February 2012
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January 2012
9 posts
LUXURY SLAVE QUARTERS APARTMENTS FOR LEASE →
Nothing says “luxury” quite like “slave quarters.”
“The finer works of art are miracles in the sense that they are so unlikely to...”
– William Gass
I started a tumblr called Actual Books. →
Because as a white guy in my mid-20s who works in a book store, I am obligated to create a somewhat clever blog out of the dregs of my day job.
December 2011
4 posts
November 2011
5 posts
“Worse, the reading we were doing in school was almost always reading done...”
– The Believer - The Sentence Is a Lonely Place
“It has been a fascinating phenomenon in the discussion around publishing how...”
– Boston Review — Richard Nash and Matt Runkle: Revaluing the Book
Nation's Students To Give American Education... →
October 2011
12 posts
WatchROBIN BACIOR | Ohio (by Earth vs Space) Co-directed by my amazing friend Alex Fischer!
“But you have more time to think, and you have time to think about your life. And...”
– Why critics of MFA programs have it wrong - Fiction - Salon.com
“Talking about the album now is like doing the dishes. The meal has already been...”
– Tom Waits in the NY Times on promoting his new album Bad As Me (via nprmusic)
WatchMore things like this, please.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m Sorry I Bit You... →
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The Big Class Newsletter →
September 2011
18 posts
WatchOnly one in five households have school-aged kids. Something tells me the other four are on tumblr. Let’s get excited about schools again.
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Big Class on Kickstarter! →
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Donate and pass it on!
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“The only time I actually work with words is when I’m writing a song. ...”
– Van Morrison, as quoted in the predictably brilliant Greil Marcus treatise When That Rough God Goes Riding.
Of course Jeff Mangum unearths obscure musical... →
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“It is a singular work of biographical art that makes most studies of, as...”
– Greil Marcus cuts through and sees deep, always. His prose makes me weak in the knees, even in an innocuous book review.
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“The reception of aesthetic power enables us to learn how to talk to ourselves...”
– Harold Bloom on The Western Canon.
“The realization we came to is that it isn’t our schools that are failing: it is...”
– Just ordered this book.
“It’s like being a reader or writer in any other place except that here life...”
– W. Kenneth Holditch on being a writer in New Orleans.
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August 2011
6 posts
Woody Guthrie Elementary School Curriculum →
I’m in favor of a Woody Guthrie-based curriculum. Last year, my 1st-graders did a compare and contrast of Woody Guthrie and Sharon Jones’s versions of “This Land is Your Land.” It’s one of my all-time top 5 favorite lessons.