Alissa Wilkinson

Once in a while the movies let you wonder!!

I always write one, to signal “where my head’s at,” but it almost never gets used

I was so pleased with myself

‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ Review: Magic, the Gathering

Inordinately proud of this headline

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/m...

I did not realize until reading this that Roberts was president of Wyoming Catholic, the college that was lightly fictionalized to become the setting for Will Arbery’s play HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING, but that makes immense sense

bad news pal

Yup apologies to certain friends but I think I was dead right

www.vox.com/culture/2018...

Oh I forgot nvm

This is one month after the Weinstein story broke by the way

ah

I have talked to two (2) people about my old review of AMERICAN DHARMA this week. I stand by it

And like, phonics are basically good. If I had kids and I was teaching them to read I’d start there, at least, without being rigid about it

Yeah that checks out. I haven’t peeked into that world in a long while for my own sanity but I am not surprised

Yes!!

Oh, it was you, @michaelschulman.bsky.social

I was talking to someone, at some point, in the last few months about the film SUBURBAN FURY, and how it never got released. I don't remember who! But! Well! It's going to be at the Alamo in lower Manhattan December 12-18, so go see it!
www.suburbanfury.com

I’m excited to introduce Artist Commons, a year-long, online development program for early- and mid-career artists. Applications open next week, and the program starts in mid-January.

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The image contains text that reads: Whole language represents a major shift in thinking about the reading process. Rather than viewing reading as "getting the words," whole language educators view reading as essentially a process of creating meanings. . . . It is a transaction, not an extraction of the meaning from the print, in the sense that the reader-created meanings are a fusion of what the reader brings and what the text offers. . . . In a transactional model, words do not have static meanings. Rather, they have meaning potentials and the capacity to communicate multiple meanings. This view of reading is nothing less than the radical literary philosophy of deconstructionism. In an article in Contemporary Authors on Jacques Derrida, the French proponent of deconstruction, we read: [D]econstructionism emphasizes the reader's role in extracting meaning from texts and the impossibility of determining absolute meaning. It is important for homeschoolers to understand this connection between whole language and deconstruction. The purpose of both is the destruction of the absolute word as represented by the word of God in Scripture. If children are taught to invent their own meanings in whatever they read, then what is to stop them from reading the Bible in their own subjective manner, inventing whatever meaning happens to please them?

This bit in particular was quite memorable to me when I was like 11

Whole-Language Boondoggle - Practical Homeschooling Magazine

I could not agree more with you but also, this totally triggered a memory of this whole debate from early 90s homeschool circles and this guy in particular, who not only managed to misread Derrida but link whole language to the destruction of, you guessed it, God
www.home-school.com/Articles/who...

Hahaha

Oh thank you!!

We will get into it a little, yes! (By that point in the semester they’ll be doing mostly their own writing, but I want to give them some stuff to chew on, so yes)

I’d love that — I have a few of the ones I wish we could visit on my list (though most are in Texas) but we are definitely thinking about bodies in spaces

(But I will put some suggested films for them to watch on there for sure)

Thank you! And I’m especially looking for readings

Gorgeous, I love this. Thank you for sharing — I’ll definitely take a look.

And outside religious traditions altogether. As you can see, we are outside the BOX on this one.

All right, chat: this is the (graduate) class I’m teaching in the spring at NYU, and my syllabus is like 85% set but I’d love to hear what you’d add if you were teaching it, especially but not only sources outside any Christian-inflected traditions.

as.nyu.edu/departments/...

It’s a lovely book — I think you might enjoy.