on Colin Wilson
At some point in my senior year of high school I told my parents that I wanted to go to college, and they shrugged. It...
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pockets and watches
I try to wear jeans or jeans-like trousers whenever possible — “five-pocket style,” it’s sometimes called, the...
last round with Shirky
So to get to the heart of the matter that I’ve been discussing in the previous two posts: I doubt that Clay Shirky...
Shirky and me, continued
So, again, how do those exciting autobiographical revelations from my last post relate to Clay Shirky’s ideas about...
Shirky and me
My suspicions of Clay Shirky’s techno-optimism — detailed in several recent posts on this blog — have a genuine...
the future of memoir
In one of my classes we've been reading and discussing three autobiographical stories — three versions of...