The girl as Gimli, Legolas, Aragorn and Thorin. #proudofthegirl #notentirelysurewhy #stillproud

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If not enough people are stopping by your table to hear your presentation, you take your presentation to the people.

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Students present their research for the Celebration of Writing @setonhilluniversity

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Reader, I ushered him. @pictclassictheatre

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The crisis in local journalism has become a crisis of democracy

The paucity of reporters has triggered an invisible power shift toward elected officials. A Pew Research Center study of Baltimore showed an increase in local stories based on press releases from elected officials. The trends in journalism exacerbate the divide between the coasts and the rest of the country. In 2014, almost 1 out of 5 U.S. reporters…

Cheerful scene from @pictclassictheatre Jane Eyre (getting great reviews; 11 more performances)

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The boy is visiting the Prohibition exhibit @HistoryCenter while I continue at NeMLA.

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After my conference talk, a post-audition, pre-Jane-Eyre-performance dinner with the girl.

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Presenting at #NEMLA session 8.1 Friday. “Hacking English: Examining a multimedia sandbox ‘creative critical project’ as an approach to literature.”

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Superman Comic about Sympathy and Hope

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Chapbooks — the latest assignment in my “History and Future of the Book” class.

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Amazing birthday cake, created by Jane Eyre herself, Karen Baum. (Thank you @kaboom1250!)

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What About “The Breakfast Club”?

I made three movies with John Hughes; when they were released, they made enough of a cultural impact to land me on the cover of Time magazine and to get Hughes hailed as a genius. His critical reputation has only grown since he died, in 2009, at the age of fifty-nine. Hughes’s films play constantly on television and are even taught in schools. There is still so much that I love in them, but lately I have felt the need to examine the role that these movies have played in our cultural life: where they came from, and what they might mean now. When my daughter proposed watching “The Breakfast Club” together, I had hesitated, not knowing how she would react: if she would understand the film or if she would even like it. I worried that she would find aspects of it troubling, but I hadn’t anticipated that it would ultimately be most troubling to me. -Molly Ringwald, New Yorker

Happy Sweet Sixteen, Carolyn!

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Pictures from opening night of @pictclassictheatre Jane Eyre. (Show runs through the rest of the month.)

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