“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do–and they don’t.

This is important:

If you want to know something worthwhile about how to become more proficient in the profession of teaching, check out what D. G. Myers has to say in “Trade secrets of a pedagogue” at A Commonplace Blog.

Enjoy a snippet of old film footage in which little Mary Flannery O’Connor from Savannah, Georgia, the girl who would become one of America’s most important authors. You will see Ms. O’Connor and her backward-walking chicken, both of which are featured in a 1932 Pathe News release.

Here is something very much worth noting at Jewish Ideas Daily; D. G. Myers offers readers an important reconsideration of Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers.