Tayari Jones on Kirk Larsen

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Former Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Residence Tayari Jones — one of the most beloved teachers ever to fill that position — maintains a lively blog.

Recently she wrote about one of our own undergraduate English majors, Kirk Larsen, describing him as “one of my genius undergraduates.” If you follow that link, you will see why Kirk, a junior, deserves that epithet.

Readers of this blog may know Kirk from his witty posts at The Colonialist, which we have just added to our own blogroll (at right).

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