Len Gutkin
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Editor @ChronicleReview. Author of *Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present* @uvapress.
Baltimore/DC
Joined December 2016
Grateful to have the chance to expatiate on activism and scholarship in the newest Social Research:
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This evening in DC at the amazing Lost City Books: I'll be talking to Francesca Wade about her new Gertude Stein: An Afterlife.
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An excellent interview by Evan Goldstein with Jill Lepore:
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The prosecutorial culture was “miserable.” She stayed, but has come to regret her silence at the time.
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Read the whole interview here:
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The former university president on how the sector got into trouble.
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Evan Goldstein and I talked with Gordon Gee, who among other things is consulting for Ohio State's Chase Center. I'm very interested in the contradictions (and possible promise) of such centers:
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The empirical evidence seems quite clear that student evaluations of teaching (SET) mechanically lead to grade inflation and lowering of standards. https://t.co/prophieIjw
Back when i was a professor, early on I used to get bad reviews occasionally. My institution was extremely critical of this. So, what did I discover was the easy solution? I watered down my course and made everything easier. Magically, I started to get near perfect evaluations in
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Documents obtained by @gav_escott shed new light on the debacle at Texas A&M, where an English instructor was fired because her course material - specifically her emphasis on LGBTQ themes - purportedly did not align with her course description...
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RIP David Bellos whose biography of Perec is so good someone ripped out the chapter explaining Life A User’s Manual from the San Francisco library’s copy.
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“The odds of recovering from chemical dependencies as crippling as Ferrara’s are infinitesimal; the odds of getting a steady stream of projects off the ground for almost fifty years as an independent filmmaker are not much better.” —@NickPinkerton
https://t.co/gGGbD8oxCN
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Abel Ferrara’s addiction to filmmaking
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I'm grateful to the Editors of The Point for inviting me to contribute to this tribute to Jonathan Lear. What an elegant and moving set of reflections.
New online: Robert Pippin, @AgnesCallard, @jonnythakkar, @BaskinJon, @dadsein, Ben Jeffery, @TBartscherer, Laura Baudot, Leon Wieseltier and J.M. Coetzee remember Jonathan Lear. https://t.co/0EsmSsZV4Q
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The great Linda Kinstler reviews Natasha Wheatley’s new book for the NYRB: https://t.co/34xEsBDMjl
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Reposting my op-ed on the grave threat of AI use to students’ cognitive development from earlier today with a much more perspicuous headline 🙏 https://t.co/eLgmgjxYin
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Artificial intelligence threatens students’ most basic skills. If they lose their ability to understand what they read, will they lose their ability to think?
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For @nytopinion I wrote about how A.I. in schools will render our students subcognitive. https://t.co/D9o2vDPnU7
nytimes.com
Artificial intelligence threatens students’ most basic skills. If they lose their ability to understand what they read, will they lose their ability to think?
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Glad to see the new issue of @hedgehogreview is out, featuring inter alia my review of THE SLEEPERS, the novel by @FOMO_sacer. Go pick up the mag now; I look forward to posting the review if/when it goes live online.
Our new issue is out soon. Subscribe now to get it delivered. https://t.co/8nOsooCY1L
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Sheldon Pollock and Arjun Appadurai, each of whom was formed in one way or another by U Chicago, on what could be lost:
chronicle.com
A great university could be reduced to a shell of its former self.
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That’s how people talked back then.
chronicle.com
A squabble between two important groups has real stakes.
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Sheldon Pollock and Arjun Appadurai, each of whom was formed in one way or another by U Chicago, on what could be lost:
chronicle.com
A great university could be reduced to a shell of its former self.
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Opinion: A few incendiary tweets reveal a deep difference of opinion.
chronicle.com
A squabble between two important groups has real stakes.
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