You should be reading my friend Jillian’s blog. Not just The Bibliophilistines—which of course you’re already reading—but Spring in a Wooden House, her new blog about the time she’s spending volunteering at an orphanage in Nepal. When she started kicking around the idea of doing this, inspired partly by Conor Grennan’s blog (advice to westerners … Continue reading »
Posted on May 7, 2007 …
Gratitude
I step out of a pub and light up a cigarette. A random guy approaches. Random guy: Got a smoke? Me: No. Him: Hey, how come you ran out of there so fast? Where you going? Wasn’t the music good? Don’t you like it in there? Don’t you— Me: I… I don’t want to talk … Continue reading »
I Really Thought I’d Bought My Last Norton Years Ago
But now they’ve gone and published Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader. Just when my back was finally recovering from the strain of being an English major. Bastards.
