Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
February 26th, 2010 at 10:39PM
I’d love to have been there too, but why imagine the librarian “trembling” and “shaking”? Why not “gleeful” and “vengeful” instead?–regardless of whether it was “her” or “him,” since the Times story does not mention the librarians’ gender(s).
February 27th, 2010 at 8:36AM
You need to give the guy an A for creativity, though.
February 27th, 2010 at 8:51AM
What? You don’t think it’s plausible that he picked it up in a cheap bar in Havana???
February 27th, 2010 at 9:24AM
I suggested “Let’s hide the banana,”
To my club-dancing girl from Havana.
But on the way to coition
A Shakespeare edition
Appeared in our beach-side cabana.
February 27th, 2010 at 9:57AM
LOL, Dave. Coition/edition.
February 27th, 2010 at 11:19AM
Try as I might, I just couldn’t find a rhyme for folio, quarto, or octavo.
February 27th, 2010 at 11:38AM
He’s 53? With an impoverished girlfriend and a purloined book? Men my age can be hopeless.
February 27th, 2010 at 11:54AM
There’s hopeless, and then there’s hopeful in a hopeless sort of way.
The Daily News provides pics:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1036564/November-wedding-insists-fiancee-dealer-accused-manuscript-theft.html
February 27th, 2010 at 1:04PM
Isn’t this a case of acting out movie/TV tropes? The guy thinks, “Okay, I’m an international book thief, I ought to have a girlfriend who dances in a nightclub in Havana.”
February 27th, 2010 at 1:43PM
LOL, Mr Punch.
February 27th, 2010 at 3:50PM
More classic work from Dave Stone! Dave, I hope you’re saving these. History demands it.
February 28th, 2010 at 4:31PM
Dave: For folio, there’s Malvolio….
June 29th, 2010 at 10:13AM
[…] in Cuba visiting his girlfriend, a dancer at Havana’s Tropicana Club, when his eye fell upon a 1623 Shakespeare First Folio just sitting there at the bar. O brave new world, That has such manuscripts […]