You Can Read

my essay on getting tenure at The Chronicle of Higher Education Career Network. The editor cut a line that I kind of like so here it is as a teaser: "There are obviously an infinite number of uses (not practical uses, not desirable uses, just uses) for a spoon."

You'll have to guess where it went.

I am

briefly on the Brevity blog.

My Students Make Me Proud

Brevity has announced on their website that the essay "Why" by FAU MFA grad Kathrine Leone Wright has been selected by Dzanc Book for The Best of the Web 2009 (available in late June).

Regular readers will recall that's a piece of Kathrine's thesis essay.

You can read

my essay in the current issue of Brevity.

Also check out the essays by my dear grad school friend Rigoberto Gonzalez and the wonderful Richard Robbins who gave me my first job as a professor.