<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post1696025496428981855..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1696025496428981855/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-with-geraldine-monk-charlie.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3912552115392259559</id><published>2008-05-02T09:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-02T09:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sorry to hear about Jason Shinder. I only met him ...</title><summary type='text'>Sorry to hear about Jason Shinder. I only met him once at a dinner in NYC. I was too nonplussed to say anything at all during the day, and he on the other hand was quite voluble, and I envied his ability to speak and speak well (in public, I often can&#39;t speak a single word around strangers, so it must seem very word that I am so voluble as a commenter here). Shinder must have been in his very </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1696025496428981855/comments/default/3912552115392259559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1696025496428981855/comments/default/3912552115392259559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-with-geraldine-monk-charlie.html?showComment=1209736020000#c3912552115392259559' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-with-geraldine-monk-charlie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1696025496428981855' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1696025496428981855' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 02, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1108204877739025658</id><published>2008-05-01T22:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-01T22:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Specific reasons to remember Oppen,&quot; equals his o...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Specific reasons to remember Oppen,&quot; equals his oft-repeated biography? What about the goddamned work!?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1696025496428981855/comments/default/1108204877739025658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1696025496428981855/comments/default/1108204877739025658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-with-geraldine-monk-charlie.html?showComment=1209694560000#c1108204877739025658' title=''/><author><name>Josh_Hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04072181113771913036</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://static.flickr.com/79/244821860_f96b9d7e60_t.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-with-geraldine-monk-charlie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1696025496428981855' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1696025496428981855' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-385522224"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7852880269199714365</id><published>2008-05-01T19:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-01T19:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow, that was a weird 100 best movies list. I have...</title><summary type='text'>Wow, that &lt;I&gt;was&lt;/I&gt; a weird 100 best movies list. I have only two words. Point Break? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But I&#39;m glad Life of Brian is on there. That movie is brilliant.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1696025496428981855/comments/default/7852880269199714365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1696025496428981855/comments/default/7852880269199714365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-with-geraldine-monk-charlie.html?showComment=1209684480000#c7852880269199714365' title=''/><author><name>L. Trent</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12175950201511243122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_Z72h_EOVtoo/R8NntM3bl2I/AAAAAAAAAAY/QKFC8jdxSQA/S220/meglassesfeb08.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-with-geraldine-monk-charlie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1696025496428981855' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1696025496428981855' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1878720032"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6801222894430735413</id><published>2008-05-01T15:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-01T15:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What Billy said.  Why don&#39;t teachers get it?  They...</title><summary type='text'>What Billy said.  Why don&#39;t teachers get it?  They think their class is the only one that matters, or the only one that exists.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think I only finished half the books assigned me as an English major.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1696025496428981855/comments/default/6801222894430735413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1696025496428981855/comments/default/6801222894430735413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-with-geraldine-monk-charlie.html?showComment=1209671760000#c6801222894430735413' title=''/><author><name>Matt</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00791420971869885860</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-with-geraldine-monk-charlie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1696025496428981855' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1696025496428981855' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1864187319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-695863576303959764</id><published>2008-05-01T13:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-01T13:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes, Archer City is a trip (travel-wise), and . . ...</title><summary type='text'>Yes, Archer City is a trip (travel-wise), and . . . a trip (book-wise)!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I was at the stores in 2000.  I remember finding an issue of &lt;I&gt;Illiterati&lt;/I&gt; and a nice copy of a Helen Adam book.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1696025496428981855/comments/default/695863576303959764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1696025496428981855/comments/default/695863576303959764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-with-geraldine-monk-charlie.html?showComment=1209662040000#c695863576303959764' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-with-geraldine-monk-charlie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1696025496428981855' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1696025496428981855' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2363989815077595311</id><published>2008-05-01T10:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-01T10:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Is one book a week too much to ask?Yes, actually, ...</title><summary type='text'>Is one book a week too much to ask?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yes, actually, when it&#39;s one book a week in each of five or six classes. The author laments that 6-8 books a semester seems skimpy, not rigorous. In practice, though, giving students only a week to spend with a book means that their engagement with it is often shallow and superficial, in part because they have to rush through the reading to keep up, if</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1696025496428981855/comments/default/2363989815077595311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1696025496428981855/comments/default/2363989815077595311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-with-geraldine-monk-charlie.html?showComment=1209651060000#c2363989815077595311' title=''/><author><name>Billy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12487179504786033290</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-with-geraldine-monk-charlie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1696025496428981855' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1696025496428981855' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-455290033"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9109825694081101074</id><published>2008-05-01T08:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-01T08:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>McMurtry&#39;s bookstore in Archer City is wonderful, ...</title><summary type='text'>McMurtry&#39;s bookstore in Archer City is wonderful, tough to get to, but wonderful. Three years ago I drove from Boerne, TX back to Naropa in Boulder and stopped in to Booked Up ( that’s the name of the store) to see what all the hub-bub was about. I went to the main building, where there was a small office and a lady working who pointed to another building where the poetry was being housed. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1696025496428981855/comments/default/9109825694081101074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1696025496428981855/comments/default/9109825694081101074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-with-geraldine-monk-charlie.html?showComment=1209646740000#c9109825694081101074' title=''/><author><name>farfalla press</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09446212454796875908</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://a614.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/8/m_e4aa9fa7812c0f94eb3f12932f507eed.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-with-geraldine-monk-charlie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1696025496428981855' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1696025496428981855' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-176615294"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 01, 2008"/></entry></feed>