summer reading

[psyches_task]

i just finished reading the two-act play "the night thoreau spent in jail" by robert edwin lee and jerome lawrence. has anyone else read this?

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jaili loved it. it made me want to pull out those transcendentalists again. how do we let ourselves forget such poignant dogmas

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[viruswshoes]

Hrm. Sounds interesting. Will have to hunt it down.

Just finished a ridiculously annoying (but nonetheless useful for research purposes) book, edited by Charlie Daniels, called Growing Up Country - What Makes Country Life Country. I cannot even begin to tell you how thankful I am that it was a fast read.

Next I'm on to the following:
The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy: Bill Hayes
Genius - A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds: Harold Bloom
The Treasury of Negro Spirituals: H.A. Chambers (ed.)
Griffin & Sabine - An Extraordinary Correspondence: Nick Bantock

Also, keeping my fingers crossed that I get a copy of Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America again from the Library.

Looking for summer reading recommendations? I can make a few, if'n you're interested. :)

[psyches_task]

i will always take reading recommendations (be it summer or not), unfortunately, i have six books i am required to read for summer reading/testing purposes. sigh. well, at least one of them was the topic of this post, so that's five to go!

[viruswshoes]

What are the other 5 titles you're required to read?

[psyches_task]

City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende and Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths by Bernard Evslin (for the incoming freshmen)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (for the incoming sophomores)
and for a upcoming junior student i am tutoring this summer: "Fall of the House of Usher" and Other Poe Tales and the Thoreau one I mentioned above...

i've read the Bradbury book before, but the rest are new for me.

[radioactiveart]

I read that years ago. Liked it a lot, I recall.

I just finished Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's book on the history of the NYC slam scene and loved it. Nothing else on the table right now -- manuscript in progress so that takes precedence.

[psyches_task]

you reminded me. i have been offered the opportunity to start a poetry club at the high school i'll be teaching at next year, and i need to pool my resources (you'd be a fantastic one, if you're interested) to help me put together some kind of curriculum for the history of slam, predecessors, etc.

what's your manuscript in process?