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I see London I see France Make sure you've blocked JD Vance

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You boy, in the ridiculous straw hat, what day is it?

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Happy Bloomsday!! Wish I was in Paris 💔

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"Gaza is not the subject of the next paper. Its writers and artists are not bait for a new grant or fellowship. Its murdered children are not the subject of the next ethnographic study, or the next anthology or the next art installation or digital humanities project."

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We've got an exciting new article joining the Wilde/Joyce collection! #joycestudies Homosexual Panic and Necropolitics in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘A Painful Case’ by Mónica Galindo-González • @openlibhums.bsky.social #OLHJ Vol 11 • No 1 • 2025 • olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

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Congratulations to the selected Brave New Weird authors, including @sjtownend.bsky.social! I am still so happy and thankful to have been shortlisted (top 60!) and am looking forward to the final collection.

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You can bid on a signed and special edition books, bespoke postcards, dragon art, crocheted earrings, embroidered post cards, etc, at the Silent Auction: Genre Creators for Trans Rights: bit.ly/genrefortrans

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Mia Spiro writes in Anti-Nazi Modernism (2012) that “the novels that Barnes, Isherwood, and Woolf wrote [… reveal the] conditions in 1930s Europe that made the continent ripe for disaster.” To this list I would like to add Robert McAlmon's 1920s stories about queer Berlin: medium.com/prismnpen/on...

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In case you needed another reminder about how bogus credit scores are, mine just dropped thirty points because my husband paid off his student loan. We got married last year and have no shared accounts. Capitalism is a ✨scam✨

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Congratulations to all the brilliant authors on the BRAVE NEW WEIRD shortlist! And a hearty & exhausted thanks to the nearly 1000 submissions we had to agonize over. Full list here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/3/... Or in the screenshots🖤☠️ Final Table of Contents will be announced...one day.

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Cool news: My short story "Ten Things I Have Learned About Human Skin" has been shortlisted in Third Annual Brave New Weird Awards. The shortlist was posted 2 April: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/3/... I'm absolutely delighted to be nominated! Thanks @tenebrouspress.bsky.social for including me 🥳

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The James Joyce Centre is delighted to announce the discovery of a long-lost manuscript by James Joyce. Entitled "Finnegan Bakes," it is an easy-to-follow cookbook with recipes for scones, veal cutlets, and fish tacos. Read more about our delicious discovery here: jamesjoyce.ie/long-lost-ma...

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When I’ve posted about the terrible effect tarifs will have on books in Canada, I’ve gotten responses where folks seem to think everything but stuff by Canadian authors will be affected. These folks have no idea that most Canadian popular and academic authors are published in the US.

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“Adorability was one of the unintended consequences .." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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If you subscribe to Blooms via the iOS app, please resubscribe via desktop or browser. You'll be charged more for the privilege of using Apple, but that money goes to Apple and not to us.

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The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2025. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on #OA or with an #openaccess component. 📅 Deadline 30/06: www.openlibhums.org/news/781/

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A writing prompt and a battle cry: medium.com/promptly-wri...

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My book, Guilt and Finnegans Wake, is officially out today with Florida Press. We're having an online launch with @joycesociety.bsky.social on March 4, at 12 pm EST. I wrote a poem to entice you to attend. Maybe you already read it on Facebook. Here it is now:

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Legendary hater Charles Darwin

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Absolutely tickled that 4% of the paper I just finished is the words 'fck' and 'cnt'. (Are we allowed to swear on Bluesky?)

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I don't know if it will make it into the final version when this comes out, but I had a good laugh writing this line:

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I don't normally self-promo, but if you're looking to stock up on romance titles this weekend, make sure to check out @jmsbooksllc.bsky.social's Valentines Day sale: ebooks 40% off Friday thru Monday, mine included! Shop the sale: www.jms-books.com Browse my books: www.jms-books.com/casey-lawren...

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It's here! ready to be read, debated, or strategically placed on your shelf to impress guests. Huge thanks to @floridapress.bsky.social and to @samslote.bsky.social for his support and for his awesome Foreword. Join us for the online launch with the James Joyce Society, New York, on March 4.

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hollywood stealing my naming conventions

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Just got my first rejection of 2025! I'm behind schedule if I want to hit 100 again this year! medium.com/publishous/i...

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Me writing an essay: queering the middle ages is not about uncovering sexual identities, but about examining the ways in which things don't conform to heteronormative study and thereby unsettle the established orthodoxy through which we view the middle ages Also me: hahaha he's so gay

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It would be fun to have sideline reporters at academic conferences. Reporter: "Prof. Rothman, how do you come back from such a devastating Q&A? They really hammered you out there." Me: "All we can do is go back to the archives, find more evidence, and then just trust the process, Helen."

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Dirty Dancing teaches that abortion rights are good and you should never date a guy who reads Ayn Rand, which is 90% of what you need to get through life

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Courtesy of Glenn Johnston…

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I don’t want an undeveloped parcel of land for Christmas. There is just one thing I need: All I want for Christmas is a female sheep.

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🤦🙃

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Ladies, be vigilant! According to my research (4+ Hallmark films), you WILL be approached by a plaid-wearing bachelor/widower with an implausible profession when you go home to your small town this Christmas. BE ON ALERT. He may seem charming compared to your big city fiancé, but DON’T FALL FOR IT.

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Wishing everyone the best for today, Dec. 15th, Gloomsday (the chronological inverse of Bloomsday).

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'Luigi Mangione shoots himself' 'Netanyahu arrested' These are in many ways even worse than the Google Overview AI screwups — Apple's AI is not only making up world news events, it's attributing its headlines to media orgs, eroding trust and accountability. Seems like a disaster.

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Google is so broken. AI has ruined the search engine and made it completely non-functional.

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I am pleased to announce that this year, I got rejected over 100 times! (Please, hold your applause!) Find out how I did it, and how you, too, can succeed at failing constantly: medium.com/publishous/i...

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