Ted Sherarts
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | teacher |
| Location | Owatonna, Minnesota, United States |
| Introduction | For 40 years or so, I lived and taught in the central Minnesota town of St. Cloud (pop. 60,000), then moved to Owatonna (pop. 25,000) where I continue to live today with my wife LaVona |
| Interests | W. G. Sebald, David Foster Wallace, The Threepenny Review, amateur baseball, David Waggoner, Robert Irwin, Raymond Pettibon, Philip Roth, Derrida, Bruno Schulz, Parkett, Walker Evans, Miyazawa Kenji, Ozu, Lake George, empathy, Wendy S. Walters, Greil Marcus |
| Favorite movies | The Last Picture Show, Wings of Desire, Footlight Parade, Blue Velvet, Casablanca, Singing in the Rain, Dog Star Man |
| Favorite music | Arvo Part, Carol Sloane, Blossom Dearie, Glen Gould, Jessica Williams, Hank Williams,Matt Wilson, Ruby Braff, Oscar Peterson, Brentano String Quartet, Tokyo String Quartet, Carla Bley, Shostakovich, Woody Herman, Carla Bley, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bix Beiderbecke |
| Favorite books | Indignation, Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Vibrator by Mari Akasaka, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, A Documentary History of Art by Elizabeth G. Holt, A Reader by Raymond Pettibon, Wendell Berry, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler, Rings of Saturn |