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First Wednesday Words of the year, because bronchitis (or something) has thrown me for a loop. Whatever it is, it's lingering, which has made anything beyond essential "must-do" tasks trifficult to complete. Case-in-point: I have lost all motivation for exercise, so in an effort to stay moving when all I want to do is hibernate, I set myself the task of listening to the entire back-catalog of Switched On Pop . I've listened to a few episodes here and there -- mainly the ones

I've been a bit quiet lately, mainly because my writing has, unusually, taken me elsewhere. A few weeks ago now, I received an email out of the blue from an editor at Public Humanities . He was inviting me to write an article on Taylor Swift's new album, The Life of a Showgirl . The editor -- who is a professor at Harvard -- pitched the piece as part of an "Of The Moment" roundtable, a space that " offers articles that are short, peer-reviewed, open access, and written for a