Top Ten Nonfiction Books That Will Change Your Life

These ten books, I can say with confidence, have changed my life in some way, and they will probably change your life too. Or, maybe not, because I’m me and you aren’t. But I’m fairly certain that these books will make you think about nonfiction, or English boarding schools, or minimum wage jobs, or Teddy… More Top Ten Nonfiction Books That Will Change Your Life

*—Top 10 Romantic Movie Lines for an Awful Poem—*

Each verse gets worse– a last-ditch effort to disseminate some quality teen angst before Valentine’s Month is over:   I want you to draw me like one of your French girls But I am nobody’s little weasel. They say bread is life. And I bake bread,                                                                             bread,                                                                                                          bread. And I sweat and shovel… More *—Top 10 Romantic Movie Lines for an Awful Poem—*

Ten Fantastic Examples of Queer Person-of-Color Literature

In my experience as a student of the public school system, English literature departments seldom offer texts in the curriculum that deviate from a white, middle-to-upper class, Eurocentric (and very often male) voice. Students like me are taught authors like Shakespeare and Dickens, Steinbeck and Fitzgerald and Faulkner. The poets we learn about are poets… More Ten Fantastic Examples of Queer Person-of-Color Literature