Open Journal Montreal

I asked my teenage sisters to read this essay by Paul Graham, because I think I wish I’d read it when I was a kid, and to share with us their responses. Here’s what they came up with. The entire essay can be found on Paul Graham’s website: http://www.paulgraham.com
When I said I was speaking at [...]

Kurt Vonnegut wrote many of my favorite novels. When I was twelve or thirteen I wrote him a letter in which I remember mentionning that he would probably make a great high school teacher, and that I wished he was a teacher at my school. He never responded, but then he was probably very busy [...]