Category Archives: Ideas and Opinions

Epic Interview With David Lau

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Ed Battistella

Poet, essayist and film-maker David Lau, the coeditor of Lana Turner: A Magazine of Poetry and Opinion visted Southern Oregon University on May 19 for a series of readings and informal visits with students. Lau writes what could be called … Continue reading →

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Orson Scott Card

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Ed Battistella

This post doesn’t really have anything to do with the class, but it does have to do with writers. Sort of. This weekend, I was reading a collection of short stories by Orson Scott Card, the author of Ender’s Game, … Continue reading →

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Who Needs Newspapers?

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Ed Battistella

Ashlanders Paul Steinle and Sara Brown are on a literary pilgrimage to answer the question Who Needs Newspapers? They have journalistic backgrounds—Sara was vice president of human resources at The Columbian in Vancouver, Washington and manager of organization development at … Continue reading →

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Paper idea and research

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Ed Battistella

The idea of literary censorship interests me. I didn’t really give it a second thought until recently, however. Sometime over the course of my studies at SOU, I had a professor who had recommended Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. I … Continue reading →

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