Ann Patchett Event, Writer’s Garrett Dallas

Went to see Ann Patchett, one of our favorite novelists, at a Dallas Writer’s Garrett event last night in Richardson. Patchett is the author of Bel Canto, a great novel about terrorism and love, Truth and Beauty, a memoir, and her latest, a novel called Run that’s doing very well on the NY Times bestseller [...]

Thank you Inside Higher Ed

I’m grateful to Inside Higher Ed for publishing my latest essay, on academic avatars. It’s nice to write something relatively quickly and have it read quickly and responded to so quickly. It’s not like writing articles for peer reviewed journals, which sometimes languish for years before seeing print, or even worse, trying to publish a [...]