Let’s just be honest here: it takes a lot to get me off my ass. I’m not lazy, per se, just not an “above and beyond” kind of girl. (Feel free to disagree here.) But when I finished Jeff Seglin’s column writing class and had already published two small pieces, I began to suspect subliminal [...]
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Professor Profile: Jeff Seglin
September 12th, 2009 No Comments
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From Emerson to Aruba, a mystical journey on the T
February 27th, 2009 1 Comment
This has to stop. The Aruba posters are warping my mind, threatening my future at Emerson. It all started during at the beginning of spring semester, when January seemed to drag on into infinity, with its legions of cancerous looking ice piles and snowfall after snowfall. Shivering and face-chappin’ it all the way to the [...]
Tags: Alexis · Aruba · Billy Joel · Jeff Seglin · Will and Grace set
Witty Writing + Awkward Subject = Thoughtful Dialogue?
February 2nd, 2009 No Comments
Big news, blogosphere! I’m happy to announce that today will see the launch of a fun and informative website: Sex Appeal. “But whatever is it about?” you may ask ironically. Read the Rest…Well, “not only is it about sex,” says creator Julia Keosaian, but “it’s about open discussion. Taking sex to a more educated level. [...]
Tags: emerson MA · emerson MFA · Jeff Seglin · kim · Sex Appeal · websites
Hot Winners and Halloweeners!
November 17th, 2008 No Comments
Congratulations to Emmett Stone, who won our Halloween Costume Contest by a landslide! (with more than 50% of the popular vote, just like Obama) Emmett Stone is a third year MFA candidate in nonfiction at Emerson College. Rumor has it that his thesis, a collection of linked essays, concerns philosophical interrogations of memory. And perhaps, [...]
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On Greenery
November 12th, 2008 1 Comment
A recent survey of subscribers to Hearst Magazines publications (among which are Cosmo, Esquire, and Good Housekeeping), revealed that 43% of respondents would be willing to pay more for a magazine printed on recycled paper, and 39% would be willing to pay more for “a magazine committed to eco-friendly practices”. Now, in some ways this [...]
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Vote Now! Vernacular’s Best "Literary" Costume Contest
November 8th, 2008 2 Comments
Now that the election is over, I’m sure you’ve been worried that you might not get another opportunity to cast your vote in such an important decision. Perhaps you were even concerned that if you didn’t flex that muscle of enfranchisement, it would atrophy into a dangerous state of inaction and apathy. Worry no more. [...]
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Emerson Professor Reviews: Jeff Seglin and Pam Painter
September 8th, 2008 No Comments
Jeff Seglin (publishing) Jeff Seglin is a columnist for the The New York Times Syndicate which, according to his Ratemyprofessors.com reviews, automatically bestows on him teaching excellence. He teaches Column Writing, popular among MAs and MFAs alike. This class is the single most useful one to take assuming you want to, you know, actually publish [...]
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