Actually, suspect that the real elephants in the room at this conference are less the ones posited in various sessions, but

- the fact that nobody has read all the precirculated chapters, if they have read any.

- a discernable certain lack of enthusiasm for assigned chapters among their designated authors.

Wot, me, cynical?

Whatevs, not feeling ( Read more... )

Felt sufficiently better this evening to drag myself to a book launch.

Plus: that I realised how little time it took to get to the venue when I had a clear idea of where it was in my head (it was in same venue as a talk I gave about this time last year and where I had fortunately allowed myself enough time to get lost and still arrive in time to ( Read more... )

Literary storm rages as critic Lee Siegel pronounces the American novel dead. Does one actually need to read articles which begin thusly to apprehend that the Great Novelists being namechecked are all Dead (or fairly elderly) White Males? *Iz cynical*

Unemployment fears grow for 'hopeless' UK male graduates. NB, surely 'complacency' and ' ( Read more... )