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Sorry for the bad Korean writing. Happy Chuseok, everyone! I’m spending the day trying to get over my cold. Ungh. I hope all of your Chuseoks are better than mine…

Academic Dress Code?

Oh, the self-hate! Over at The Common Review you can sample this article, Why We Look So Bad, by
Basically, she’s just an academic who thinks professors (to her credit, including herself) don’t dress well enough in general, and that they really aren’t keeping up with the rest of the professional world. Why they should [...]

Again, Graham Greene

Again, found on Arts & Letters Daily (as have been many of the links in today’s posts, because I’m finally catching up there after missing out on a few weeks of updates), another great bio-sketch of Graham Greene which convinces me I ought to take advantage of how many of his works are in [...]

Another PKD Bio

Why is it that so many artistic wonders were mad? These people could never function in most contexts, but as musicians, painters, writers, they thrived.
There’s another bio out now, on one of my favorite writers, Philip K. Dick. It’s called I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip [...]

On Essay-writing

As we trade links and debate the importance of blogging to journalism, or who’s influenced who, tons of trash is posted online. Nobody seems to know how to write.
Well, not nobody. But you know what? I think this essay on writing essays would do a lot of the blogosphere some good. Makes me wonder [...]

Bonjour paresse

Bonjour paresse is a newish book in France that is apparently selling like mad. It’s basically a kind of satirical attack on the private sector and of course the bureaucracy (oops, I originally typed bureaucrazy, and it might be closer to the truth) of France, but also the whole philosophy of business and working for [...]

Walking Back To Genesis

Via Arts & Letters Daily, this is a taste of Dawkins’ new book Walking back to genesis. It looks like a fascinating piece, exploring the path of our evolution backwards to the first life on earth, conceived of as a Chaucerian pilgrimmage. And it’s probably of particular interest to SF geeks like me, who could [...]

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