Articles by Emily Colette Wilkinson
December 6, 2010
Tis the Season: Micro-Volunteering 1
Imagine how many volunteer hours you could log if volunteering was as easy as playing a game of FarmVille or watching a video on YouTube. Now it is, thanks to Ben Rigby and the other folks at Sparked (formerly The Extraordinaries). Sparked directs you to challenges suited to your skills and interests submitted by nonprofits [...]
October 13, 2010
NO MA’AM: Were You Aware Of It? 1
Who’s afraid of Amazonian masterhood?: NO MA’AM is (National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood).
October 2, 2010
Lemuel Gulliver Redux 0
Eighteenth century literature lives: This Christmas, Jack Black will play Gulliver in an adaption of Jonathan Swift‘s Gulliver’s Travels. See the preview here.
September 28, 2010
Rote She Wrote 0
At The NYT Mag, Virginia Heffernan‘s “Drill, Baby, Drill” explores the possibility that drills and memorization might not be quite as oppressive as some of the kinder, gentler pedagogues of our time suggest and offers a list of aps to help aspiring rote learners (Nota Bene: VerseByHeart).
September 24, 2010
Sit Down, Stephen Fry. 0
Stuart Jeffries at The Guardian: Stephen Fry gives stand-up comedy a go at the Royal Albert Hall but doesn’t quite have the punchlines for it.
September 23, 2010
Lady Boxers at the LRB 0
If you didn’t like Elif Batuman‘s gut-punch to MFA writing (“Get A Real Degree”) in this issue of the London Review of Books, might I suggest Jenny Diski’s cudgeling of self-help lit in the LRB’s Diary essay?
