bensmith
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | An urban teacher, writer, former writing teacher, father, and thinker. I'm finishing an advanced degree while starting a new career in education. |
| Interests | creative writing, creative nonfiction, American literature, American culture, American History, The Great Depression, teaching literature, teaching writing, politics, Presidential trivia, film, film study, online fiction, William Faulkner, Herman Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarantino, Flannery O'Connor, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Alice Munro, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Willa Cather |
| Favorite movies | Dead Poets Society, Fight Club, Braveheart, Dave, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Silence of the Lambs, Red Dawn, Shakespeare in Love, Back to the Future, Transformers, Glory, Band of Outsiders, Rear Window, Major League, Terminator, Blade Runner, Star Wars, Hero, The Matrix, Apocalypse Now, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, Memento, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Barton Fink, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, Raising Arizona, Alien, 2001, Dr. Strangelove, The Village, Signs, The Natural |
| Favorite music | Weezer, Radiohead, Coldplay, The Beatles, The Doors, Mozart, J.S. Bach, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, Ben Folds Five, New World Symphony, Miles Davis |
| Favorite books | For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Garden of Eden, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Shining, Salem's Lot, It, The Dead Zone, Light in August, As I Lay Dying, The Hamlet, The Sound and the Fury, The Sun Also Rises, The Turn of the Screw, Huckleberry Finn, David Copperfield, Cranford, The Mill on the Floss, Washington Square, Winesburg, Oh Pioneers!, Long Days Journey Into Night, Lolita, Invisible Man, Moby Dick, Beloved, The Great Gatsby, The Marrow of Tradition, Ceremony, The Country of the Pointed Firs, The American, Keywords, The Country and the City, China Men, The House on Mango Street, Black Boy, Sanctuary |