Casey Lartigue's Blog
August 7, 2024
Girl with Black Makeup by Sharon Jang (North Korean refugee)
If you haven't already read it, check out "Girl with Black Makeup" by North Korean refugee Sharon Jang.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Here's a YouTube video where she explains why she wrote the book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olkje...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Here's a YouTube video where she explains why she wrote the book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olkje...
February 13, 2023
Speech at 2 a.m.
Here’s my talk to the Harvard Extension School at 2 a.m. on February 2nd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmRgP...
I will be speaking in Cambridge at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, then May 3, I will be speaking online to the Harvard Club of Seattle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmRgP...
I will be speaking in Cambridge at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, then May 3, I will be speaking online to the Harvard Club of Seattle.
January 8, 2023
Re-reading a book years later
What’s a book you’ve read more than once, but years or even decades between reads, and had a completely different perspective?
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When people ask me if I have read a certain book that I indeed have read, I often hesitate to confirm. Reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" or a book about dating is a different experience at age 16 compared to 36 or 56.
I first read the late Paul Fussell's provocative collection of essays "Thank God for the Atom Bomb" as a graduate student. When I reread it a few years later, I noticed that I had completely skipped the chapter about traveling.
I am a "digital immigrant" who still prefers printed books, newspapers and articles so I can markup the text. I didn't mark a single thing in that travel chapter the first time around.
The second time around, years later, I wondered how I could have missed Fussell's profundity. In particular, I appreciated his point distinguishing among travelers, tourists and explorers.
What had changed? Me. I grew up in Texas and Massachusetts, but had not even crossed the U.S. borders nearby in either direction until after graduate school. Now I am living in South Korea.
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When people ask me if I have read a certain book that I indeed have read, I often hesitate to confirm. Reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" or a book about dating is a different experience at age 16 compared to 36 or 56.
I first read the late Paul Fussell's provocative collection of essays "Thank God for the Atom Bomb" as a graduate student. When I reread it a few years later, I noticed that I had completely skipped the chapter about traveling.
I am a "digital immigrant" who still prefers printed books, newspapers and articles so I can markup the text. I didn't mark a single thing in that travel chapter the first time around.
The second time around, years later, I wondered how I could have missed Fussell's profundity. In particular, I appreciated his point distinguishing among travelers, tourists and explorers.
What had changed? Me. I grew up in Texas and Massachusetts, but had not even crossed the U.S. borders nearby in either direction until after graduate school. Now I am living in South Korea.
January 7, 2023
“Learning English saved my life”
My Greenlight to Freedom co-author posted this at my Korea Times blog.
“Learning English saved my life” about the way learning English saved her life and led her to some unexpected opportunities.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/opin...
Here’s a short video clip from an interview with Yeonmi Park.
https://youtu.be/gK-Nvujn9kE?list=PLn...
“Learning English saved my life” about the way learning English saved her life and led her to some unexpected opportunities.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/opin...
Here’s a short video clip from an interview with Yeonmi Park.
https://youtu.be/gK-Nvujn9kE?list=PLn...
January 3, 2023
Harvard Extension School event
I will be speaking at Harvard University for what I believe will be the 14th time, this time it will be an online book talk about the book Greenlight to Freedom which I wrote along with Songmi Han.
Thank you to the Harvard Extension School for the invitation, I last spoke there (in-person) in 2015.
You can sign up here for updates at FSI’s Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/49097184...
Here’s the official event link to RSVP and to receive the link from Harvard: https://alumni.extension.harvard.edu/...
I tried to figure out how many times I have spoken at Harvard University as an invited speaker.
I can count 14 times and I have the feeling there are one or two other cases I can’t recall at the moment. I told a friend this, she asked me, “How could you forget when you have spoken to Harvard University?”
Thank you to the Harvard Extension School for the invitation, I last spoke there (in-person) in 2015.
You can sign up here for updates at FSI’s Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/49097184...
Here’s the official event link to RSVP and to receive the link from Harvard: https://alumni.extension.harvard.edu/...
I tried to figure out how many times I have spoken at Harvard University as an invited speaker.
I can count 14 times and I have the feeling there are one or two other cases I can’t recall at the moment. I told a friend this, she asked me, “How could you forget when you have spoken to Harvard University?”
