… about suicide among professors.
Also: A reporter at George Washington University’s paper has been interviewing her about her MOOC. She’ll link to that piece as well.
UD now walks to Whole Foods in Somerville Massachusetts in search of things that go with chlodnik. Twin infant girls, and one of their grandmothers, accompany her.
UD has been way maternal this week. Much dandling.
When Soltan finished delivering Molly Bloom’s orgasmic finale in the ambassador’s formal living room — “His heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes” — Collins stepped up the microphone and said, “Yes, indeed!” He noted that “Ulysses” had never been banned in Ireland.
An account of Bloomsday at the embassy features your blogger.
As I say in the post below, I’m not sure the ambassador’s “Yes, indeed!” was unreservedly thrilled …
… Chronicle of Higher Education. If any of my words of wisdom make it into the article, I’ll of course link to it here.
… this article, welcomes readers from Inside Higher Education.
… writes a letter to the Washington Post.
… will have a letter published shortly in the Washington Post.
She will not give away its content, but she will share with you the headline the Post editors have placed atop it:
ACADEMIES OF LEARNING… AND LAUGHS
She will of course link to it when it appears.
Kecaman pun mengalir deras kepadanya. Salah satu datang dari Margaret Soltan. Lewat website-nya, Soltan mengusung tajuk bernada sindiran kepada Twitchell.
Which Google Translator renders
Criticism flowed freely to him. One came from Margaret Soltan. Through its website, carried the headline Soltan satirical tone to Twitchell.
This is the post in question.
UD‘s extremely proud to appear in the following first paragraph in an Anthony Grafton essay in The New Republic:
Morning, nowadays, means coffee and the Times, as it did for my parents. But it also means something they never experienced: a trip across the Web. Slipping from link to link, occasionally falling in and spending a few minutes in one place, I pass from TNR to NYRB to Bookforum, from Atrios to Steve Benen, from Easily Distracted to University Diaries to Tenured Radical to TigerHawk, from Historiann and Arts & Letters Daily to Cliopatria and Athens & Jerusalem, from Andrew Sullivan to Megan McArdle to Ta-Nehisi Coates—and, for perspective, to the obituaries in the Telegraph.
Talk about being in good company.
Tony’s reviewing Mary Beard‘s latest book — UD and Mary are longtime mutual blog admirers.
UD thanks her friend Christina for noticing the TNR essay.