Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing

 Would you do this for $2,500 a semester?  ($5,000 a year).  It seems like a lot of work.  Getting 20 faculty members to come to an event is...

 Take seriously the idea that music and poetry are closely related, in the sense that they have common origin and elements; don't take t...

 We voted for faculty union, 850 to 132.  It is a convincing percentage, and nobody I know of is saying openly that they voted against. Now ...

 I was acting in a production of El público.   I hadn't memorized my lines, and so had to read from a script; was trying to justify this...

  Misunderstanding Lorca 1.       Introduction: Lorca and Me   2.       Toward an Intellectual Biography 3.       The Death of the Subject 4...

 It is not "ironic" that Salman Rushdie was attacked with a knife while defending free speech. It is the opposite of irony, whatev...

 I have a book that will either be called Understanding Lorca or Misunderstanding Lorca .  The first title seems misleading; the second, too...