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The Governor of Oregon in June, 2007, has introduced legislation to oversee and put regulations on the college textbook industry’s penchant for ripping off students. The bill would make it optional for students to purchase “bundled” textbooks–which usually means a book accompanied by a sealed (usually worthless) CD that jacks up the price about […]

Want to get in on the best pyramid scheme in business–and a legal one to boot??? Collect a bunch of previously published essays, short stories, poetry, and plays, throw them all together in a book, write a few paragraphs in the introduction on the purpose of the anthology–to get a hefty payout by requiring […]

You may note that there have been several book reviews here of books that may be of interest to English majors, creative writing majors, English education majors, and advanced ESL students. Right now this would be on a voluntary basis, but if you’d be interested in giving it a try, let me know via […]

For a change of pace from book reviews, here is a blog review–a blog I stumbled upon. Ouch! Those USB wires need to be tamed a bit. In any case, Claire’s blog is a good example of the personal blog. I didn’t pick it because it is the blog of all […]

Just to show you that modern masterpieces are not universally acclaimed, here are two excerpts from reviews of the second book in the ‘Rabbit Trilogy’ by John Updike. Aren’t you glad you aren’t a scientist, since if that were the case, you’d have to actually be able to prove your propositions (or at least try […]

Common sense dictates that some of the greatest writers who ever lived used simple paper and pen (or even some more primitive technology. One day, people may look back on our century, and be stunned that humans actually wrote their own material devolved from the ideas in their heads. You don’t have to […]