Tag: relationships
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The Video Essay
Anxiety and Relationship Goals in the Video Essay I teach First Year Writing courses at St. John’s University, and for the first time this semester, I assigned what we called a video essay. I’ve previously asked students to create short documentary films before, but I decided to make the video essay an option after the…
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Summer Camp, Complicated Relationships, and Maine: Jane Roper’s Eden Lake
In order to win Jane Roper’s novel Eden Lake I had to agree to read the book and participate in the accompanying Goodreads discussion as a part of The Next Best Book Club. I am a finicky reader who has probably put down at least as many books as I’ve begun, and so I wanted…
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Love Can Be Complicated: A Cartoon from Karin Schmitt
As I’ve written before, I was the sort of guy–even before all the eighties romantic comedies I ingested–who could believe I’d fallen in love with a girl even though I’d never talked to her before. This happened more than once to be sure. Sometimes I think this is something everyone experiences to some degree,…
Bill Torgerson 