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There are Perks to Being a Wallflower?
THE TRUTH IS, I SHOULD HAVE READ THE BOOK YEARS AGO. Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower has been a critical (and criticized) favorite for over a decade. I’d seen it and heard of it for most of … Continue reading
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Trailing the Life of Pi
YEARS AGO I READ AN ARTICLE about movies that hate their audiences. It was around the year 2000, and there had been a string of quality, thoughtful movies: The Matrix, Fight Club, Memento, and especially The Six Sense. All of … Continue reading
Writing Advice from A Pro
SUMMER BREAK FINALLY STARTS FOR ME once the final bell rings today. Sure, I’ve got some tests to grade and some report cards to complete, but most of the work will be done. Which leaves me two weeks to vacate. … Continue reading
Remembering Ray Bradbury (and reading him, too)
I CAME LATE TO THE RAY BRADBURY PARTY. It was a couple of years ago. Donald Miller had spoken highly of Bradbury’s collection of essays on writing: Zen and the Art of Writing. Somewhere around there I found my way … Continue reading
Summer Reading Surprise
A STACK OF BOOKS, both print and digital, has been piling up on my “summer reading” checklist. A lot of the more immediate stuff is non-fiction: essays by Lethem and Franzen, Bissell and Robinson. I’ve got one collection of short … Continue reading
Easter Quotations
IN A FEW HOURS, morning will break and Christians around the world will greet each other with “He is risen; He is risen indeed.” I’ve been mindful of the time almost all week, attending a short church service for many … Continue reading
You Might Want to Read This
BOOKS are always a topic of conversation for me: I spent part of the afternoon catching up with graduates who love to read and one who has written a novel of his own. I didn’t like them much as a … Continue reading
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A Less Immediate Life
LATELY I’VE BEEN READING the latest book by Anne Lamott. Her most recent memoir, titled Some Assembly Required, is a journal of the first year of her grandson’s life. Throughout the journal she takes time to interview her son, Sam, … Continue reading
Learning and Lent
HOPEFULNESS seems like a strange way to start the season of Lent, I suppose. With a closer look, though, I think we’d find every religious impulse, every act of faith, so somehow rooted in hope. Even discipline. Perhaps with discipline … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 