by Mary | Nov 27, 2010 | DOC
Last September, I had a grand time with the incoming Honors students at Rutgers University. A journalist named John Connelly asked if he could do a follow-up interview about the new novel. The interview will be published in the Rutgers Review in December, 2010, but...
by Mary | Nov 24, 2010 | Current events
I deplore anti-intellectualism. I cringe when a somebody brags about “going with my gut” or sneers at smartypants Ph.D. eggheads who think climate change or natural selection are real. Unlike a majority of my fellow citizens, I actually even like that our...
by Mary | Nov 15, 2010 | Just for fun!
People always ask writers where they get their ideas. What I want to know is, where do microbiologists get their ideas? What kind of person looks at a bug and thinks, “Hey, I bet if we isolate protein from a bunch of cockroach brains and sprinkle it on stuff,...
by Mary | Nov 12, 2010 | A THREAD OF GRACE
Several readers have told me about a N.Y. Times article entitled “Italy’s Treatment of Jews in World War II is Reconsidered.” I just read the article, and I think it’s fair. Mussolini’s government promulgated anti-semitic race laws in...
by Mary | Nov 5, 2010 | Word Rants
Okay, this has just got to stop. Twice now, I’ve heard reporters on CNN use effort as a verb, as in, “I’m efforting to find out, Wolf!” No, darling. You are trying to find out. Or, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing, perhaps you...
