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Perhaps I own too many books. I have five bookshelves overflowing with them. Tonight, I decided I don’t read enough fiction, and thought, hey, I want to re-read Lucy Corin’s Everyday Psychokillers, which I first read in a grad level … Continue reading →

Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt: Advice for Humanities Ph.D.s by Kathryn Hume My review rating: 5 of 5 starsHume’s book is a must read for any graduate student in the humanities who desires to become an academic. Hume offers a … Continue reading →

Rhetorical Refusals: Defying Audiences’ Expectations by John Schilb My review rating: 4 of 5 starsIn Rhetorical Refusals, Schilb argues that a certain type of rhetoric, which he calls “rhetorical refusals,” has gone largely unstudied and argues that it merits further … Continue reading →

I’m working on revising something, and a few thoughts: • I’ve noticed that citations in many journal articles are often not complete (part of the title is left off, for instance), or sometimes inconsistently formatted within the same book or … Continue reading →

Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition by Lester Faigley My review rating: 5 of 5 starsIn Faigley’s 1992 book, he addresses the lack of attention to postmodern theory in composition studies, with particular attention to composition studies’ … Continue reading →