Favorite Tweets:

Favorite Search Terms:

• Raven bread: This is either a town in a book about witches, or some sort of delicious chocolate-striped dessert loaf. 
• “brylie” “sarah drummond:” So someone decided to google two of my closest friends on the planet.  Weird….
• I love reading books because: FINISH THE SENTENCE GOOGLE

Book News:

• Haunted Realism @ The New Yorker
• Author Picks Book Subject Out of a Hat @ Media Bistro
• Free Samples of Best Horror Books of the Year @ Media Bistro
• On the In Between @ Dani Shapiro
• Stephanie Meyer says ‘The Host’ is her Favorite Novel @ Huff Post
• Best Science Books 2012 @ Brain Pickings
• ‘To This Day’ Anti-Bullying Poem Goes Viral @ Huff Post

I feel like I could post this video alone on the blog and let it speak the volumes I try to speak to my high school students everyday.  Today, instead of fighting another kid, a student asked me to pick him up from the cafeteria when the bell rang.  Instead of sticking his fists where the words hurt, he used his words to be a bigger person.  I told him, we’re dominant on the animal food chain because we have the ability to reason.  I told him not to give someone else control of himself because that’s what fighting is.  I told him not to listen to his friends who won’t have a fighting blemish on their record just from cheering him on.  We have the ability to say, no, I will not be that guy, that girl, that person, that nobody, that somebody, THAT.  I will walk into that cafeteria everyday if I have to, through the hoards of students, to remind just one of my students that they’re important, they’re beautiful, they’re worth it.  Tell someone you love them today, tell them they fill a space inside you that rings when they speak.

•  Adaptation @ The New Yorker
• Drag Queen, Disinvited to Read Dr. Seuss Books to Children @ Huff Post
• 

  Professor Richard A. Macksey’s personal library

  The Thirty Best Places to Be if You Love Books @ Buzz Feed

• The Joy of Books @ The Paris Review
• Why We Read More @ Scholastic Book Clubs
• A Personal History of Sarajevo @ The Guardian
• Kipling Poems Discovered @ The Guardian
• Six Great Latin-American Artists Speak in New E-book Series @ Los Angeles Times
• How to Save a Public Library @ NPR
• David Foster Wallace Syllabus @ Open Culture
• Bring Back the Illustrated Book @ The New Yorker
• Cloud Atlas Author Translates Autistic Teenager’s Memoir @ The Guardian
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  Women Reading @ Carrie Schneider

  Reading Women @ Carrie Schneider

• Books-a-Million on Duck Dynasty @ Publisher’s Weekly
• The Weight of Books @ LA Times
• The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time @ The Guardian
• Guardian Books Poetry Podcast @ The Guardian
• Wolverine, Hercules Share Kiss in Alternate Universe @ Huff Post
• Tournament of Books: Round House by Louise Erdrich @ Book Riot
• The Ultimate Comedy Library @ Split Sider
• Shelley’s Most Scandalous Poem @ The Telegraph
• Poem Portraits @ Huff Post
• Short Story Award Draws Up Starry Shortlist @ The Guardian
• Grammarians in Hoodies @ Education Next
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  Twitter Short

  Kelly Writers House Podcast @ Itunes

• Grant Snider’s Posters For Book Lovers @ Huff Post
• Page-Turner @ MSN
• Sylvia Plath Reads a Birthday Present 1962 @ Brain Pickings
• Terry Tempest Williams Describes Mystery of Late Mother’s Journals @ Huff Post
• Modern Journal Offers Poetry Scholarship @ Poetry Foundation
• How to Deal with Crushing Feedback on Creative Work @ 99u
• Celebrate David Foster Wallace’s Birthday @ Media Bistro
• Playboy Discussion @ NYPL
• Dree Hemingway Would Rather Read Fitzgerald @ NY Mag
• Yoga Pants Nation @ Good Men Project
• Proust Playing Air Guitar….On  A Tennis Racket @ The Atlantic
• German Children’s Author Dies Age 89 @ Huff Post
• When Characters Attack @ Ploughshares