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Enormous Changes, Last Minute: About Grace Paley

Grace Paley died two days ago. She was a sweet and humane poet and short story writer, one of those individuals for whom many will admit a familiarity with the name if not a specific knowledge of the work because some high school English teacher somewhere along the line (but a fan, truly) assigned [...]

24th August 2007 | Posted in Dartmouth, art, good writing, history, ideas, language, life, obituary, poetry, talent, unfortunate | No Comments »


Back to Blogging (we hope), but first, Mr. Wizard

It is that rare thing to see a new post on this blog. But there’s all this blogging going on at Wired, where I’m hanging out for the summer, and that’s spurred me to get back into it. Keep an eye out, though; this blog might be moving.
But first, some news. Mr. Wizard died [...]

13th June 2007 | Posted in obituary, science, television | No Comments »