I’ve seen The Godfather, Part II more times than I could say, but there are still some questions I’ve never been able to figure out. I made this list of questions back in the summer of 2010, when the Godfather movies were running on a loop on Bravo. (I posted it on my Myspace page!) Now […]
I asked this simple question, “What is your favorite poem?” to some of my favorite people on Twitter. You can read their answers here. I decided to use the power of Twitter to ask some of my favorite Twitter celebrities a question they might not have been asked before: What is your favorite poem? The […]
It was two years ago tonight that I heard Noam Chomsky speak to a packed house at my alma mater, Rhodes College in Memphis. He was two hours late, and he spoke for what seemed like two more hours, but nobody left the packed auditorium until after he was done speaking. Noam Chomsky After he […]
Here’s what I read in December (Part two of two) (Numbering continues from part one.) 4. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka I realized with a start that my students were not doing enough outside reading for their world lit class, and I had a crisis about what to assign them, so I had them all read The Metamorphosis by Franz […]
Here’s What I Read in December (Part one of two) Prologue: The books I DNF’d. Before getting into the books I read this month, I have to start with the books I did not finish. First was Morrissey’s autobiography, Autobiography, which I wrote about in a previous post. But I also DNF’d Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha, […]