Students are talking about Buffalo. Word is they buffalo Buffalo buffalo, which is weird for Buffalo buffalo to do, when you consider that Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Many of my students went to see Deadpool, so I thought it would be a good idea to talk about a heavily R-rated movie for the benefit of my teenage students.
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African American woman, and in the poem "On Being Brought from African to America" she engages in a quiet, cultural rebellion with the use of a single comma.
I was defeated by a book. It happens sometimes that you find a book that just doesn't speak to you, just like there are movies and songs that just don't click. Try as I might, I couldn't get into The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. I tried - probably harder than I should have.
I have been reading Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchmen, and am troubled that I might appreciate this novel more than Mockingbird (despite the earlier book being better).