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Nonfiction students! We’ll be reading DFW this semester! | David Foster Wallace on Writing, Death, and Redemption | Brain Pickings brainpickings.org/2013/09/12/dav…

How American colonialism put Puerto Rico in crisis | motherjones.com/politics/2019/…

Michel Foucault and fake news. What would he think? Was he responsible? Should we care? More here at Open Culture. openculture.com/2019/09/what-w…

"She is often ambivalent, but never neutral in the self-protective modern manner. She is a poet of split feelings." @DwightGarner on the essays of Rachel Cusk. nyti.ms/34CBnQx

Genre divisions can be such a drag. electricliterature.com/12-books-that-…

An appropriate gathering of opinions on creativity and other things for our #nonfiction class on 8.29!

Maria Popova on the seven things . . . must-watch for my students in #nonfiction. We need to learn to read all over again with fresh eyes, and I think these seven things will help us do that . . . youtube.com/watch?v=PyOxrL…

Nietzsche died yesterday, August 25, on 1900. He talked about what it meant to be a "free spirit." You might want to have a look at what a free spirit thinks it means to have a free spirit.

Greenland is home to an indigenous population. The idea you can just buy a territory of another sovereign country in the post-colonial era, or make colonial jokes about that imperialistic proposition, with little or no consideration for the human population, is deeply offensive.

Your own guide for identifying youth "subcultures," East-German style, 1985.

Mathematician Katherine Johnson, who calculated Apollo 11’s launch windows, turns 101 today — a hero in incalculable ways brainpickings.org/2016/09/19/hid…

8 lessons for today’s youth-led movements from a decade of youth climate organizing wagingnonviolence.org/feature/lesson…

“A pineapple of the finest flavour” was a phrase used for anything that was the best of the best. @parisreview longreads.com/2018/04/30/thi…

Maybe it's time we reimagined what social networks should look like: buff.ly/2FxKO5W

April showers bring... a TON of new books to read in May! themillions.com/2018/05/may-pr…

Sick of the internet shouting factory? Looking for a more civil place to discuss the big issues? After five years of development, we welcome you to Kialo, a system designed for thoughtful debate. kialo.com/tour/?utm_camp…

Meet “Reclaim Idaho,” the group that’s trying to do what elected officials won’t and put Medicaid expansion up for a vote in November. buzzfeed.com/annehelenpeter…

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduces resolution to Senate proclaiming March 10 as Tibetan Rights Day. It is good to see that some of our legislators still have a human pulse and care about human rights. A remarkable read. buff.ly/2JquC95 | #FreeTibet #HHDL