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NC Women’s Summit Proves I’m not Alone (in the job search)

September 27, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] In the fancy new Talley Center building at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, the second annual NC Women’s Summit was held on September 26, 2014. Hosted by Women AdvaNCe, “an independent, nonpartisan educational institute dedicated to improving the lives of North Carolina’s women and families,” alongside the NCSU Women’s Center, and the UNC Chapel Hill Southern Oral History Program, the summit set out primarily to bring together NC women and foster conversation that might lead to further activism. […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: non-profits, women's health, working families

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Pynchon’s cartoons

September 26, 2014 by William Eaton

One of the things I enjoy about Thomas Pynchon is the space he gives to cartoons and comic strips in his books. His last novel, Bleeding Edge, (2013) is a zany celebration of television culture – sit-coms, made-for-tv-movies and series, cartoons, the lot. For those of us who grew up in the 70s, one of the characters is addicted to the  Brady Bunch. For the cable tv and satellite generations, there are references to the Game Boy spinoff Pokémon and […]

Categories: Catherine Vigier, ZiR • Tags: capitalism, literature

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Australia: unaccountably overlooked and packed with unappreciated wonders – Part III of III

September 25, 2014 by William Eaton

Part I – “Australia’s curious sense of disconnectedness” is about the Aussie people, a “beguiling fusion of America and Britain” – 11 Sept 2014 Part II – “It is an environment that wants your dead”  – Bryson writes about his travels through the Australian Outback – 18 Sept 2014   They are “unaccountably overlooked,” in this land “packed with unappreciated wonders,” Bill Bryson comments on Australia’s Aborigines. In a Sunburned Country Bryson humorously, seriously, and poignantly writes about the great continent Down […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR

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Remote Buffooneries

September 23, 2014 by William Eaton

According to The Poetry Foundation, Donald Justice (1925 – 2004) was “one of the twentieth century’s most quietly influential poets.” He was a beloved teacher to many of the current greats, including Pulitzer Prize-winners Rita Dove and Mark Strand. A poet who can actually teach others is exceedingly rare because the task asks for a great deal of generosity, a trait that the very private métier often lacks. His own work holds a quiet reverence without being dull or academic. […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR

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Learning about ourselves through children’s books

September 22, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

For several years I had the pleasure of working with children’s books. While I did not write them, I did get an insight into the ways books are meant to introduce children to society. Because they are made with such an educational purpose, they offer an insight into the values that are important for the community that produced them. This is one of the reasons I was sorry to miss the New York Public Library’s exhibition on children’s books, The ABC of It: Why […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, education, literature, New York Public Library

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Zeteo is Overhearing

September 21, 2014 by William Eaton

  The Atlantic Theater Company in New York is currently presenting a new musical, Found, based on “on scores of surprising and eccentric discarded notes and letters that have been ‘found’ in the real world by every-day people.” I do not know why the Web announcement puts “found” in quotes, and I am wary of musicals, but the very idea of this piece has caused me re-open one of my several files of found language. In this case these are […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: family, friendship, jobs, marriage, theater

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“It’s On Us”: Carrying the Weight of Sexual Assault

September 20, 2014 by William Eaton

The Obama Administration has released another Public Service Announcement against sexual assault, this time with the slogan “It’s On Us.” “To stop sexual assault, to get in the way before it happens, to get a friend home safe, to not blame the victim, to look out for each other, to not look the other way, to stand up, to step in, to take responsibility…” Their previous star-packed PSA featured the slogan “One is Too Many.” It notably featured an all male […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: sexual assault

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Normal Relationships

September 19, 2014 by William Eaton

“Normal relationships are dynamic and unpredictable most of the time, while human beings are fickle.” This statement was made by South African judge Thokozile Masipa when she gave her reasons for acquitting star athlete Oscar Pistorius of the charge that he murdered his girlfriend. Her words seem to refer to the reports of conflict in Pistorius’s relationship with top model Reeva Steenkamp (pictured at right) and to text messages in which she said she was scared of Pistorius. Judge Masipa […]

Categories: Catherine Vigier, ZiR • Tags: murder, relationships, women

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It is an environment that wants you dead – II of III

September 18, 2014 by William Eaton

Part I – “Australia’s curious sense of disconnectedness” is about the Aussie people, a “beguiling fusion of America and Britain” – 11 Sept 2014 Part III – “Unaccountably overlooked and packed with unappreciated wonders” – is about Aborigines, earth’s oldest culture and stromatolites – earth’s oldest life form – 25 Sept 2014 In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson writes about the Australian continent’s vast emptiness. “You cannot say you have been to Australia until you have crossed the Outback,” declares Bryson. “It is […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: travel

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