There are things we know and things we think we know. Here’s a tale from my first week of teaching at an Orthodox Jewish school. I am finishing up my first week of teaching class at an Orthodox Jewish high school in Memphis. When I got hired in May, I realized I had a lot […]
There is a “new” short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the August 6 issue of The New Yorker. Fitzgerald submitted this story, “Thank You for the Light” to the magazine in 1936, but it was rejected by the editors, possibly because of its controversial portrayal of the Virgin Mary. Recently, Fitzgerald’s granddaughter discovered the […]
Book cover by fourblackbirds. I read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, and I loved it. Reading Jane Austen, like dancing in public, makes me uncomfortable. I see people either dancing or reading Austen all the time, and to them, it seems natural. They clearly love what they’re doing, and many of them will […]
Here’s what I read in July. A note about the illustration: If you read my blog, you might notice that I often try to find clever or telling pictures for the current month whenever I do one of my “What I Read This Month” blogs. For the next year (one hopes), I will be using […]