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...Internet to encourage potential readers to return to books. The Press now has a blog and a Facebook.com page. Traffic is still minimal: the blog averages about 200 hits a day. Harvard University Press’ Twitter.com has over 1200 followers; Yale’s has over 1600. Blog posts and tweets announce information pertaining to everything from restaurant shout-outs to news stories—be they about publishing or another, totally unrelated subject. “It’s a good way to get the news out quickly and informally,” Senior Publicist Andrew Battle...
...John Henry Days” (2001), a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and “Apex Hides the Hurt” (2006) have been highly lauded for Whitehead’s comedic command of language and his ability to create interesting conceits that explore race in a post-racial world. Leader-Picone says, “I think the African-American literary tradition is incredibly rich and I think that he moves it forward while also drawing deeply from it.” Recently, he even took shots at Professor of English James Wood, harnessing his comedic touch in a vicious...
...years he would juggle his careers as educator and father, while completing his first major published work.Harding’s debut novel, “Tinkers,” published this past January, was the product of various scraps of writing—from a 4x6 notebook to Post-It notes and scratch paper. Harding refers to this haphazard production strategy as “guerrilla writing.”“I learned to drop right into the mental space,” he says. “When I had two free minutes, I would write...
...that's where I credit Facebook, making that first introduction, being the icebreaker." Overall, fraternity memberships at CU are up 65% since the organizations moved off campus in 2005. "We just finished a huge rush last fall," Stine says. And came in under budget, too. "When we did the post-market analysis and asked, 'How did you find out about the fraternities?,' overwhelmingly, kids said 'the Internet...
...share best practices." Randi Weingarten, the president of the union, argues that a national-standards approach would help students while still allowing teachers to be creative. "Abundant evidence suggests that common, rigorous standards lead to more students reaching higher levels of achievement," she wrote in a recent Washington Post Op-Ed piece. "Just as different pianists can look at the same music and bring to it unique interpretations and flourishes, various teachers working from a common standard should be able to do the same...