Clifton Butt
HPPR Radio Readers Book Club ContributorClifton Butt was born in Amarillo, Texas, but grew up in Clayton, New Mexico. He earned a BA in English from New Mexico State University. Like many English majors, he found himself teaching, first in Leoti, Kansas, and now in Amarillo, Texas where he tortures many Tascosa High School students with a barrage of poems, short stories, and novels. In return, they make many jokes about his last name.
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Hello everyone, this is Clifton Butt, an English teacher in Amarillo, Texas. I'm here to briefly discuss American Mother by Colum McCann with Diane Foley. Before starting this book, I only had vague memories of James Foley, his capture, and his execution at the hands of ISIS in 2014. -
Hello everyone, this is Clifton Butt, an English teacher at Tascosa High School in Amarillo, Texas. I'm here to briefly discuss George Saunders' tremendous 2017 novel Lincoln in the Bardo.
