"That's an interesting way to solve the problem, Tony."
Miss Tobin is talking about a math problem on the blackboard, but Tony is thinking about real problems.
If his parents or his friend Joel or Joel's sixteen-year-old sister Lisa knew what Tony was thinking about a lot of the time, they'd probably freak out. About snitching on Joel, who Tony knows is a shoplifter. About watching Lisa undress each night and liking what he sees. About money and the changes money makes in people (especially his mother).
Hung up at thirteen. That's Tony Miglione--especially this morning in math class in front of Miss Tobin, for everyone to see...
Toronto. Author "Let's Talk About Love"; music critic @Slate; freelance writer/editor for hire; co-organizer, Popular Music Books series; misc, @trampolinehall.
Been mixed on Amanda Palmer's moves over the years, but very here for her singing about Judy Blume in a library as an implicit protest song, in these days of renewed book banning. (4eva grateful JB wrote one for the boys, "Then Again, Maybe I Won't.") https://t.co/y8Xqg13wAN
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Read and enjoyed a number of Jude Blume's books as a kid. In terms of communicating adolescent male experience, Blume's book "Then Again, Maybe I Won't" (which I read on my own) was far superior to "Catcher in the Rye." https://t.co/t7fwXpcBBV
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Seth Meyers still recalls the lesson he learned from Judy Blume's "Then Again, Maybe I Won't." "I also read 'War and Peace,' I don't remember a f---ing word from it." | Variety Power of Women presented by @LifetimeTV https://t.co/69bBlzwiKT https://t.co/wmWtnlVGer