For many years, I taught Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death in my AP Language classes. In this book, written in 1985, Postman argues that we are living in the Age of Show Business; that the advent and pervasive nature of television has significantly changed and shaped the way people think and operate in their everyday …
{Photo from my yoga teacher graduation ceremony in 2010} I love to write, and I enjoy social media, and it’s never been easier to publish your work for an audience. Of course, it’s probably also never been more difficult to retain a committed readership. Precisely because it’s so easy to post a blog or share …
It’s time for your monthly book update, just in time for the holiday season when (I hope) you may have a bit of extra time to read some of these works along with me. I just finished… Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff, while I was in Prague. I was slow to warm to this …
