This is a fantastic essay!
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This is a fantastic essay!
Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...
Late to the party! Reading Ted Chiang. So interesting 🤨
that must have been amazing!
What is writing important here, I guess is what I am asking...
Seriously folks, why do writers think so much of themselves? I want to concede the importance of conceptualizibg and reading ….
FoR NO REASON
couldn't be prouder!
Jill Frank gives the first Carlyle lecture tuesday at Oxford. www.history.ox.ac.uk/carlyle-lect...
loving your art posts!
what about Mrs Norris? One of the greatest characters in literature imho
Culinary Class Wars is really good! h/t Danny O'Quinn.
Going to start it today!
I am loving the updates. cool depiction of incremental progress
Stigma by Erving Goffman, not. new but still relevant?
I have fallen in love with her! Haven’t gotten to the stories yet, nor all the novels. Such a wonderful writer ❤️
“These totally remarkable renderings – I won’t even say translations – of the superb French Surrealist poet, Philippe Soupault, are nothing short of miraculous."
(Mary Ann Caws)
servinghousebooks.com/philippe-sou...
I can't wait to read this!!
Olga Tokarczuk's Eighteenth Century, Co-chairs Katarzyna Bartoszyska and Deidre Shauna Lynch We are assembling a roundtable on the novels of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. We hope to identify other scholars who are interested in how her fiction lays claim to the legacy of eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, repurposing the Enlightenment’s encyclopedism and universalism and its concepts of print communications, the public sphere, and the trans-national republic of letters. How do we re-see our period —its modernity, its concerns with gender, nature, violence, nation—through the lens provided by this 21st-century Polish novelist? Alternately, how might we trace continuities from the eighteenth century to the present in the formal experiments or thematic concerns of novels such as Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and The Books of Jacob, and what new architectures of totality or concepts of voice might we discover by doing so?
#18thc pals, pls RT: @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social & I are assembling a roundtable for the American Society for 18th-C Studies mting in Philly in April, on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century. Abstracts due 9/22. Pls help us think together about this fabulous novelist's wayward ways with our period & its 📚.
The CoreCivic employee's i.d. badge hangs from a purple lanyard with white lettering: "CoreCivic Diversity Equity Inclusion."
www.commondreams.org/opinion/hous...
honest question: when did the time lag for satisfaction of instant gratification get so short? I seem to remember it being at least a day (except for family members and close friends).
this is a terrific doc. do I have your permission to share it with my chair who is not on Bluesky?
you want to know who stands between us and our better angels? Charles Dickens, that's who! Reading Barnaby Rudge......him and his raven named Grip.
check out my post on Garth Greenwell's Small Rain, with thanks to Kevin Pask and Mark Dow, editors extraordinares: westronwynde750443069.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/2...
any poetry loving friends close to Hudson NY, here's an interesting upcoming event at Flow Chart: www.eventbrite.com/e/philippe-s...
How Hulk Hogan Leg-Dropped the Digital Media Industry www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/m...
sad to learn of David Thomas's death. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6h_...
can you join with more public universities?
shadenfreude?
