Kid Stuff
How to build a children’s museum. Design for Kids
Briefly Noted
Jan|Feb 2008
Maple Leaf Ragging
David Jones C’63 G’64
Prisoners, Poems, and Principles
Why is attorney Marc Falkoff representing detainees at Guantánamo Bay and publishing a book of their poetry?
True Adventures: Love & Marriage, Parenthood, and Careers
All you need to know about marriage, kids, and careers
“It Does Not Get Any Better Than That”
How we did it. The University & Urban Revival
Pride, Prejudice, Maus, and More in Writers House Online Book Groups
Writers House sponsors online-reading groups
Briefly Noted
Nov|Dec 2007
Polonius Was Right!
James Scurlock W’93
What Is Dirt?
Literary censorship from Flaubert to Nabokov.
Briefly Noted
Sep|Oct 2007
Never Been There, Never Done That
Husband (check). Kids (check). Now where’s my life of adventure?
Channeling the Schuylkill
“That’s the thing about this river: You have to imagine it to see.”
Reading More Than Menus
Incoming freshmen to read Omnivore’s Dilemma.
What Would Orwell Say?
Language lessons. Words that Work.
Briefly Noted
July|Aug 2007
Bill Boggs Takes on Success
Success secret-sharer Bill Boggs C’62 ASC’64.
The Secret of Our Success
Women can achieve a fulfilling blend of motherhood and career—just maybe not perfection. And that’s OK, says journalist and mother Leslie Bennetts CW’70, in an excerpt from her new book, The Feminine Mistake.
A Writer by Any Other Gender
Feminist Toril Moi on not being a “woman writer.”
Out of Armenia
Poems political and personal by Gregory Djanikian C’71.
Faith Amid the Deathworks
An appreciation of the late Philip Rieff.
On the Road Again
Kelly Writers House celebrates Kerouac classic
Gilding the Villa
The money-pit in paradise. Vizcaya
Free! At Last
Interview Lorene Cary C’78 G’78 on Free!