Drew Snow

US Fulbright scholar—Distinguished Teaching Research Program. H.S. English Teacher & Chair. Collector of Rare Books. Views are mine.

[Drew Snow @Shakesbrain]

The way these British students are describing American food from the South is sending me. The whitish gravy caught me off guard, I must say.

[bluemontauk @bluemontauk]

British kids taste Southern food for the first time. 🔥Biscuits and gravy, fried chicken, and sweet tea. They will be begging their parents to move to the U.S. 🤣😂🤣

[Drew Snow @Shakesbrain]

@JoyceCarolOates New student orientation, homecoming must be the equivalent of black Friday for these university bookstores.

High schools like mine have college decision day for all the seniors who have selected a college. College merch is everywhere for that entire week.

[Drew Snow @Shakesbrain]

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. https://t.co/w5mNS028DA

[LiteraryVienna @LiteraryVienna]

Amor Towles Shares Insights on His Own Rare Book Collection https://t.co/UvF2qJQkWv via @NYTimes

[Drew Snow @Shakesbrain]

Finally completed my rare books collecting informatioal website made just for me in mind. Ha. https://t.co/w5mNS028DA
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

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

"pretentious" is the word the unambitious wield at the ambitious.

[Drew Snow @Shakesbrain]

@JoyceCarolOates Definitely a scam. I always block any text message telling me I owe money, especially if it is from an alleged municipal entity. They know my mailing address.

[Drew Snow @Shakesbrain]

@namwalien @hermannkarlovic That makes sense. I also agree with your point about Sula. It is a good introduction to Morrison, especially at the high school level. I try to tell those being introduced to Morrison to not begin with Beloved. The Bluest Eye is another good intro to her art.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

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: https://t.co/Pxk7vPBxeP

[Drew Snow @Shakesbrain]

@namwalien @hermannkarlovic I understand the point, but it really does depend on the class. Sula and Beloved are taught in my department to seniors in AP Lit. These books also appear quite often as suggested titles for the exam itself. My students are always eager to work through her inverted moral knots.

[Drew Snow @Shakesbrain]

@Eric_Erins It can be 95 degrees outside with a beaming sun, but my building's deck will always have a cool breeze with a temperature of about 15 degrees cooler. Nothing better than living by the lake in Edgewater.

[Smithsonian Magazine @SmithsonianMag]

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. https://t.co/cC0eBWLuhK

[Drew Snow @Shakesbrain]

@JoyceCarolOates Agreed! Reading "James" while listening to Dominic Hoffman’s Audiobook narration is a revelation—it’s the August Wilson/Eugene O’Neill effect—the voice is the story. Everett’s mastery of language is stunning; he avoids the easily digestible in favor of something far more complex.

[Drew Snow @Shakesbrain]

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!

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

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

[Drew Snow @Shakesbrain]

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.

[Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark]

Astoria the Wild Turkey strolls The Battery on a rainy Monday evening. 🦃 🧡

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

absolutely deserved Oscar for remarkable Michael B. Jordan. twice as deserving as other Oscar winners--literally.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

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.

[Drew Snow @Shakesbrain]

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!

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

Namwali Serpell (@namwalien) on Toni Morrison’s sense of humor https://t.co/0lwVwFhGKG

[Vintage Books @IReadVintage]

A collection of lectures from Toni Morrison's tenure as a professor at Princeton, investigating Black imagery in the American literary canon.
Language as Liberation is available now wherever books are sold.
#readmoremorrison

[Drew Snow @Shakesbrain]

I love that your review and the play center Jocasta (Lesley Manville).

I've taught Oedipus to grade 9 students (I know, I know) for years. The play presents a bind she cannot escape, leading my students to question her as a mother.

Intriguing new backstory!

[Ben Brantley @BenjBrantley]

A quiet that roars: Lesley Manville and Robert Icke took me through the creation of a monologue in Icke's "Oedipus" that elicits the most thrilling sound to be heard in a theater: the sound of unconditional silence.
https://t.co/heSTfthW2G