on today's episode of racial capitalism
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on today's episode of racial capitalism
Incredible how much of the writing on The Bear is more or less meaningless words that do nothing more than indicate what emotion the writers want to convey
Leon Edel’s Henry James, The Untried Years: 1843–1870 and The Ghostly Tales of Henry James
We’ll see how long this takes, but pairing Edel’s five volumes on James with an accompanying book for each (or at least a couple early short stories, for this first volume).
If you're a federal worker who's experienced the absurdity of laboring under this regime, the editors of the Amenia Free Review would love to hear from you (if you DM me, I'm happy to provide my Signal, too, if preferred).
I'm excited to do some nonfiction editing with my friends at
the Amenia Free Review. To that end, I put down a few thoughts on what I'd like to see (in short, writing that understands itself as a politically engaged form of art). I hope you'll pitch!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I'm excited to do some nonfiction editing with my friends at
the Amenia Free Review. To that end, I put down a few thoughts on what I'd like to see (in short, writing that understands itself as a politically engaged form of art). I hope you'll pitch!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
If you're a writer in NYC, I'm serving as a literature judge for Café Royal Cultural Foundation this year! Café Royal is giving out grants of up to $10,000 for NYC-based writers. Submissions for the quarter just closed, but will reopen on March 4th.
caferoyalculturalfoundation.org
An incredibly embarrassing industry, I'm afraid to say
Back at it (one last time)
When the archive is closed on Mondays, the only thing to do is keep ripping through this
Nearly every time I feed my sourdough starter then stir it with a spoon, it gains an extra gram of weight and I'm wondering to myself if yeast doesn't have access to some sort of portal or wormhole technology
The CUNY Digital History Archive is looking to expand and we need all the help we can get. Join us!
Democrats have spent years carefully abandoning political positions it fears might cost them votes, each time getting closer to the ultimate goal: a political party that has zero positions and therefore cannot lose votes.
Multiple sources are now reporting LLMs aren't scaling as hoped—larger datasets and more compute aren't improving AI systems as fast.
The companies, naturally, are pressing on, calling for billions more in investment. One way to read this: The hope is to make AI too big to fail.
The fight for access to education - & for the persistence of scholarship, libraries, & archives - is entering a new phase.
And the vanguard is, as always, HBCUs.
Urgent episode with @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @ajdouglas.bsky.social, Jelani Favors, Kelly Grotke, Jared Loggins, & Crystal Sanders.
(seriously) starting revisions today with the pulling of one thread from chapter one, as it presently exists, to make a new chapter one—surely the most unbearable part of the writing process that one wishes to never repeat
Cat staring at birds from window
Junco patrol
Ready for some holiday travel @lclaberge.bsky.social
Cover of the book “Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History” by Eli Friedlander
Excited to dive into this one, especially after doing a bit of Benjamin re-reading recently
Can't wait to read this! Sounds super interesting
A cat whose paw is resting on a copy of Thomas McGuane’s “To Skin a Cat”
Not a McGuane fan, I suppose
i think the one thing i am most struck by is how fragile these personalities are. most of them received essentially mild pushback and immediately jettisoned whatever principles they claimed to have inthesetimes.com/article/form...
Two volume box of Henry James’s The Princess Casamassima
One volume of The Princess Casamassima, with a marbled cover
A fun edition of The Princess Casamassima I picked up a couple weeks ago (at the always excellent Our Bookshop in Saugerties, NY) which includes the original printing of Trilling’s essay on the book
Today is the official publication day for my book, and I couldn't be happier to see this excerpt—on the historical novels of @colson.bsky.social, and the book that started it all—published in LitHub!
Fun fact: NYC libraries didn't use to be open on Sundays. Jews petitioned City Hall to open the libraries on Sundays because Saturday was Shabbes, and observant Jews who worked during the week had difficulty using the library.
Fun fact: one way that the collapse of Twitter has made things harder for small pubs is that it's now really difficult to get stuff like this in front of the people who might have a pitch.
RT to help a small history mag out. 🗃️ contingentmagazine.org/x-files/
Just learned it's university press week. I've tried to show a bit of love throughout the year with many of these Sources Cited entries (incl. representation from Columbia, @mitpress.bsky.social, Chicago, and @uncpress.bsky.social)
ICU doctors were forced to flee a NICU while leaving babies on ventilators behind for this
I have a hard time imagining being this sort of person—or the countless people who rebroadcast this message and aren't feeling the deepest wells of shame
Devastating portrait of 5 teachers gone from WVU, including the writer Ann Pancake, who left "due to what she called the 'gutting' of the university." News to me: the flagship university at the only state entirely within Appalachia is losing its Appalachian studies minor.