N. H. Kleinbaum’s Dead Poets Society is a curious hybrid: at once a faithful novelization of a widely loved film and an independent, readable meditation on pedagogy, adolescent longing, and the costs of inspirational speech. Working from Tom Schulman’s screenplay (and the film’s vivid visual memory), Kleinbaum translates a cinematic script into a prose text … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum
