Monday, November 21, 2011

The Itch to Read, Part 5: Understanding

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My previous blog concentrated on reading as the mechanism that transports us to places and times beyond our own experience, worlds in which ...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

The Itch to Read, Part 4: Adventure and Escape

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My students always tell me that one of the chief joys of reading is "escape." For me, escape means the chance to see the world thr...
Monday, November 14, 2011

The Itch to Read, Part 3: Advice for the Non-Reader

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One of the greatest challenges a reader can face is understanding why some people don't read. After all, aren't there so many good r...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

The Itch to Read, Part 2: The Making of a Reader

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One of the truths I stress in my college Freshman Composition classes is that good readers are made, not born. The ability to read well, to ...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

The Itch to Read, Part 1: Frederick Douglass

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In his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave , one of the most emotionally powerful pieces of 19th ce...
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Prohibition

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For a libertarian, the Prohibition years are an especially shameful chapter in American history, a stretch of time when the belief in the p...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Nerds in Costume: Corrupting America?

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In her latest book Of Thee I Zing! , conservative social critic Laura Ingraham takes aim at what passes for popular "culture" here...