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Feb 12 • Phil Christman
Literary-Culture Arguments That Absolutely Never Go Anywhere
and never will
Feb 8 • Phil Christman
The Library of America Must Commission The Following Volumes Immediately Or I Will _____
my name is rusty shackleford. this building is wired
Feb 5 • Phil Christman
Some Essays I Want to Read But Not To Write
in case you have some spare time
Feb 1 • Phil Christman
Teaching Diary, January
I realize that I post about a lot of things here in a haze of enthusiasm and then revisit them glancingly or never.
Jan 29 • Phil Christman
Some Ways Clergy Should and Shouldn't Be
Besides the obvious.
Jan 25
The Nice Minnesotans
When I moved from Michigan to Minnesota in 2003, one of the first things people told me to watch out for was “Minnesota nice”—the kind of frozen…
Jan 23 • Phil Christman
Writing For "Traditional Magazines": What Little I Know
My flip answer to the question “how do you pitch an editor” is that if you figure out a generally effective theory of pitching, you will be the most…
Jan 22 • Phil Christman
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