Brenden Gallagher Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Brenden Gallagher

I found Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Tóibín, a biography of three parents of famous Irish authors, extremely compelling, full of poetic depth. https://t.co/tEq6VIEWKh

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Mark Twain’s “The Innocents Abroad” is sharp, hilarious, and ahead-of-it’s-time… except when it isn’t. https://t.co/h7RIlT6KE8

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@captainkierke The IP here is public domain but from the wiki "The first book that the show's creator, David Milch, purchased as research for the series was Deadwood: The Golden Years by Watson Parker, a historian who specialized in the history of the Black Hills."

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I’m listening to a book about British literature and I learned that some academics are trying to cancel Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales might as a result be low key problematic.

Brenden Gallagher

“A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School” by @Edu_Historian & @BisforBerkshire is an excellent and infuriating look at the movement to turn America’s public schools into a free market privatized nightmare. https://t.co/s3JSR7izuo

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Top Books I Read in 2022 (1 of 2) 1. Thalia, A Texas Trilogy by Larry McMurtry 2. The Lonesome Dove Series by Larry McMurtry 3. The Method: How the 20th Century Learned to Act by @parabasis 4. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 5. Shooting to Kill by @kvpi

Brenden Gallagher

Top Books I Read in 2022 (1 of 2) 1. Thalia, A Texas Trilogy by Larry McMurtry 2. The Lonesome Dove Series by Larry McMurtry 3. The Method: How the 20th Century Learned to Act by @parabasis 4. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 5. Shooting to Kill by @kvpi

Brenden Gallagher

I'm listening to a history of the IRA and I found out that the Republican prisoners read Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" in prison which all collegiate theater kids should be familiar with.

Brenden Gallagher

When Gabriel García Márquez was writing "One Hundred Years of Solitude," he locked himself in a room for a year and a half & his wife made sure no one bothered him. When he came out, his wife said "We're $12,000 in debt & I had to sell the blender to pay rent. I hope it's good."

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“Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy” by Richard Zacks is probably the wildest “getting out of debt” story I’ve ever read https://t.co/OojSWBxSzZ