Lucy’s Anthem: What Music Reveals in A Room with a View

A quantitative reading of E.M. Forster’s novel shows that musical diction does more than decorate the prose. It charts a young woman’s liberation.

Mar 22 • Tom Liam Lynch

Read All of Shakespeare's Works at Once

I built a tool that will let you compare word frequencies across all of the Bard's plays. It's dope.

Mar 16 • Tom Liam Lynch

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Wilde Cards is the Literary Game Readers Have Been Waiting For

Can you outwit great authors? Go Wilde!

Mar 14 • Tom Liam Lynch

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February 2026

Read All Shakespeare’s Plays at Once

They all have 5 acts, so that's where things get really interesting

Feb 8 • Tom Liam Lynch

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Tolkien’s Lesson on Computationality and Creativity

–Whilst Smoking His Pipe

Feb 8 • Tom Liam Lynch

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BardBots: Literature Meets Robotics in the Classroom

BardBots is a project in which students are introduced to key concepts in computational thinking via an unlikely combination: Shakespeare and robots.

Feb 1 • Tom Liam Lynch

Classroom Resources (Updated)

Here's where I try to keep up with interesting resources for integrating CS and ELA.

Feb 1 • Tom Liam Lynch

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January 2026

Introducing Plotting Plots

A look back at how it all started.

Jan 26 • Tom Liam Lynch

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Make Some Plots

Here you will find direct links to interactive data visualizations for a wide variety of books. Enjoy.

Jan 26 • Tom Liam Lynch

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January 2025

In The Hunger Games Love Triangle, Did Gale Ever Really Stand a Chance?

A quantitative analysis of Katniss’ love interests in Suzanne Collins's blockbuster novel

Jan 20, 2025 • Tom Liam Lynch

Literature + Math ="Once Upon a Prime"

A math professor's wonderful argument for bridging the worlds of numbers and letters

Jan 20, 2025 • Tom Liam Lynch

For Nobodies to Know Bodies in The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed

After reading Christina Hammonds Reed’s novel The Black Kids, I wanted to return to the concept of “nobody” from Emily Dickinson’s poem. Reed refers to…

Jan 20, 2025 • Tom Liam Lynch