I have to admit, I get excited walking around campus and watching freshman orientation groups tripping over (or colliding into) each other. Not just because I like calamity, either. There’s a lot of positive energy buzzing around a college campus before classes start and it’s hard not to get caught up in the excitement.
To keep [...]
A few months ago I added the Archives link to provide a different method of searching for old posts. I noticed then that everything started in August 2006, and I made a note to write an anniversary post this month. So here we go…my thoughts on a four year old blog.
A few people have asked [...]
Here’s the summer edition of Nashville Review for your enjoyment. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, songs, interviews…about all you could ask for in an online literary/arts magazine.
Also tagged BooksI’ve been thinking about this blog and Facebook a lot recently because a) I probably spend too much time on Internet-related matters, and b) the more I teach, the more I worry that crafty students will dig up something incriminating. I don’t think there’s much scary stuff to work with — all I do is [...]
Also tagged Ain't That America, Site updatesOn to another leg of the summer trip: the lovely beaches of South Carolina. Home of sand dollars, waterboards, sharks (some guy caught one right in front of me), former co-workers (showed up right behind me), and awesome new kites that feature huge panda bears and twirly things.
It’s been a busy few weeks bouncing between [...]
If you told me “Alex, you need to be able to do 100 consecutive push-ups within six weeks,” I’d laugh and eat a Twinkie and then waddle away from you in a dismissive fashion. However, if you put your demands in list form like this web site called hundredpushups.com, I’d be compelled to start the [...]
Also tagged ProjectsI’m scheduled to teach a beginning fiction workshop this summer but at the moment there’s a slight technical difficulty: nobody has registered for the class. Workshops are very popular in the regular fall/spring semesters. Summer sessions? Nobody knows. Nobody’s tried it here before, and apparently the summer school crowd is a shifty bunch.
But I won’t [...]
After a post-graduation week of Nashville vacation-type activities, it’s time to get back to work. Or at least something resembling work. I’m still making my way through story revisions and sending stories out into the void. Also reading submissions for Nashville Review (if you have a story to send, send it).
In other week-beginning news, I [...]
