Author: Trevor Payne

Trevor Payne is a writer and has been an educator for the Ladue and Radnor public schools for 25 years. He received his BA degree in English from Stanford University and MFA degree in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has served as a book reviewer for the Literary Review and is currently an Editor at the newly launched Taint Taint Taint literary magazine.
English: Cover illustration by Francis Cugat (1893–1981). Published by Charles Scribner's Sons., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Why The Great Gatsby Fails and The Things They Carried Succeeds: War and Love in the Eleventh Grade Classroom

I know from teaching literature to teenagers for a generation that this latest bunch are not naturally romantic, and so the earnest attitude that typifies modernist American literature can be a tough sell. The raw poignant cynicism of the current pop cultural rights of passage, like Breaking Bad or Orange ... Read More
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