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My Ántonia Read Along: Book I, Chapters 13-19
Download the full reading schedule here. Years afterward, when the open-grazing days were over, and the red grass had been ploughed under and under…
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The Day I Became An English Major
How My Ántonia changed my life
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My Ántonia Read Along: Book I, Chapters 6-12
Presently Pavel began to talk to Mr. Shimerda, scarcely above a whisper. He was telling a long story, and as he went on, Ántonia took my hand under the…
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Exit Interview
A. Jay Adler on leaving academe
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My Ántonia Read Along: Intro and Book I, Ch 1-5
I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel…
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Make Work Work Better For You
Leslie Wang on how to suffer less in academe or beyond it
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March 2024

Join the Willa Cather Read Along on April 5
A detailed reading schedule and prefatory remarks
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What Work Is
Today’s essay is part of a series on work that includes me, Latham Turner, Bowen Dwelle, Michael Mohr ofSincere American Writing, Dee Rambeau, and Lyle…
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Divorce
A poem
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Does Your News Feed Pass The SMELL Test?
Friends, My mother is in town this week, so I’m sharing an updated piece from the archive. It should be new to at least half of you. I’m reminded every…
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Willa Cather Read Along
And other updates for The Recovering Academic
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What Role Do Fathers Play in Feminism?
I was speeding down the Atlantic City Expressway, having just escaped the Philadelphia traffic, when my ex (whom I’ll call Sarah) announced that Roe v…
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