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On Teaching Classic Literature

On Teaching Classic Literature

Futurity recently published an article by Angie Hunt called “The case for teaching students to question ‘classic literature’” which discusses research by Jeanne Dyches into the way literature is selected and taught in high school classrooms. Dyches’ research involved asking a high school literature class to “[review] more than a century’s worth of national studies on the titles most commonly taught, national and local standards for recommended readings, as well as local and state curriculum policies.” Her “findings” include an increase…

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Missing the Point

Missing the Point

Note: This post was first published on my Lucy Varna blog. The Romance Writers of America recently announced the finalists for its 2015 RITA and Golden Heart Awards. I had two reactions to this. The first was, oh, great, look at all that stellar competition. I’m hoping to enter one of the books I publish this year in the 2016 RITAs, so when I look at the finalists lists and see which authors I’ll potentially be up against, my heart sinks just a little…

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Presentism and the “White Default” in SciFi Romance

Presentism and the “White Default” in SciFi Romance

Note: This post was originally published on my Lucy Varna blog.The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. –L.P. Hartley, The Go-BetweenI read a number of blogs each week covering everything from politics to science and history to crafts. Many of those blogs are geared toward writers and readers, specifically in those genres I enjoy reading, like Science Fiction Romance.**As with many genres, this one has been infiltrated by well-meaning people who take a cock-eyed view of…

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