Alissa Wilkinson

<a href="http://www.alissawilkinson.com">Alissa Wilkinson</a> founded The Curator in 2008 and was its editor for two years. She now teaches writing and humanities a <a href="http://www.tkc.edu">The Ki

Suburban slums?

Mar 19, 2009 1 min read suburbia urban planning

From Miller-McCune: The Slumming of Suburbia [http://www.miller-mccune.com/article/the-slumming-of-suburbia-994]. > To be sure, the low-income drift to suburbia has less to do with bucolic appeal and more to do with

Other than “eat paper”

Mar 18, 2009 1 min read recession writing

From The Guardian: Don’t get depressed: A writer’s guide to surviving the recession [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/feb/16/recession-writers-authors] . > 1.Write in English, British, or

Say what?

Mar 18, 2009 1 min read

From The Economist: English is coming [http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13103967]. > The evidence points to the imminent collapse of the European Union’s official language policy,

Proposals for a new Paris

Mar 17, 2009 1 min read Nicolas Sarkozy Paris urban planning

From the New York Times: A New Paris, as Dreamed by Planners [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/arts/design/17paris.html]. > Hand it to the French. Who else would pick

To Kindle or Not to Kindle? That’s not really the question.

Mar 16, 2009 1 min read books

From Inside Higher Ed: The Reader [http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee233]. > A willingness to incorporate the Kindle into my routines does not mean abandoning print, any more than giving up