I’d like to address the topic of Comparative Media Studies, a field N. Katherine Hayles introduces early in her 2012 book How We Think and that she revisits periodically throughout the progression of her arguments in the book. Hayles draws on a variety of examples where Comparative Media Studies (CMS from here on) is integrated into a collegiate seminar, with … Continue reading Comparative Media Studies
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Novel Excerpt- March 2017
I've been reluctant to share anything from my current novel-project-in-progress on this blog, but I don't see the following simple paragraphs making many waves since, you know, we don't meet any actual characters. To be frank-- the novel explores small towns. It asks questions. It ventures answers. It plays with groups of people who aren't quite … Continue reading Novel Excerpt- March 2017
Ambedo (A Chapter from A Novel Written Long Ago…)
Ambedo JD Richter To be successful in Millennial America without sacrificing soul and artistry—that was the goal, the tightrope to be walked in a concrete land of parking garages and traffic lights, where everything is bought and sold, where a person’s selfhood is bartered for attention and defined to the outside world as a collection … Continue reading Ambedo (A Chapter from A Novel Written Long Ago…)
Writing Matters
In a few weeks, I'll be presenting at a writing classroom and pedagogy conference called Writing Matters. This year's theme is "The Work Of Writing," and will feature panels and presentations from a variety of K-16 teachers. This semester, I've been teaching my Freshman composition courses at SUNY Cortland through a blog, which we utilize … Continue reading Writing Matters
Poem Written On Simon & Shuster’s “Handbook For Writers.”
I do not wish to utter even a single cliché until the day on which I die. I wish that utterance to be "I did well," or "I was very happy," or perhaps even a cliché utilizing the phrases "well-spent" or "well-lived" or "I gave all." I think, right now, those are clichés I can live with, … Continue reading Poem Written On Simon & Shuster’s “Handbook For Writers.”
Greed Is Not Good
It's a now-normal 21st-century anxiety, but it wasn't always like this. Perhaps it was my wide-eyed, dangerously-sincere reading of Don DeLillo's novel Mao II as a high school senior that did me in, but I've always harbored an uneasy fascination with cult of personality figures. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, even Steve Jobs, Jon Gruden, Elon Musk. It's a … Continue reading Greed Is Not Good
Comparative Media Studies
I'd like to address the topic of Comparative Media Studies, a field N. Katherine Hayles introduces early in her 2012 book How We Think and that she revisits periodically throughout the progression of her arguments in the book. Hayles draws on a variety of examples where Comparative Media Studies (CMS from here on) is integrated into a collegiate seminar, with … Continue reading Comparative Media Studies
NaNoWriMo 2016
This year's NaNoWriMo (National Novel-Writing Month) is in full swing, and I'm working hard toward the 50,000-word goal for the 30 days of writing. I've got a major advantage, as I've been working on a project for a few months now, off-and-on, and had about 20,000 words prior to the month's beginning. In Syracuse, we … Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2016
Writing, Composition and Deliberate Living
Lately I’ve been re-reading an old favorite I first read midway through college, right when I was just beginning to locate myself as a writer: Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The book raises a number of issues I won’t even begin to detail in this post, but I wanted to pay … Continue reading Writing, Composition and Deliberate Living
DeLillo, Brand Names and Post-Postmodernism
The following is an edited and re-worked excerpt of a seminar paper I wrote for a 21st-Century Fiction class at the University at Buffalo in the spring of 2016. The suburbanization of the post-war United States proved a bounty for corporations just beginning to realize the means to tighten their grasp on the key to … Continue reading DeLillo, Brand Names and Post-Postmodernism
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