This week’s What’s Alan Watching? newsletter coming up just as soon as I save the universe with a spoon…
Wednesday night’s premiere of The Bear Season Three was the TV event of the week, the month, and arguably of the year so far — the return of a universally acclaimed, adored series that swept the most recent Emmys, and will likely do so again at the next ceremony in a few months. Read More...
In her super useful but also a little bit wackadoo book, How to Get Your Child to Love Reading (which I reviewed in issue No. 21), Esmé Raji Codell writes this about building community around the power of literacy and what a gift this service is to children:
“If children’s literature is the potato, the thing that nourishes, then we are the plowshares that ready the land for planting.”
I love this image — being a plowshare readying the reading land for my children. Read More...
So, this will be fun, I think. Partly because Dostoevsky has always been hard for me to teach. Somehow, his stories, which are so wonderful and strange, always slightly elude my analytical method. Which is a good thing since, every time I make a run at one of his stories, it teaches me something about my analytical method.
As usual, I’ll post in a pdf below and turn the Comments off so we can have some quiet reading time, before opening up our discussion next Sunday. Read More...
