Vegetal, Anyone?

I submitted an article last week, so I'm back on the grind for my next book. Yesterday, one of my students was saying how hard it was to disabuse oneself of scholarship as finished work. We all know (and hope for) that finality to be an illusion if we want our work to actually be … Continue reading Vegetal, Anyone?

Teaching Lessons from the Mat

I have never had the type of hobbies that are shared by the masses. I have played golf once. I've never been confident enought to play pickup basketball. (I'm not whether the flesh is willing and the sprit is weak or the other way around.) I played one disastrous season of league softball, but that's … Continue reading Teaching Lessons from the Mat

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!