High School Reading Lists Explained
WSJ – Curse of the Greedy Copyright Holders, by Tony Woodlief (author of the memoir on fatherhood and marriage, “Somewhere More Holy”)
Further, this editor noted that one reason literary anthologies and college-course syllabi have replaced classics with less edifying sources like newspaper articles and diaries is simply that major artists in the American literary canon are too expensive to procure en masse, if not totally off limits. The estates of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway have historically restricted which stories can be used in anthologies, which means that students often have a narrow exposure to two of our country’s finest writers.
Here I thought it was a conscious decision to expose us to avant garde.
In other so-that’s-why-we-were-reading-that-author-all-the-time news, an author I read TWICE in high school was recently in the news…
Telegraph – Orange Prize won by anti-Bush writer Barbara Kingsolver
After the September 11 atrocities she enraged many Americans by saying she was reluctant to let her daughter wear the stars and stripes.
She said: “Patriotism threatens free speech with death. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Who are we calling terrorists?”
During the first Gulf War she moved to the Canary Islands, so disgusted was she by what she saw as the jingoistic mood.
And that explains that.
July 10th, 2010 at 3:46 am
Too bad, Wm Faulkners style would play perfectly now, I mean srsly, the mis-adventure of Temple Drake was made to Tweet. Hummm…. Hummm LOL, jajaja, hummmm, which makes me think of a look homeward angle. I mean, what if Thomas Wolfe had a sekret blog? And he forgot to backup? And the obvious happened?
O’Lost! The labor of a thousand nights gone in a flash. The hell demons taking their due, the meat gnawing monkeys will be sated. Damn them and their mountain spawn.
Lol
July 10th, 2010 at 4:20 am
But Half, did Faulkner ever pen even a single sentence with only 140 characters?
July 10th, 2010 at 6:46 am
Dat’s the part that has me puzzilfied. I’m working on it. Prime numbers may come into play.
July 10th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Rc2, my main man Ratcliff allows has that there are tweets inside tweets. Perhaps he is right, I make it a point to never contradict. A man with sewing skills.
July 10th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Aldo, because Ima too damn cool for school, you might maker note of of my iPad goodness and be stunned by my obvious, gorges.
Tl;dr Tired of waiting for ninme to maker a review.
Buy 2, so if you have a accident one mite live.
July 10th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Man, I do still need to review the damned lovely thing.
But you make a good point: Buy two, so one might live. Perhaps a 3G one might be your backup? That way, road trips! And if it’s the one that’s sacrificed, then it’s a sign that it’s an extravagance too far………
We read ONE Faulkner in my senior year AP English class, Light in August. Which is funny because I realize now that I know precisely NOTHING about him. We never did anything about the author, just dove into this weird southernish book about a barn fire (honestly I don’t remember anything else about it). And now of course we know why. And of course that I went to high school before the (blissful) days of Wikipedia…
July 11th, 2010 at 1:12 am
I!m using a 64 gig 3G as I type from St. George Island at 5 am, sitting on an enormous, ugly yet outrageously comfortable lounge chair. I fear the keyboard is killing my once awesome touch-typing skills, it’s a sacrifice I willingly make. Using a mouse hurts my hand now, my job tomorrow will require it, the same job will also require shoes, which I’ve already grown to loathe.