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Article about the effort to read through Barthelme's entire list of suggested readings for his students. Perhaps more interesting is the actual list itself.

"Frequently, during that hot summer, Dennis would write a dozen cards which had been ordered; we would deliver them, and with the twenty-five cents thus obtained would buy a watermelon. Young Dennis was generous then; he is generous now."

Learn how to correctly drive through an intersection, correctly give a mixed-race handshake, correctly be tied up, and also how to avoid a subway car passing over your head. No doubt indispensable.

"A squirrel like that's a waste of time, and Squeak has work to do!" A great example of the little known genre of of educational films—Squirrel Porn. More educational and weird shorts here and here.