No one asks the student if algebra pleases him or if he finds it satisfactory that some French verbs are irregular, but if he prefers Hersey to Hawthorne, his taste must prevail.No child needs to be assigned Hersey or Steinbeck until he is familiar with a certain amount of the best work of Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, the early James, and Crane [we can quibble with the names; I certainly quibble with Cooper's inclusion], and he does not need to be assigned these until… [read post]

Some of the best and most notable works of this sort from the previous century—works like John Hersey’s Hiroshima; Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff; Janet Malcolm’s The Journalist and the Murderer; James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time; Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief; Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, et cetera—are canon at this point. [read post]

Urbelis 250 points, 5 answers Michael Howard Joseph, 210 points, 5 answers The Top 10 Legal Filings Viewed in Justia Dockets in March 2012 A lawsuit filed by parents who accused Pennsylvania’s Hersey Medical Center of taking their baby and kicking them out of the hospital. [read post]