Elizabeth Donald Linkspam for April 2026 This newsletter was written on time. And then it didn’t send. Those responsible would have been sacked except they are me. On the second day of the AWP conference last month, Jim and I finally broke free to snag some lunch, and then I requested to do a couple of…
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Wait, where is February going?
Happy almost Valentine’s Day! Somehow I blinked, and it was Feb. 11 and I hadn’t sent out a newsletter yet. Who’s running this show? Those responsible will be sacked – oh yeah, that was me. As you can tell by the seriously-delayed newsletter, the semester is rolling. Three of my four classes are working on…
BookNotes: No books for you, come back when you’re 26
In what might be the silliest idea yet to protect young people from acknowledging the existence of sex, Corpus Christi, Texas has created two separate sections of its library: One for teens, as in ages 13-18, and another for “young adults,” for books appropriate for ages 18-25. That’s right. They are now restricting certain books…
January 2025 Linkspam: Happy New Year!
Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. — Samuel Clemens Remember when I said I greatly regretted taking on such a huge class overload for the fall? Well, it pretty much ate me for the last two months of 2024, and one of the things that fell through the cracks was this newsletter. So…
In which I run my mouth on someone else’s blog
I am part of the latest roundup on Sean Taylor’s Bad Girls Good Guys blog (and shush, I’m totally a good girl.) We’re talking about reading as children and how it affects us as adult readers and writers. I ran my mouth for a while (I know that shocks you) and I may expound on…