Here are some sad/funny things that writers, intellectuals, scholars, and artists say in response to other people’s creations in written comments or workshop settings that, for some reason, sound to them like valuable, incisive engagements, but really, really aren’t. If commentators restrained themselves and spared others these insights, it would…
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This brief memo discusses the crucial but somewhat esoteric “statement of purpose” required in PhD applications in the humanities and social sciences: what they are supposed to accomplish, what they ought to contain, and ways they can be more (and less) effective.
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