Strokes

"What happened to the bold, kicky promise of writing instruction in the 1960s? The current conservative trend in composition is analyzed allegorically by Geoffrey Sirc in this book-length homage to Charles Deemer's 1967 article..."

I don't get all that many strokes in my old age, so forgive me for harping on this. But the more I think about it, the more incredible it is: a paper I write for a grad seminar in 1966, which at the prof's urging gets published in 1967, becomes immediately controversial, then forgotten until "rediscovered" in 2002 in a book length "homage" to the piece and expansion of its ideas, and in 2010 is studied in a grad seminar on Writing Studies, 44 years after it was written, also for a writing studies seminar -- I mean, if this isn't a cool thing to happen to a writer, I don't know what is. The work remains alive! Yes, indeedy, I'll take it.

Sirc on Deemer ("Deemer gave up and went off to write plays." Love it!)