Oh, sweet Skiles, in all your cinderblock glory!
Oh, sweet Skiles, in all your cinderblock glory!
I have the same fridge in my office!
Friends! Would you or somebody you know want to review our @uminnpress.bsky.social edited collection Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination for @asapartsnow.bsky.social? If so, please head on the journal's site (asapjournal.com/submit/) and pitch your review!
Also, please repost! Thank you!
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Pedro PΓ‘ramo!
Tea Pigs liquorice and peppermint!
Hey #MLA26 π make sure to stop by our booth to view out titles on display and get 40% off with the conference discount!
Can't make it to the booth? Well, let us tell you a secret: you can still get 40% in the virtual exhibitπ€«π
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New on Print Plus: Stephanie J. Brown writes on the deployment of images that depict and enact surveillant mechanisms in her article, "Suffrage Journalism against State Brutality: Surveillance Art in Votes for Women and The Suffragette, 1910β1914": modernismmodernity.org/articles/bro...
This is my emotional support academic productivity podcast.
Absolutely saved my sanity for a few years to track my workload with this; so glad to see the 2026 version available. I like printing paper calendars for the week and tracking by hand at the end of each day, then updating the sheet on Sundays
The Emory Writing Program Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship application is now open! 3/3 teaching in first-year writing with opportunities to design/instruct upper-level classes in rhet/comp. Renewable up to three years. All PhDs with experience/interest in writing are welcome to applyβshare widely!
My first book (timely as ever if you ask me) and all of @univnebpress.bsky.social's catalog is 50% off this month with coupon code 6HLW25.
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Marina Tsvetaeva:
Update: best $40 Iβve ever spent, pedagogically speaking. Freewriting remains undefeated
The way an English major simply rises to the occasion!
Makes me think of this! Moeβs Sequence for Teaching the Sentence
The cover of Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Writer the British Surveillance State, 1905-1924 by @StephJayb.bsky.social. One a white backdrop, a photograph from 1908 shows a procession of suffragist women carrying grates, which was a sign that they had served prison terms for pro-suffrage offenses. At the edge of the photo, a policeman stands with his back to the marchers.
Came out last year between Christmas and the inauguration, so was definitely at top of everyone's mind...
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Fashion challenge: Thanksgiving but you will also need to be at the ready to hang outside with your dog, who you brought along due to his seemingly insurmountable separation anxiety
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. Itβs libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. π
For University Press Week, we're highlighting the important, collaborative work that Senior Acquisitions Editor @rcolesworthy.bsky.social does to build bridges across the scholarly publishing ecosystem: tinyurl.com/3t7mdnef/
#TeamUP #ReadUP
We are at it again! Myself & the wonderful @rcolesworthy.bsky.socialπ
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list ππ please spread the word!!!
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They make me very anxious, but Iβve found it helpful to talk to the dentist about that first and make sure you feel clear about what to expect. Think about what kind of communication will help manage any stress for you, and good luck! I found them a lot easier than I feared.
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Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 π
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Who up weeping--just a little--as they read Raymond Williams?
My book (made possible by @samcohen.bsky.social) on why fiction writers are always, always writing about writer's block is out next week (yikes!). It centers critiques of literary institutions/markets and compositional lessons for real writers. Consider pre-ordering! BLOCK40 will discount by 40%
So awesome; canβt wait to read it!
If you don't yet have a copy of Mel Micir's brilliant THE PASSION PROJECTS, Princeton is having an ungodly 70% off sale. Now's your chance. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
"This is the human in humanistic thinking. Itβs the realization of knowing we need each other more than we think: we need each other in order to think."
Great review of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century from @profdgd.bsky.social!
30% off through the Pressβs site with discount code 01SOCIAL30 too!
Itβs the official publication day for Painful Forms! Iβm so pleased to see the book out in the world and grateful forever to @uncpress.bsky.social for making that happen. uncpress.org/978146968894...