[illustration: the view from the Academic Center at 7:28 AM]
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Despite both my kids wearing their pajamas inside-out last night, the snow gods saw fit only to shower upon us a modicum of white fluff.
Classes before 10 AM are canceled. Mine is at 11:10, so it looks like I’ll be teaching. Not that I don’t love my students … but professors wish for snow days, too, you know.
Now that you’ve been filled in on the life of Jenny McKean Moore, it’s time to meet this year’s Writer-in-Residence! Come out this evening to hear Tilar Mazzeo as she reads from her forthcoming book The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World’s Most Famous Perfume. The event begins at 8…
A portrait by Jeff Singer. (Click through for more about the photographer’s memory of the shoot.) A year ago this week—at which point he’d been thinned by chemotherapy but not yet harrowed with radiation—a few of us sat with Christopher Hitchens around his dining-room table, trying to come up with a title for the essay…
At what lean times have we arrived when the blubbery Hippo dwindles in scarcity? (I think the author of this article means “scarce” rather than “sparse”: it isn’t that Hippoparaphernalia is thinly scattered so much as it is ceasing to exist) (or is that the punctilious professor in me speaking?) At any rate, we didn’t…
I know that all of you have already registered for your spring courses … but if you are not quite happy with (say) that boring class in international relations that you signed up for because you thought it would enable you to relate internationally, here are some great ENGLISH DEPARTMENT courses seeking students: 171W.10 Willa…
Walking outside today feels like a scene from Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The streets are disturbingly empty and the few who do dare to venture outside are so bundled up you cannot even see their faces. All winter wonderland fun has been abandoned for general misery. Instead we are locked up in our dorms, apartments,…
This new anthology celebrates DC and showcases several GW faculty members. Here is the official press release: Plan B Press proudly announces the publication of the new anthology Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC. Featuring over one hundred contemporary poems, the book captures DC’s unique sense of place, from monuments to parks,…
