RE: Lingua Franca Bites the Dust?

["Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>]

This is awful.  Two of my favorite articles ever published -- Alan Sokal's
hoax revelation and an expose of Edwin Mellen Press -- came from Lingua
Franca.  I can't imagine what publication will fill this now-empty niche.

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Rick Anderson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu]On Behalf Of Ann Okerson
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:56 PM
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> Subject: Lingua Franca Bites the Dust?
>
> Sorry, folks, this has nothing to do with licensing at all, but it will be
> of interest to many who were avid readers of the academic/humanities
> magazine, Lingua Franca.  We want to pay tribute to it here and we will
> miss it a great deal.  Maybe it will rise again; meanwhile, RIP.
>
> We also wish the best of continuing futures for Mr. Kittay's excellent web
> resource, Arts & Letters Daily ; and for his superb academic publication,
> University Business.
>
> Ann Okerson