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This is just such a sad and terrible thing to be happening.

I remember reading Maus one semester in my senior years at high school for English. I never actually managed to finish the book, but I do remember that what I did read was absolutely beautifully written and told such an important story.

To think that it has now been added to a list of banned books when we live in a time when we need to learn as much from the mistakes of the past as possible is horrifying.

Tonight I gave Art Spiegelman the National Book Awards Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. And we're both being banned. Some of you may think this is a good thing because you don't like my books or you don't care for Maus. But I guarantee that there are books you love on the banned lists too. That's why libraries and librarians fight for their rights to have all the books on the shelves and for your rights to read them. And it's why I support them.

I know I don’t usually reblog things but also this is so fucking cursed I think it belongs here

the tell tale heart and its exactly the same but it’s the old man’s massive ass cheeks clapping as he walks that drive the narrator to kill him

British Manne: From the nascent thoughts of my earliest infancy, I have found the existance of women farcical and the scent of them intolerable. 

Junior year English professor with two grandkids, three nose rings, and a ziggy stardust tat on her right buttcheek (ask me after class, honey) : Oh! Oh! A romantíc novelle if ever there was. The great-est love balláde of the West.

Wherefore means WHY, not WHERE! Stop MISUSING IT when you REFERENCE SHAKESPEARE.

Name something super minor that just really makes you mad?

“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”

— Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

Slow sunny afternoons were created for drinking matcha bubble tea and reading english literature in the park