The highlight of early 2010, namely the class I taught at Marymount Manhattan College, came to an end Thursday night. Called “Writing in a New environment,” we explored blogging, tweeting,
and the many changes digital technology has foisted on the word industry. I was joined by a group of students that was small but curious and insightful, and I hope to see them again: from left: Amy Shigo, David Linton, Pamela Pearce and Patrick McCarthy (where did Karen Arfi go when the camera came out?) On Thursday we were joined by 
Tim O’Connell (left), who is an editor at Vintage and Anchor Books in the Knopf/Doubleday Publishing Group of Random House, thanks be to God (whew!), but who was recommended to me by Gerry Howard, which is all you really need to know. Tim told us all about how publishing is changing in this age of Kindle and the iPad, and I’m happy to say that he was generally full of optimism. He did a great job. Thanks, Tim, and thanks, class, for a great time.
