Let's talk Slaughterhouse-Five and PTSD: I'm running a seminar w/ Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library for anyone, esp. teachers who want to discuss trauma in the classroom. Join us: shorturl.at/fP139

Teachers, how do you talk about trauma with Generation Z? Try Vonnegut! I'm leading a virtual seminar (for all Vonnegut-fans, humans, etc) this Thursday (7/21) at 7pm on the subject of PTSD & Slaughter-House Five. Join us: shorturl.at/fP139 David W. Blight mattgallagher0

This is a workshop you won't want to miss! Renowned journalist, Tom Roston teaches Slaughterhouse-Five like never before. Register here: eventbrite.com/e/nothing-was-… For info on the full 2022 Teaching Vonnegut series, please visit kvml.org/teaching-vonne…

💥Participated in Teaching Vonnegut PD this week—so many ideas to start the Franklin Central High School school year! Thank you Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library @1DrewADO Barry W. Lynn Tom Roston 📚✍🏼☀️

Join KVML Board Chair, comedian Lewis Black and his friends, including musician Jason Yeager, journalist David Brancaccio, publisher Dan Simon, and more for an evening to benefit the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library on September 8th. eventbrite.com/.../a-night-wi…...

Looking forward to celebrating Kurt Vonnegut tonight with Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library Lewis Black & other NYC free thinkers eventbrite.com/e/a-night-with…

This is like writing a birthday card on used toilet paper but Vonnegut would've turned 100 today so HBD Kurt! He would've hated Twitter but maybe not Elon Musk. KV once sold cars and would've loved Tesla. And he had a strange fondness for. . .

#ICYMI Our #reviewoftheweek provides a literary critique of Kurt Vonnegut’s "Slaughterhouse-Five" through the lens of Vonnegut’s PTSD as a combat-veteran in Tom Roston's “The Writer’s Crusade” from ABRAMS Books: ow.ly/kG8j50LCuC5 #Vonnegut #bookreview #ptsd

My tale of woe regarding the passport mess threatening all Americans who travel this year: link.medium.com/i2SHSeAAHyb #AmericanAirlines Tottenham Hotspur Department of State americanair

‘We Give a Sh*t’: Gun Safety Defines the John Wick Franchise as Much as the Weapons Do indiewire.com/2023/04/john-w… via @indiewire

We're experiencing a Passport Perfect Storm and airlines like americanair are profiting from change/cancellation fees. We, the people, suffer. Sad! link.medium.com/3slRzHPHKyb Isabella Kwai Mark Salisbury Good Morning America TODAY

The Passport Perfect Storm might stop me from seeing Tottenham Hotspur this Saturday. Not only is my team imploding, so is traveling outside the USA link.medium.com/QvR1sLvHKyb americanair British Airways

Saw powerful doc After Work Hot Docs yesterday; great aesthetic narrative about the meaning of work/life with profound visits to Italy, Kuwait, South Korea and Noam Chomsky. Watch for it...

Saw @mstyslav9’s devastating, epic 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL Hot Docs. This is the window into the Russian invasion of #Ukraine that everyone must see: the horror and the humanity. Look for FRONTLINE releasing it in July.

Hey all; real question: how does the Writers Guild of America West Writers Guild of America East strike impact the documentary film industry? Michael Moore Alex Gibney @realSarahPolley (she/her) Hot Docs

Thanks, Rebecca!

Doc filmmakers talk about the challenges of what they do: shorturl.at/oqC49

Journalist Tom Roston Examines Mental Health Issues Among Documentary Filmmakers podbean.com/ep/pb-p6zix-14…

Students at NYU asked the creators of South Park the million-dollar question: “What makes a good story?” They gave one of the best explanations of story I’ve heard: “If we can take the beats of your outline, and the words ‘and then’ belong between those beats… you got

A legacy of 9/11 is that our bipartisan nation took care of the families of the immigrant workers who died that day. (Most, if not all, of the undocumented who died worked at Windows on the World.) Our kitchens are still run by immigrants. Don't turn on them now.