And it’s official: the word hipster finally means absolutely nothing now that it has showed up as a shelving category in a bookstore in the Hamptons.
The Supreme Leader in Iran has decided to attack “poisonous” books and likened these books to “addictive drugs.” Also, censors frequently ask publishers to replace the words “kiss”, “beloved”, “wine” ,”drunk”, “pork”, “dance”, “rape”, “dog” and “meditation.”
I love this Letters of Note blog so much. Here, a letter from Hunter S. to a biographer: “(Y)ou better get fitted for a black eyepatch in case one of yours gets gouged out by a bushy-haired stranger in a dimly-lit parking lot.”
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I saw that SmartSet piece when it first came out and my response then, as now, is that if universities pay grad students/non-tenure line faculty/junior faculty enough money to be able to afford business attire, then maybe they can expect said people to wear business attire in the classroom. But don’t expect a person to dress for success when you’re paying them just enough to starve on.
I’m just jealous because I can’t get a job as a humanities professor. Also, I own more than one jacket with elbow pads.
Um. Regarding the Iran bit, I think you mean “censors” not “sensors.”
Thanks! Fixed.
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