DM Campbell

They lift your spirits, I bet (they lifted mine, and I'm not even wearing them).

“One of the greatest films never finished. One of Hollywood’s most dangerous alliances. One enduring legend.”

My new book THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY will be published this month by @stickingplacebk.bsky.social – on 27 March, Gloria Swanson’s birthday, no less.

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Biography spotlights Virginia Faulkner’s legacy at Nebraska Press A new biography revisits the life and legacy of Virginia Faulkner, the longtime University of Nebraska Press editor who helped revive Willa Cather’s reputation and build the Bison Books imprint. Once largely overlooked, Faulkner’s influence on the press — and American literary scholarship — still resonates decades later.

"As the University of Nebraska Press marks its 85th year, the house Faulkner helped shape is telling her story from the very imprint she helped build."

VIRGINIA FAULKNER by @neglectedbooks.com was featured in Nebraska Today, with comments from our Editor in Chief @bridgetrbarry.bsky.social!

Bullies back down only after a show of strength.

I have only two of these & must get the others immediately.

The Ex-Files—a survey of some of the Ex-titled books (Ex-Husband, -Mistress, -Racketeer, -Judge, -"It," -etc.) inspired by (or leeching off) the success of Ursula Parrott's 1929 novel, Ex-Wife.

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Film Dope The Visual Arts Library recently acquired most of the dope: Film Dope no.7(1975:Apr.)-no.50(1994:Apr.) We are missing the first 6 issues, and I believe no.50 is the last issue (I know it ceased som…

For quick context, I found THIS useful blog post. Amen!
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Stumbled upon FILM DOPE, series of UK pamphlets from 1970s to early 1990s, digitized + hosted by Margaret Herrick Library Digital Collections. WOW, they are encyclopedic! I don’t know too much about them (yet) but give ‘em a look.

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Golddiggers of 1933. That's "cheap and vulgar Carol" in a fetching geometric dress.

My outdoor Christmas lights are still up. I like to believe they're making February & March brighter.

I always love the James Cagney (as George M. Cohan) breakdown of this in Yankee Doodle Dandy.

Sunrise over a lake.

Good morning.

Edith Wharton Review Seeks New Editor The Edith Wharton Review seeks a new editor. The journal is a peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed publication of the Edith Wharton Society, published twice yearly by Pennsylvania State University …

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Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

Found, by the Library of Congress, a long-lost 1897 Méliès film, 45 seconds long, the first film to portray a robot. If you like Méliès''s whacko early films (and why wouldn't you?), you'll want to see this:

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#Film #Movies #Comedy #SciFi

To paraphrase Don Draper’s pitch for Accutron (“It’s not a time piece. It’s a conversation piece.”: when you hand in an AI paper, all of a sudden it’s not a paper. It’s a conversation piece, since you have to meet with me to define all those fancy, fluffy phrases.

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? Coaching from artificial intelligence chatbots, personalized and accessible at any time, is now shaping how some students write.

In the meantime, WaPo, which has a partnership with OpenAI, continues to cheerlead about how AI is the future (gift link). No conflict of interest there! wapo.st/3MScTxD

True. My students liked having the time & space in class to read, to talk, and to write. They're pelted with distractions all day long, and I told them that our class was a place away from that. It's as if they took a long, deep breath.

I'm glad they are doing well!

I owe my initial discovery of my love of neglected books to shelf serendipity. I even wrote an article years ago about it.

A few years back I was arguing this point with people online, who called it “the myth of serendipity“ in finding books on proximate shelves. They were wrong, but I quit arguing with them, which gave me more time to put that myth-that-wasn’t into practice by going to the library.

Forgive me the self-plug, but I taught a grad sem last fall with Close Reading for the 21C that served as a survey of literary criticism and an intro to method that some students thought would be a good required intro sem

Getting very tired of AI-written book promotion messages such as these (b/c I manage the Stephen Crane Society site): "Dear Stephen Crane, We can promote your book The Red Badge of Courage with expert guidance and social media promotion." I think Stephen Crane did all right by himself, thank you.

Watch party for RIDE THE PINK HORSE. Special guest, Eddie Muller. Saturday, February 21 at 8 PM EST/5 PM PST. Hosted by the Film Noir Club.

I’m hosting a very special #FilmNoirClub watch party on Saturday, February 21, with the “Czar of Noir,” @eddiemuller.bsky.social, joining us.

More info – and a link to watch – as the date grows closer. I just wanted to post about it now so folks could put it in their calendars. Spread the word! 😊

"If Mrs. R. would stay at home I'd get a decent meal." Love that movie!

AI-written prose doesn't care about tense endings.

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

(1) The minute they admit AI or it stinks of AI, I’m out; and (2) Only decent people feel shame; the rest don’t care. So no: they shamelessly opine and want you to read what they haven’t bothered to write.

Attention all you dames, mugs, and birds… join us for a very special #FilmNoirClub live watch with special guest @eddiemuller.bsky.social. Hope everyone can join us!
#FilmNoir

Full programme for the Edith Wharton Summit, June 4-6, now available 😊 edithwharton.org/calendar/sum...

Let me answer that for you: no. I tried this & the transcription of Edith Wharton's handwriting was hilarious: "her lovers are devils." Well, yes, they are, but that's not what Wharton wrote.