John Hay

I wrote a little about Pynchon’s new novel for @review31.bsky.social

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UNLV’s English Department is looking to hire a tenure-track creative writing professor of literary nonfiction

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James—PC is underrated

History Erik Baker, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America (Harvard University Press), 352 pp. Hardback, $35.00. Erik Baker’s Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Wor…

"Baker’s book astutely captures the cultural abandonment of the worker for the celestial sheen of the CEO."

A review of Erik Baker's "Make Your Own Job": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/history-5/

Current Issue Issue #10 April 2025 Fiction: Jon Hickey, Big Chief (Simon & Schuster) Poetry: Rachel Richardson, Smother (Norton) Fiction: Frederic S. Durbin, The Country Under Heaven (Melville House) History…

Check out the current issue (Issue #10) of the Las Vegas Review of Books: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/current-issue/

"Over a half-century of accelerating crises . . . tenured humanities faculty have expressed surprisingly little organized interest in the material well-being of their fields . . . even as its relative poverty came to hurt the careers of their own students." www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🗃️

I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it

Past Is Prologue George R. Stewart’s 1948 novel Fire, recently reissued, has a contemporary resonance.

I wrote about George R. Stewart’s novel “Fire” for Alta: www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...

Review 31's Books of the Year 2024 Review 31 is an online literary review.

I wrote a bit about Forrest Gander’s new book for Review 31: review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...

Did anyone else who published with Cambridge get a request to sign over their work for “AI Subsidiary Aggregation”? They claim we’ll be paid a 20% royalty, but I’m highly suspicious. Are other university presses doing this?

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Very pleased to see my essay on Longfellow in the newest issue of Raritan: www.proquest.com/docview/2919...

Saeculum How the notion of unique eras influenced the Roman view of time and the narration of history from various perspectives. The Victorian Era. The Age of Enlight...

Happy publication to my brother’s new book: “Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought,” out from the University of Texas Press
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477327395/

My review of “Utopia in the Early U.S.” is in the new issue of “Early American Literature”: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/article/903797

Dog Eat Dog John Hay: The Vegan - Andrew Lipstein reviewed by John Hay | Review 31: an online literary review.

My review of Andrew Lipstein’s new novel, “The Vegan,” is up at Review 31: http://review31.co.uk/article/view/883/dog-eat-dog