April 2012
43 posts
“…check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—[I] only...”
– If this isn’t evidence for the brokenness of the education system, coming straight from Barack Obama, don’t know what is. Obama spoke in North Carolina on why Congress needs to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling. (via explore-blog)
“Darling, all night
I have been flickering, off, on, off, on.”
– Sylvia Plath, from “Fever 103°”
“Go to an airport, and look at people on the moving walkway,” he says. “I mean,...”
– Americans Do Not Walk The Walk, And That’s A Growing Problem (via npr)
This is why I don’t go on these things!!
Winesburg, Ohio
“A thing had happened to him that made him hate life, and he hated it whole-heartedly, with the abandon of a poet.”
Women in Literature
“The place of women in the literary world is still as urgent an issue as it has ever been. I worry that other women of my generation, having taken their admission to this world as a natural right, have grown as complacent as I have been. But admission is not the same thing as acceptance. And what the reception of literature by women over the last few decades—longer, of course, but let’s keep...
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Women in Literature
“The place of women in the literary world is still as urgent an issue as it has ever been. I worry that other women of my generation, having taken their admission to this world as a natural right, have grown as complacent as I have been. But admission is not the same thing as acceptance. And what the reception of literature by women over the last few decades—longer, of course, but let’s keep...
