US Fulbright scholar—Distinguished Teaching Research Program. H.S. English Teacher & Chair. Collector of Rare Books. Views are mine.
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Jun 14
In Louisiana, this is how you can tell if a gator is in that water
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yes, perfect! or, as we say in this household, purr-fect!
Jun 13
I had to think for a minute to remember that your description of Christopher Meloni in Oz is just right.
I always thought he would have been perfect as Stanley Kowalski in A Street Car Named Desire because he was everything you named AND had a magnetic energy pull.
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Jun 13
Sade will always be the whole vibe. Your Love Is King is probably one of my favorites. Lyrics like a Shakespeare love sonnet. Simple resonant, effortless.
youtu.be/1yfuCpcX7EU?si=E7rh…
Jun 12
Few entertainers have the privilege of going by one name: Cher. Prince. Beyoncé. And then there’s Sade.
Born Helena Folsade Adu, Sade spent her early years in Nigeria before moving to England with her mother at age four. Her nickname, which eventually became her stage name, originated in Nigeria as a shortened version of her middle name.
ALT Sade in a mockup up cover for Ebony Magazine.
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Jun 13
Public library cards should be folded into drivers licenses or state IDs for adults.
Chicago just made the move of allowing students to use their school ID as a replacement for public library issued cards. Smart move!
blockclubchicago.org/2026/04…
Jun 12
How many people actually have library cards as adults?
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Jun 13
Another example how a seemingly small move can be big and powerful.
I love this!
Jun 12
I think about this every day. In the Netherlands, if a person dies alone, without any family or friends as mourners, a poet will be sent to write a poem and read it at the burial service. It's called the Lonely Funeral Project, and it's just humans being good humans.
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Jun 13
Just started watching this wildly entertaining @netflix show "The Boroughs." Alfred Molina, Alfre Woodard, Geena Davis.
This show just screams @StephenKing is behind it "low key" (as the kids say)???
Brilliant show so far...some are calling it a grown up Stranger Things.
Jun 12
The Boroughs top 10 showing on Netflix
Mystery Sci-Fi Drama Thriller
Description
The Boroughs follows a group of unlikely residents in a quiet retirement
community who suddenly find themselves facing strange and
unexplainable events. As mysterious forces begin to threaten their
peaceful lives, they must work together to uncover secrets hidden
within their town before everything spirals out of control.
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Jun 13
I should also say this show is not hard sci-fi or hard horror. More than anything it is FUN to watch!
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Jun 12
A Memory and a Defense of Reading Pictures While Reading the Text of a Book open.substack.com/pub/shakes… #books #rarebooks #collecting #libraries #reading #LEC #limitededitionsclub
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May 21
Just added a section to my rare book collection website that is just for "new book collectors." Towles' collection is goals for all of us, but you have to start somewhere. #rarebooks #bookcollecting #books #libraries. shakespearesbrain.com
Amor Towles Shares Insights on His Own Rare Book Collection nytimes.com/2026/05/12/books… via @NYTimes
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May 20
Finally completed my rare books collecting informatioal website made just for me in mind. Ha. shakespearesbrain.com
Every so often you start something that no one ever asked you to start and you finish something no one ever told you to finish. I recommend this! #books
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Drew Snow retweeted
"pretentious" is the word the unambitious wield at the ambitious.
May 17
They’re calling Ulysses and Beloved overrated and pretentious…. God send the rapture
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Drew Snow retweeted
Apr 27
Albert Lutuli – known by his Zulu name as Mvumbi – was Africa's first Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Despite government surveillance, imprisonment and abuse, Lutuli led the South African Black population in a non-violent campaign against apartheid: bit.ly/2AQTXtA
ALT Albert Lutuli
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Drew Snow retweeted
For the first time, a series of Toni Morrison's Princeton lectures has been compiled into a book. Now, readers can engage with Morrison, not only through the lens of her fiction or essays, but through her role as a teacher. bit.ly/4bXSZeh
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Mar 19
Lord Dudley was always up to something. Queen Elizabeth's bad boy.
My 1706 1st edition title page of the Secret Memoirs of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester reads like a tabloid cover. It is actively trying to sell you on Dudley as a total villain before the book even starts!
9 Mar 1578: d. Lady Margaret Douglas Countess of Lennox #otd after having become violently ill after supper with Robert Dudley Earl of #Leicester. She was grand-daughter of Henry VII and aunt to Mary Queen of #Scots, great-aunt to James VI & I
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Mar 17
The Audubons clearly had a fondness for wild turkeys: Maria Audubon’s (John James Audubon's granddaughter) bookplate, pasted in my copy of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, features one proudly.
Benjamin Franklin—pro-turkey and anti-eagle snobbery—would have approved.
Astoria the Wild Turkey strolls The Battery on a rainy Monday evening. 🦃 🧡
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Drew Snow retweeted
absolutely deserved Oscar for remarkable Michael B. Jordan. twice as deserving as other Oscar winners--literally.
Mar 16
Michael B Jordan walked into an In-N-Out Burger after winning his Oscar last night.
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Drew Snow retweeted
what is most astonishing is that Emily Bronte was a first-time novelist & "Wuthering Heights" was written when she was in her late 20's; she died tragically young, just 30, when the novel was published to mixed reviews. (given the genteel tenor of the time, it is a wonder that so fierce & intransigent a novel was even published under the androgynous name Ellis Bell.) Mary Shelley was just 20 or so when "Frankenstein" was published--primarily because publishers assumed that Percy Shelley was the real author.
Re-read it recently and def feels like Brontë did something incredibly original in going past the "gothic romance" traditional ending and showing both the consequences for the next generation as well as that generation eventually beginning to liberate itself from trauma.
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I was once honored to attend a reading by Ms. Toni Morrison. It was apparent then that she had a grand sense of humor. Ms. @JoyceCarolOates has confirmed this in tweets. Now we have this book!
Found this photo of Morrison with her cat. Attempt at humor is mine!
Namwali Serpell (@namwalien) on Toni Morrison’s sense of humor go.nybooks.com/3MeldY3
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