The Norwegian Free Speech Foundation is organizing a competition for Norwegian high school students. I was thrilled to learn that they  link to my text on writing to inspire the participants! Click here, and scroll all the way down.

I am on leave in 2013/14 and will focus all my attention on my academic work. So I am taking a break from my column writing. Time to write a book, not just short texts!

I have finally posted the text of my column “Writing Is Thinking” here. If you are interested in the topic, you can read two talks I have given for graduate students at Duke on the same topic. The first is called “The Fantasy of the Clear Day” (2011) and the second is called “Writing for Others, Or, What I have learned about Academic Writing from Writing for Newspapers” (2013). Links or pdf to both are here.