God's dice always have a lucky roll. ~Sophocles, Fragments l, 763 To round out the week, let's play some dice. Your assignment is to fold several paper cubes (here's a pdf template, and here's an online tool for generating printable... Continue reading

Every time I go to Myanmar*, my first stop is the Yangon book market, which consists of several "shops"—blankets spread on the thronged sidewalk—piled with hundreds of volumes, many of which are tattered English primers dating from the days of... Continue reading

Great artists steal. For today's assignment, let's continue to play with the notions of indeterminacy and appropriation as tools to combat the twin demons of The Anxiety of Influence and The Blank Page (which I find it oddly helpful to... Continue reading

Thanks to Stacey and the BAP blog for the chance to be this week's guest blogger. I thought I'd use this space and time to suggest some writing assignments and invite you to post your responses on your own blogs,... Continue reading