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Archive for May, 2011

Blog &Writing | 04 May 2011

How I Will Be Spending The Next Two Years

About a month ago, the PBS Newshour ran a segment about the 75th anniversary of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the oldest writing MFA program in the country. At 1:16 in the above video, the segment cuts to workshop director Samantha Chang standing in an office filled with crates full of manuscripts in red folders, explaining [...]

News | 02 May 2011

Reflections on the Announcement that Osama bin Laden Has Been Located and Killed

I stayed up much later than I intended to, streaming C-SPAN, so I could watch the President announce something historic. For reference, here is the video. I’m still parsing what I think about this, but I have some initial responses. I cannot agree with the President when he says that “justice has been done.” Justice [...]