Jun
14

Update from Daytona

Alan Ackmann on June 14th, 2007

Hello loyal readers/intrepid first-timers/random browsers!  I just wanted to give a quick update from Daytona Beach, where (as my calendar indicates) I am grading AP English exams with 800 other high school and college instructors as we plow through a whopping 250,000+ essays.  Contractual stipulations prohibit me from sharing any specifics (not that I’d blab [...]

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Jun
3

Alan’s First Reading

Alan Ackmann on June 3rd, 2007

This Friday I had my first public reading since graduating from Arkansas, which makes it my first reading at DePaul University, my first in Chicago, my first since having actual _publications_, etc.  Of course, I was nervous.  I’ve been told I give a good reading–its the theater background, I think, and the pleasant benefit of [...]

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