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Russ Weeks
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The person who could be truly alone, in the company of no one but oneself and one’s own thoughts—that person was stronger than anyone else.
“I want my students to understand that the ability to evaluate and judge is not a school skill; it is a life skill.”
― Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts
― Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts
“The man here tells us a truth that is awful - we baptise ourselves with names that are far from the only truth about ourselves.”
― In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
― In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
“I was learning the craft of poetry, which really was an intensive version of what my mother had taught me all those years ago—the craft of writing as the art of thinking. Poetry aims for an economy of truth—loose and useless words must be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“I can tell you that I am a man who is cognizant of his world, a man who has a family, who loves a family, who has been torn from his family, a man who can read and write, a man who will not let his story be self-related, but self-written.”
― James
― James
Russ’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Russ’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,048 books
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81 friends
2,313 books
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102 friends
1,219 books
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115 friends
1,206 books
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111 friends
320 books
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28 friends
1,033 books
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209 friends
2,577 books
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318 friends
302 books
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112 friends
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