The ALSC’s most recent issue of Forum, “The Latest Illiteracy,” has garnered a mention in Mark Bauerlein’s blog on The Chronicle of Higher Education Website. In his piece, Bauerlein assesses the latest debate over William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White’s The Elements of Style, coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of its release. His [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘ALSC in the Media’
March 9, 2009
Lennon Talks Mailer on NYRB Podcast
On February 16, the New York Review of Books featured a podcast with ALSC member J. Michael Lennon. Lennon is currently working on an authorized biography of Norman Mailer, who was the guest speaker at the Eleventh Annual ALSC Conference in 2005. In the interview, Lennon discusses Mailer’s fascination with uncovering “new pockets of American [...]
December 23, 2008
ALSC Officer Contributes to National Conversation on Workforce Reduction
New York Times reporter Matt Richtel has interviewed ALSC Secretary-Treasurer William Flesch for an article on alternatives to workforce reduction in the current economy. Speaking in his capacity as head of the faculty senate at Brandeis University, Flesch is quoted on his suggestion that the school’s faculty give up 1 percent of their pay. “What [...]
