Dr. Yaceczko and Mr. Breslin discuss how we, as parents and teachers, can guide our boys through the ever expanding realm of modern children’s literature– some of it great, some of it fine, some of it pernicious.
About the Guests
Joe Breslin
Fifth Grade Homeroom
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
-Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
Joe Breslin teaches writing, and other homeroom subjects at the Heights School. In 2022, he published Other Minds: 13 Tales of Wonder and Sorrow. His next collection of speculative fiction, Hearts Uncanny, will be released late summer of 2024. Samples of his fiction and his essays can be found at joeybreslinwrites.com.
Lionel Yaceczko
Latin, Greek
Lionel Yaceczko holds a BA from the University of Dallas, where he wrote a thesis on Propertius, and a MA and Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America. His dissertation on education in the Roman Empire led to the publication of his book Ausonius Grammaticus (Gorgias Press, 2021). He is also the author of an introductory Latin textbook, Jeromeâ€...