Kristin Scott

I came across (albeit 12 years after the fact) a fascinating concept: That there is “no regulon in the semiosphere” . . .
I’m currently reading Paris to the Moon, an excellent novel by Adam Gopnik, an American who moves to Paris with his wife and son in 1995 and chronicles some of his five-year reflections [...]

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A colleague’s blog turned me onto this very cool site, BookMooch.com, where you can give and get free books. It works on a point system that gives you points for each book item your inventory (for others to mooch) and send out a book. Points are higher for books sent to other countries, and you [...]

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I’m currently reading a book that was recommended by one of my students in the spring called Einstein’s Dreams, by Alan Lightman, physicist, novelist, and adjunct faculty member at MIT’s Program in Writing and Humanistic studies. Though I’m not quite half way through it yet, the novel provides a fictional peek into the dreams of [...]

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I’m currently reading the novel, The Binding Chair (or A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society), by Kathryn Harrison. While the book has received a healthy dose of criticism in regards to its fragmented narrative structure, which seems to cause some readers to trip, I personally think it reflects the novel’s content-that of two women [...]

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