Category: Teaching
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Happy Things
1. One of the things I love lately is that when you do a search on “Christopher Barzak” at Amazon.com, the number two listing is Rufus Wainwright’s new album “Release the Stars”. This makes me ridiculously happy for some reason that, as Amazon says, customers who have pre-ordered my novel have gone on to buy…
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Hello, Goodbye
Back from New York City, which was wonderful as usual. So many things seen and done and eaten and heard, etc. Now I’m doing laundry and getting ready to pack, because starting tomorrow I’ll be in Cleveland for the next three days teaching at the Imagination Writing Workshop. I attended Imagination when I was 19…
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Potential blurbs?? (Updated)
I happened to stumble into myspace’s professor grading system and was laughing at some of the report cards student have given some of my old professor’s until I realized I could possibly be on this site too. Suddenly panicked, I searched for my name, and sure enough it was listed. I have no worries, though. …
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On getting what we need
Today, just when I was going through a period of wondering if I’m able to reach and help my students as much as I hope to, I got an email from my supervisor in the English department, asking me to come to his office when I’m free. So I wandered over just minutes ago to…