Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
This book was mentioned and a short excerpt was read from it; it was written after some students wrote a survey about being a writer, and the excerpt is about the author's experience with her first-grade textbook.
Please describe how you became a writer. Possibly I began writing as a refuge from our insulting first grade textbook. Come Jane come. Look Dick look. Were there ever duller people in the world?
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This book was mentioned and a short excerpt was read from it; it was written after some students wrote a survey about being a writer, and the excerpt is about the author's experience with her first-grade textbook.
Please describe how you became a writer. Possibly I began writing as a refuge from our insulting first grade textbook. Come Jane come. Look Dick look. Were there ever duller people in the world?