Yesterday, The Atlantic posted an article by Robert Pondiscio entitled, “How Self-Expression Damaged My Students.” Pondiscio offers an interesting, if ultimately flawed, thesis: In early childhood writing education, the deliberate cultivation of creative or imaginative expression will ultimately impede scholarly … Continued
The last time I used a pay phone was to respond to my beeper, which was attached to my hip and set on vibrate. It was fourteen years ago; “Quit Playing Games With My Heart” was what is now “Call … Continued
In the following, senior editor Samuel Burr gives a short note on graphic journalism, as preface to Lucy Knisley’s “The New Life of the Comic Book”. Read her work here. + “Print is dead.” This was proclaimed, and loudly—shouted from … Continued
