was out of his depth, experience-wise, which of course would have been a distraction from the real issue even if they’d been right–but they weren’t. So zero points for them.
Wait till you’re a pissy mid-career adjunct, which is where you’re heading if you don’t watch out. Rutgers! That’s the Institute of Training for Pissy Mid-Career Adjuncts and Other Future Failures. (Back in the 1970s, it was the Institute for Associate Professors Who Write Really, Really Bad Reviews in the New York Times Book Review and the stench still lingers over New Brunswick…)
Get out while you still can.
Wait till you’re a pissy mid-career adjunct, which is where you’re heading if you don’t watch out. Rutgers! That’s the Institute of Training for Pissy Mid-Career Adjuncts and Other Future Failures. (Back in the 1970s, it was the Institute for Associate Professors Who Write Really, Really Bad Reviews in the New York Times Book Review and the stench still lingers over New Brunswick…)
Get out while you still can.
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