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Michael Pershan

@mpershan.bsky.social

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math teacher, writer teaching blog: pershmail.substack.com reading/writing blog: michaelpershan.substack.com website with links to publications etc: michaelpershan.com

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hey check this out!!

HAD @havehashad.com · Aug 11

haven't read a story-within-the-story before quite like today's from Michael Pershan. really love this one!!

"She said at sleepover parties they play this game. Each person says a sentence and together they make up a story. I said, you start..."

https://www.havehashad.com/81ev5

The Gorgeous Fly by Michael Pershan

When she was eight my daughter biked past a five-foot tall shrub without looking and was hit by a car coming out of the alley. Thank goodness she was fine, though she’d broken her leg in several…

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 9h

Memoir should be shelved under fiction

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 17h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Derrick @dmartincampbell.bsky.social · 9h

Internet publishing and its necessary preference for flash fiction has utterly transformed a generation of story writers’ ability to write an immersive, mid-length story

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 17h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 10h

Ooh here's a good provocation, most flash fiction would ideally be longer or shorter, usually longer.

Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 10h

If our culture is collectively going to stop reading we're going to need more oral storytelling. Maybe this is why standup is culturally important.

Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 10h

Reading is not an unalloyed good, books can in fact be bad for you.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 17h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 10h

Loving-kindness is good but we should keep going. Gevurah is cosmic-majesty. Malchut is eternal-kingship.

Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 11h

I think it must be older than Koren...but why not kindness? What is loving-kindness? Who came up with that?

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 11h

Loving-kindness is such an interesting translation of chesed. I notice it every time.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 11h

Listening to this song on repeat while I try to turn a stupid joke into a story.

Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 11h

Bob Dylan
wouldn't have
thought of this song.

A couple reasons,
He wasn't here
for one.

Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · Aug 19

Bob dylan couldn't have written this song
not even if he wanted to
not even just for fun

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHUp...

Ada Lea - bob dylan's 115th haircut [Official Audio]

YouTube video by Saddle Creek

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 17h

Paul Simon, I love you.

Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social · 19h

Happy birthday to Paul Simon, songwriter and guitarist of exceptional subtlety but who wrote a song with the best of "crap" in pop. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2018/09/08/r...

Ranking my favorite Paul Simon’s albums

When this list goes live, I’ll be watching the Dangler of Conversations in a hockey arena. But let me preserve the following in amber. You won’t find 1975’s Grammy-winning Still C…

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly it's the same old, same old.

Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 1d

Did something fun early enough on the internet and got to have his opinions taken seriously forever.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 1d

Sal Khan's career is very much a "right place right time" situation and he has not learned a single thing about teaching in all these years.

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d

sal khan on his true north knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/at-k...

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

Worthwhile account by @mpershan.bsky.social of Cognitive Load Theory here cognitiveloadtheory.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 1d

12 hours, the fastest non-HAD rejection I have ever recieved. Impressed!

Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 1d

It's really not very good! Lots of confusing technical vocabulary that they invented and put on homeworks. I found it very hard to teach with. Look at all the complexity in these instructions.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 1d

If I were the guy who was responsible for funding EngageNY, I definitely wouldn't be bragging about it.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 1d

John Jeremiah Sullivan! ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/john-jerem...

Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 3d

Sure is a lot of stuff about freemasons in War & Peace.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 3d

Shaye! Yeah, I like that book and I appreciate the rec for the other.

Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 3d

Any good reading recommendations?

Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 3d

For sure...though I'm not sure about the 16th century as the dividing line. Certainly in Renaissance Italy we weren't thinking of ourselves as one big tribe? Then again the trickiness of fitting Jewry into the structure of European collectives is part of the story also.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 3d

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Does Jewish Peoplehood Have a Future? - Noam Pianko

YouTube video by StroumJewishStudies

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 3d

Hey I'm frum. So like a lot of these things there is an interesting connection between this bullshit to actual academic/historical claims, though it's being distorted here. Sharing just because I think it's cool, the idea that "AM ISRAEL" means a people - as opposed to religion - is relatively new.