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Coming Soon: Red Wedge, Issue #2

February 27, 2016 by Scott McLemee Leave a Comment

The second print issue of Red Wedge -- the tangible, magazine-format component of a larger project dedicated to "rekindling the revolutionary imagination" which includes a website, conference presentations, and who knows what all else -- goes to the printer in a few weeks, so it's a good time to reserve a copy. Or, better yet, to subscribe. The theme is "Art Against Global Apartheid," as explained … [Read more...]

Ecolalia

February 20, 2016 by Scott McLemee Leave a Comment

Umberto Eco died yesterday (Friday) at the age of 84. I've written about his work on occasion over the years, including something on his analysis of the comic strip Peanuts, That's not online. (My piece, that is.) As for Eco's commentary on Charles Schultz's work, it was published in Italian in 1963, and now available on the New York Review of Books site. It's too good not to quote: … [Read more...]

That’s What That’swhatshesaid Said

February 9, 2016 by Scott McLemee Leave a Comment

The show did go on -- despite a cease-and-desist order arriving an hour before Friday night's curtain for That'swhatshesaid in Seattle. Erin Pike's one-person, one-hour performance incorporates female roles from the most-produced plays of the 2014-15 season, as determined by American Theater magazine. The script was assembled ("written" doesn't seem like quite the right word here) by Courtney … [Read more...]

Niche marketing, ne plus ultra…

February 5, 2016 by Scott McLemee Leave a Comment

Apropos of nothing in particular.... because if I don't give in to impulse more readily, this blog is never going to take off.... a selection of offerings from the surprisingly crowded market for cat Tarot:   from Elizabeth Wilson, Cultural Passions: "I don’t believe it’s possible to tell the future [...] However when, in the 1980s and 1990s, I gave “readings” at fundraising … [Read more...]

Scott McLemee

Scott McLemee writes the weekly column Intellectual Affairs for Inside Higher Ed and is part of the editorial staff for Jacobin magazine.

From 1995 until 2001, he was contributing editor for Lingua Franca. Between 2001 and 2005, he covered scholarship in the humanities as senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has served on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and in 2004 received the NBCC's award for excellence in reviewing.

He is willing to write about himself in the third person, if necessary, but tries not to make a habit of it

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