Scriptures Everywhere: Barracoon

ISS Institute for Signifying Scriptures: Scriptures Everywhere (there's an image of a microphone)

The Institute for Signifying Scriptures is launching a monthly, online seminar. The theme for this Fall 2025 is Memory and we'll be reading Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo." The meetings will take place on the first Friday of each month at 10am Pacific. ISS asks that you register at … Continue reading Scriptures Everywhere: Barracoon

Get Off My Lawn and Leave my Footnotes Alone!

A stack of the MLA Handbook, the Turabian Manual for Writers, the APA Style Guide, and the Chicago Manual of Style

The story of my writing career in one scene. Please convert your footnotes to in-text citation? Fine, I'll make the switch. Can you meet me halfway with chapter endnotes? Book endnotes! Isn't that a lot of work for the reader, sifting back through the bibliography to find the endnote section? ...not if there isn't a … Continue reading Get Off My Lawn and Leave my Footnotes Alone!