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‘Darts’ by Richard Marion
“Darts” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
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Markets Dive
Here’s the latest on today’s stock market dive from NYTimes. Could investors be signalling that it is time for action and that doing nothing is not an option? I heard one analyst on the radio saying that experts and politicians claimed they were caught by surprise in 2008 when Wall…
Read More »Poet Kay Ryan, Featured at UMass Lowell Last Spring, and Three Harvard Scholars Among MacArthur Fellows
Poet Kay Ryan, who read her poems to an overflow crowd at UMass Lowell last spring, and three members of the Harvard University faculty are among the 22 recipients of the 2011 “genius grants” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The Harvard professors are economist Roland Fryer,…
Read More »Scary: And It’s Not Even Halloween
Ed Kilgore in The New Republic boils down the ingredients of national Republic Party policy positions. Is this what it has come to? Looks like a stark contrast for Nov. 2012. Read his short piece here, which I picked up from realclearpolitics.com
Read More »Literary Agent Sterling Lord Recalls Kerouac and Kesey
The American Scholar has published an excerpt from the forthcoming memoir by the dean of literary agents in New York City, Sterling Lord. He became Jack Kerouac’s agent in the mid-1950s, and in the early 60s linked up with Ken Kesey, who had just written “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s…
Read More »UMass Lowell Authors in New Book on Science & Health Protection to Be Launched Sept. 26
Book Launch: From Critical Science to Solutions: The Best of Scientific Solutions Monday, September 26, 4:00 pm, at the Allen House, South Campus, UMass Lowell Richard Clapp edited the book, which is a selection of New Solutions articles published over the past two decades—articles by scholars and staff from UMass…
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A Different Kind of Writing
In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kenneth Goldsmith explores the way writing in the digital age is becoming something different. If you skim down toward the end, he offers some surprising examples of what people are “writing” and publishing. For those not familiar with it, the Chronicle is the mainstream…
Read More »Maureen on 2012: ‘It’s the Stupidity, Stupid.’
September 17, 2011
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I almost can’t believe we have to read this kind of commentary, but it would not be responsible to let it go as if politics is some kind of harmless joke. Maureen Dowd spells it out in her latest opinion column when warning about the worst of what the Republican…
Read More »‘Cake and Tea’ by Richard Marion
“Cake and Tea” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
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