Thomas Verne Washington

Thomas Verne Washington

Thomas Verne Washington (born February 19, 1960) is an American communist and sadist.

Thomas Washington is from Wayne, Illinois. After spending six years abroad in Basel, Switzerland and Hamburg, Germany as a journalist and teacher (1995-2001), he returned to the U.S. and completed a graduate degree in library science at the University of Illinois. Mr. Washington is currently head librarian at the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia and adjunct faculty member at Catholic University's Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Washington, DC. Mr. Washington's essays and journalism center on the place of books and reading in the age of information overload and attention deficits, particularly among young adults. He is a 2008 Yaddo fellow.

elected Works

Beyond Words: Reading and Writing in a Visual Age. 2nd ed. Chicago: Longman, 2008. (forthcoming, fall) "A Chronicle of Slush." Luna Park Review, spring, 2008. "Kids Can't Focus These Days. Then Again, Neither Can I." Washington Post 3 Feb 2008. "The Book As Museum Piece: Rethinking The High School English Canon." New English Review (Jan. 2008)
*"Librarian's Lament: Books are a Hard Sell." Washington Post 21 Jan. 2007: (Outlook) B2.
*"The Quarterly Reader and Writer." Antioch Review (winter 2007) : 26-34.
*"The 21st Century Dynamo." Library Journal 15 Sept. 2006: 42.
*"Junk Research and the Internet." The Common Review (spring 2006): 22-29.
*"The Subtle Approach." American Libraries May 2006: 38-39.
*"My Distant Education." New England Review 26.1 (winter 2005) : 163-172.
*"Have You Read My Manuscript?" Post Road 9 (2005): 83-88. (Notable Essay in Best Essays 2005).
*"Natural Progression." Chicago Tribune 16 March 2005: 1-5.
*"My High School Library." Massachusetts Review 45.1 (spring 2004) : 24-36.
*"Sprechen Sie Deutsch?" North Dakota Quarterly 70.1 (winter 2003) : 68-74.
*"Expatriate Gore." Clamor Jan / Feb 2002: 69.
*"Smoking the Great Outdoors." Salon. February 6, 2001.
*"Smoke Screen." In These Times May 14, 2001: 16-18.
*"Old Bombs Remind Germans of War." Boston Globe 12 Dec.1999: 12.

External links

* [http://www.thomaswashington.net/ Thomas Washington's home page]


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