Tom McBride
Tom McBride is co-author of the annual Beloit College Mindset List.
He is a specialist in Shakespeare. For 42 years he taught at Beloit, where he won an award for excellence in teaching. He also coordinated the Mackey Distinguished Writers' Program and the First Year Initiatives Program.
He has published both critical essays and creative non-fiction in journals as diverse as Texas Studies in Language and Literature, Two Cities and The Common Review.
He co-authored, with Ron Nief, The Mindset Lists of American History (Wiley, 2011) and The Mindset List of the Obscure (Sourcebooks, 2014).
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In honor of St. Patrick's Day, Tom McBride spins a poem about the slow worm. -
If it's Plath vs. Strait, who's Tom McBride going to root for? -
Tom McBride likes cats. And they seem pretty cool with him, too. -
Tom McBride puts our place in the universe in Perspective. -
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Tom McBride urges you to not be so cynical about the state of the world. -
Tom McBride remembers what it's like to look at the world with a child's eyes. -
Tom McBride says it's the journey, not the destination, when it comes to love. -
What did we talk about before Netflix? Tom McBride ponders. -
Sure, AI can write you a poem in an instant about anything. But Tom McBride says the true miracle is that low-tech device lining your bookshelves.
