Monthly Archives: October 2013

Satellite of love

I guess Lou Reed was the path-breaking rock ‘n roller that all the eulogists are describing. To me he’s always been there, always been part of the fabric of guitar rock, always great. I’m sorry he’s gone, but Satellite’s gone. … Continue reading

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Request from Stockton’s Literature program

Dear Alums, Sometimes it’s difficult for me to keep up with the workload. Stockton celebrated its 40th anniversary two Septembers ago. I attended the celebrations; wrote about the LITT/LANG program for the book Ken Tompkins and Rob Gregg put together; … Continue reading

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Senior Seminars: Spring 2014

Marion Hussong’s Spring 14 Senior Sem: Literature and Exile During the reign of National Socialism in Germany, many talented writers were forced to emigrate from Germany and Austria, to various destinations of safety around the globe. In this senior seminar … Continue reading

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Publishing for the 21st Century

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Designing Literary Apps

In Spring 2014 the Literature Program will be offering Designing Literary Apps, a new course in which students will create content to be made available on various tablet platforms (initial stages will be aimed at iOS devices). Class participants will … Continue reading

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Alison Byerly

Alison Byerly, the new president of Lafayette, was a classmate of mine; we came out of Penn the same year. Good work Alison. Be good.

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Defense of Poesy

Ellie Green has put together an entertaining introduction to Philip Sidney’s Defense of Poesy. It’s approx. a 10 minute video. If you are going into course overload, take a break by taking a look. P. S. KT complains that it … Continue reading

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Gamers

Gamers (aka ugame?), 70 min, is showing on October 17 at 4:30 in AS108. Here is the blog for the movie.

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