The History of the (Whole) World

Book: How Fiction Works, by James Wood
Grade: C
Why: Too much micro-analysis, too little attention to the whole; too much scorn for the “popular,” too much delight in his own prose (”Nearly all of ...

Today was my first back-at-work day since the holidays; we took the week of New Year’s as a holiday, and Monday is our family day, so Tuesday is my Monday as far as work goes.
So I thought I’d star...

Vacation is great. I haven’t set my alarm since my last post on December 20th, and my husband bought me HUGE chocolate-peanutbutter cups at the local candy store and I’ve had one for breakfast ever...

I finished the edits, I printed it out (950 pages, finished around midnight), I sent it overnight to Norton.
Time for Christmas vacation. I’ll be back after Christmas with updates.
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The Mothe...

I plan on putting this MS in the mail to Norton first thing Thursday morning, and I still have editing to do (I HATE writing chapter titles), so no long post. Just a note that the video of the lec...

is Art of the Public Grovel…if you want to hear me talk about it and see some not too flattering photos (hey, it was raining the day I went in to do the interview and I was on my way to class), go...

A couple of weeks ago I finished proofing and sent back to Norton the galleys for the third edition of The Well-Trained Mind. The last edition is nearly five years old, and in five years books and...

A brief note: The audio for the talk I gave at the RSA in London is now online, and you can listen to it here.

I’m getting ready to head into the final push of getting this medieval history manuscript finished up–due date December 19–which means that I needed to polish off a bunch of random tasks this week...

I opened the box.
Guess that takes care of next week’s free time…