The other night I hopped on to Twitter and saw this: @ayjay: Surely someone has done the McSweeney’s piece about adjuncting at Hogwarts, yes? It went uphill from there; a whole thread of conversation instigated by Alan Jacobs, Distinguished Professor of Literature at Baylor University. If you like Harry Potter, have worked in higher education, and generally enjoy funny-ness, go check […]
New Guest Post at Story Warren
Have you been introduced to Story Warren yet? It’s a delightful place, full of wonderful people who tell wonderful tales and recommend wonderful things. Y’all should head on over and check out one of those links in the previous sentence. Or all of them. S.D. Smith, who runs the place with his many allies, is a highly enjoyable human being […]
Eleven Years
I first met him in the Oxford Valley Barnes and Noble on a rainy afternoon about eleven years ago. I’d heard he would be a bad influence on me, but I wanted to draw my own conclusions before entering the debate. And time was running short: a discussion about his worth was planned for the next day. It was a […]
Spaghetti in the Pensieve
In one of the Harry Potter books, when Harry and Dumbledore are examining memories in the Pensieve, there’s one memory that Dumbledore has trouble getting out of its little bottle into the Pensieve. It clings to the glass, and stretches into strings as he forces it out…I think all memories are like that, in a way. They all cling, typically […]