m on October 29th, 2010

During coursework, I took a class co-offered both at my uni and at UIC. As a co-offered course, it was also co-taught, and one of the profs, Walter Benn Michaels, at one point, as is his wont, issued a seeming non sequitur of a command: “raise your hands if either of your parents is a [...]

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m on June 9th, 2009

[It's weird that the same week I buy something from J. Crew for the first time in some 7 years, I also stumble across this old article of mine, originally published in the Chicago Maroon on 30 September 1997. I'll wait for you to calculate its age. In a further stroke of luck, I even [...]

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