Matthew P. Brown

i’ve read five and you can’t go wrong, but this one is this mix of e. m. forster and mike leigh and it’s so good

Yeah, sure. Blame your daughter. Joe, it’s bad enough I use this bit in college classrooms and monographs and cocktail parties and elevators and road trips and salary negotiations, but your pandering to third-graders, yeesh.

Joe.

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“

A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

an early jacket design for the novel A GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK by elizabeth taylor. it features hand-drawn letters for title and author as head and foot of a larger image of two branching trees. between the two trees, a much smaller scaled couple walks.

how much good could a good book do if a good book would get read

i spent 23 minutes explaining the plot to partner & she couldn’t get past face trade while i couldn’t get past emergence from coma

the pleasure of thinking about rewatching *face/off* was so much better than the actual rewatch, the memory of the flipped performances way outweighed the actual performances, esp travolta, i rec this practice of thinknotwatch

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When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

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#BlackHistoryMonth #c19 #19c #NoKings #letterpress

In 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a speech to an antislavery society in Rochester, NY, commonly known as "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

it slays

guys i need physical therapy for my physical therapy

won’t be around and publishers will have grown dependent on LLMs rather than the human skills of author relations, taking chances, growing knowledge. And right, that version of the profession won’t be around; and right, what are the methods of critique.

My point is a sociological one about the publishing profession, rather than scholars. Between the loss of institutional memory and the fact of worker displacement, I don’t find succor in a smart use of an LLM in our moment (I know that's not your point). Because in the future that wise colleague...

less interested in average user or normies. my sense is you are isolating a professional who uses AI in a constructive way built out of their 20+ years of wisdom. future pros in this field won't have that wisdom. maybe the q is this: what do vectors of critique look like, as per ur final point?

as with so many mindful uses of AI in the professional writing world, i wonder what happens to the rising crew, after the folks like the one you are describing who have non-AI wisdom, are no longer around and no one is using AI in that integrative way

The book cover of Judith Pascoe's ON THE BULLET TRAIN WITH EMILY BRONTE featuring 9 squares with images ranging from manga Heathcliffs to a photographed, supersonic Tokyo railcar

If you tire of the dumb Emerald Fennell thing within 20, 10, 5 minutes, why not try its opposite: ON THE BULLET TRAIN WITH EMILY BRONTE, the capacious, witty, and crazy smart book by mighty @judithmpascoe.bsky.social

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Because, in my opinion, the greatest dilemma public colleges across the country face is that they NEVER receive enough state or federal funding. So they are forced to submit grant applications to the country’s philanthropic organizations to fit an ever-growing gap. THIS IS THE ENTIRE PROBLEM.

Can’t wait, bravx!

Yeah @marenmorris.bsky.social gets it

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Genre bending The realist fiction of the eighteenth century took its origin, or at least part of it, from the single-sheet essay-periodicals that were the talk of

"invariably entertaining" and "exuberant, erudite" and "occasionally infuriating": man, this TLS review. i feel seen: excluding the first two, and the adverb "occasionally," this is exactly what my loved ones say about me. #18c #c18 #vastearlyamerica #bookhistory
www.the-tls.com/literature/p...

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🎶It’s time to wheedle pub reps
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John Hench the scholar to read on this phenomenon.

Genre bending The realist fiction of the eighteenth century took its origin, or at least part of it, from the single-sheet essay-periodicals that were the talk of

honored by this tls review of *the novel and the _____*, it's behind a paywall sorry but maybe you can, as my would-be leather-panted teen self would exclaim, BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE www.the-tls.com/literature/p...

the voters of a rich suburban district outside New York City just voted for a Sanders/AOC-endorsed labor organizer who wants to abolish ICE