Whence Come “The Leftovers”?: Speculative Fiction and the Human Condition
Nora Durst finds herself at the intersection of something routinely normal for middle-class Americans living in the comfort of suburbia and distinctly otherworldly at the same time in Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers, his 2011 novel venturing into speculative/ dystopian fiction.* Visiting the mall with her sister during the Christmas season, Nora confronts the sudden disappearance of her entire family
6-24-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University)
Will Free-Pass Mainstream Media Clean Up Their Chetty Mess? | the becoming radical: Will Free-Pass Mainstream Media Clean Up Their Chetty Mess?The New York Times couldn’t hold back: Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain. And for two years now, the so-called Chetty study that claims teacher quality directly causes higher lifetime earnings for their students has been re-released by Chetty an