Brian Platzer
@BPlatzer
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Bed-Stuy Is Burning (‘17), The Body Politic (‘20), Taking the Stress out of Homework (‘21), The Optimists (‘26). Chronically dizzy.
Bed-Stuy
Joined August 2010
Great book talk with @BPlatzer and @mattyglesias at Politics and Pros. Buy The Optimist - https://t.co/WTWrYwgFZQ
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Novelist @BPlatzer says writers shouldn’t take character names too seriously. Sometimes the goal is simple: make them memorable… even if that means inventing someone like “Syzlvia Gorog.” But the novel behind the jokes comes from a much heavier place. Platzer’s book The
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I finally achieved my lifelong goal of chopping it up with the great @pescami @PescaGist on the occasion of my new novel, The Optimists! https://t.co/cATyav9Hor
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Podcast Episode · The Gist · March 4 · 30m
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Come out tonight to Politics and Prose at The Wharf to see me and my friend @BPlatzer talk about his amazing new novel THE OPTIMISTS. https://t.co/Vj90Rym8wF
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NEW EPISODE: Novelist, essayist, and educator Brian Platzer joins co-hosts @Wsterrell and @V_V_G to discuss his new novel, The Optimists, which follows private school teacher Mr. Keating over three decades. @lithub
https://t.co/RkeO27h9ml
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Novelist, essayist, and educator Brian Platzer joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his new novel, The Optimists, which follows private school teacher Mr. Keating over …
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What a week in New York City. We weathered one of the biggest snowstorms in decades, but it did not slow us down. On Tuesday, Skyline’s President, Scott Powell, attended the book launch for The Optimists by distinguished Grace Church School teacher, @BPlatzer, at The Great Hall
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"'Every teacher’s story about a former student is unreliable by design, because the student is not there to interrupt." @BPlatzer shared a playlist for his novel The Optimists at @largeheartedboy
https://t.co/dqy1CVZcU4
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I dove into Brian Platzer’s “The Optimists” based on the title, the cover image and a single sentence. It was a good choice, writes the Biblioracle. https://t.co/ZA7NwX9H57
chicagotribune.com
Sometimes, I like to choose a book based upon a truly minimal amount of information, to just see a title, a cover, a single line of description and dive in.
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The Teacher Who Changed My Life, Married Me to My Wife and Never Left My Side (Exclusive)
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In an exclusive essay, author Brian Platzer writes of Mr. Keating, the influential teacher who inspired his new novel 'The Optimists.'
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Here’s the A Better Billion website and report. Hopefully, @ZohranKMamdani and staff play around with it. I’m sure he’d love it. We aren’t bringing back the 9, but lots of great stuff:
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A 1984 feature by Dan Patrick on a young Don Mattingly.
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Thanks, @Harvf, for the thoughtful and generous review!
From @ShelfAwareness my review of @BPlatzer’s wistful novel about a dedicated teacher and his most exceptional student, THE OPTIMISTS: https://t.co/RKC7IC3ava
@littlebrown
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