Suggested Reading

Zadie Smith is S.M.A.R.T.
Lucas sent me the article. So, Lucas is smart too. Her sense that readers need to engage as much as writers do, even if that engagement is qualitatively different is very much worth cramming down students throats, and is a reminder to writers that there are still people who know how to read.

Drove by a local subdivision last night, name of Meadowdale Heights. Now, kids, Make. Up. Your. Mind.

Best deconstruction of this moniker wins a free dinner on me. (But, you can Not apply D's work on the proper name.) (NB: in that context, "free dinner on me" signifies, "a dinner for which I will pay," and not "a dinner for which I will pay and which will be served on my person." Just to be, you know, "clear.") (NB2: Dinner will be Chinese take-out. I'm a bit strapped.)