There was a stabbing over the weekend at a party in my sophomore-year dorm. I never understood why UMass students would come all the way to Amherst for a party (unless they were invited, that is). I would imagine UMass threw many more — and better — parties than we did. And it’s kind of [...]
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A stab in the dark.
Posted in College, Eats, Friends, Restaurants, tagged Amherst, Bertucci's, bread, frat party, Julie on February 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Pritchard on Updike.
Posted in Books, College, Family, Grad School, Writing, tagged Dad, Pritchard, rabbits, Updike on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Second semester of my senior year of college, I did an independent study with two other students and Professor Pritchard. We asked him to define the class for us–esentially, to teach us whatever he most wanted to teach us. We read Roth, Mailer, Bellow and John Updike’s Rabbit series. For class, we sat in his [...]
Better than poetry.
Posted in College, Grad School, Writing, tagged Amherst, inauguration, NYU, obama, poetry, Pritchard, teaching on January 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This kicks the inaugural poem’s ass (as did Rev. Lowry’s variation on it): I must say, I did not love Elizabeth Alexander’s poem. I wasn’t going to blog about it, because even though I taught poetry-writing at NYU, I really don’t know much about it, and I don’t even like to read a lot of [...]
