Author: El Portal
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More from Jim O’Donnell: Egypt, Day One-Around the World in Eighty Years
Egypt, Day One-Around the World in Eighty Years.
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15 Words you never knew came from literature (Infographic)
http://visual.ly/track.php?q=http://visual.ly/15-words-you-never-knew-came-literature&slug=15-words-you-never-knew-came-literature
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Jack Williamson Endowed Chair Reading and Lecture
Please welcome this year’s Jack Williamson Endowed Chair to campus. Jim O’Donnell is an acclaimed travel writer and photographer. He is a former field archaeologist and conservation specialist. His work has appeared in National Geographic Maps, New Mexico Magazine, Vrai Magazine, Boots-n-All, Perceptive Travel, Taos News, Destinations Travel, Water Matters!, The Ambler, Arrival, Public News…
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These days, writing isn’t a career. It’s a rich man’s hobby (Telegraph)
Can writers still make a career out of writing? Does writing exclude working or middle class writers from its ranks? Is writing a rich man’s sport? Toby Young believes writing has become the hobby of the wealthy or those with comfortable retirement pensions (see excerpt below). These days, you need a substantial private income –…
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Influence and Homage: When Walt Whitman Met Oscar Wilde
It’s hard to imagine a meeting between two celebrities like Whitman and Wilde. However, history is full of surprises. During his stay in America, the youthful Wilde met with the aging poet Whitman. This meeting between Whitman and Wilde made a lasting impression on Wilde and how he handled his celebrity status. David M. Friedman’s…
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A Sample of Jim O’Donnell’s Work
Check out the photo essay and YouTube video of Jim O’Donnell’s recent hike to the Untersulzbachtal Glacier in Austria. Melting Glaciers in Austria — Hiking the Untersulzbachtal
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Jack Williamson Endowed Chair Events (Spring 2015)
Jim O’Donnell will be starting the new year as the Jack Williamson Endowed Chair. O’Donnell writes travel literature using his background in cultural anthropology. ENMU will be hosting two major events while he is here: Reading on Friday, 23 January at 2pm in JWLA 112 (the new lecture hall) Lecture on Thursday, 29 January at…
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Silencing Rivers by Jade Smith
I reached down to the bottom of the back bar. I poured another tequila shot and slid it down the crumbling lacquer to Marcos. He didn’t look down as he caught it. He had been sitting there the entire night watching me tend. I wiped the tables down and I could feel his body shift…
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El Portal’s First Web Feature
Check out El Portal‘s very first web feature (“Silencing Rivers”) by Jade Smith. Our hope is to publish a web feature every month between August and May. If you have any questions about El Portal‘s web features, please feel free to contact the editor at el.portal@enmu.edu.
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Best Books of the 21st Century (USC Rossier)
What do you guys think? Anything missing from this list? What should be excluded from this list? Leave your suggestions in a comment. (Check out the original feature.) Original Source: http://rossieronline.usc.edu/best-books-of-the-21st-century-infographic/
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What are we now? Modernist? Postmodernist? How about metamodernist?
The Metamodernist Manifesto by Luke Turner 1. We recognise oscillation to be the natural order of the world. 2. We must liberate ourselves from the inertia resulting from a century of modernist ideological naivety and the cynical insincerity of its antonymous bastard child. 3. Movement shall henceforth be enabled by way of an oscillation between…
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English (Urban Dictionary Definition)
English. A language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages, and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.
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The World’s Greatest Storytellers (According to Raconteur)
Check out the original feature at Raconteur.
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Thinking West: Sci-Fi Growing Up
What happened to classic sci-fi? What happened to the fiction that spanned the known galaxy, hopping from star system to star system? What happened to the fiction gleaming with technological wonders and an optimistic view of the future? What happened to the fiction that imagined boundless frontiers amongst the stars and those spaces between stars…
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