“Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.” ― Milan Kundera
Tony Pennino
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Associate Professor of Literature at Stevens Institute of Technology, which means I’ve taught everything from Spaceships to Shakespeare. I wrote a book on 1980s British subversive theatre. Am writing one on James Baldwin. Fulbright Scholar. Playwright.
Glen Hansard, the Irish singer who won an Oscar for the musical movie Once and the led the bands The Frames and The Swell Season, died on Wednesday. He died following a motorcycle crash in Dublin. n.pr/44R2Yhg
Glen Hansard, Irish songwriter and 'Once' star, dies at 56
Glen Hansard, the Irish singer who won an Oscar for the musical movie Once and the led the bands The Frames and The Swell Season, died on Wednesday. He died following a motorcycle crash in Dublin.
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“There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.” ― James Salter
Do yourself a favor and listen to Glen Hansard’s cover of Drive All Night. Rest in Peace.
Candle Flame for Remembrance and Condolences
Alt: Candle Flame for Remembrance and Condolences
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“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” ― Mary Oliver
“Still, a great deal of light falls on everything.” Vincent Van Gogh.
I received a tenure request in my junk mail. Check your junk mail folders!
If they ever went through a writer’s search history…. My latest: what’s the best leaf to clean yourself after pooping. 🤦♂️ #WriterSky
I finished the requested edits on my manuscript. Don’t know what to do with myself now. #AcademicSky
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.” ― Hannah Arendt
Explosive diarrhea is actually the perfect metaphor for America in 2026.
I’m never going to get my Henry V World Cup, am I?
Kenneth Branagh: Henry V on the Throne
Alt: Kenneth Branagh: Henry V on the Throne
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“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.” ― Ocean Vuong
“Are you a communist?" "No I am an anti-fascist" "For a long time?" "Since I have understood fascism.” ― Ernest Hemingway
“I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us.” Frederick Douglass
Damn, that goo in The Reflecting Pool ain’t messing around.
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
I just want to put this out there. I would make a smashing Prime Minister of Great Britain. 🇬🇧
“Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation." - Coretta Scott King #Juneteenth
“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.” ― John Steinbeck
“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.” ― Harper Lee
Manuscript update: finished the last chapter (only the conclusion to go). I need to have a minimum of 90k words. Currently at 89.4k. #AcademicSky