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New Year’s Resolution #3
WHEREAS, an unreasonable amount of time was spent on preparing for classes last semester… And that time had very little payoff. I spent a significant amount of time grading and preparing for my undergraduate class last semester, and it didn’t turn out as well as I might have liked. Part of that, no doubt, was […]
New Year’s Resolution #2
WHEREAS I have been “unproductive” as a scholar since I have been employed at SUNY… This may or may not be an overstatement. I have about a dozen projects at varying degrees of completion. Closing has been the real issue. My efforts are distributed so thinly that I haven’t been able to push forward in […]
New Year’s Resolution #1
WHEREAS the amount and quality of reading I did last year was pitiful… At the moment, I can think of only two-and-a-half works of fiction I read over the last 12 months: I reread Nabokov’s Laughter in the Dark, and left it in a lounge in Schiphol so as not to read it again (it’s […]
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