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wrote an essay about writing in english, my first for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...

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“A shocking criminality and the diffusion of traditional Mexican images in the stream of global entertainment have erased any trace of a ‘special relationship’ between the national culture and death.” From the archive:

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People in the tri-state area! On Tuesday at 5pm, I’ll be speaking at Yale about my book, “The Op-Ed Novel.” We will also talk about journalism as an object of study and praxis. If you are in the area and have time, please join us!

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Come over if you are in the area!

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Tomorrow, I’ll be speaking about my book at the Five Colleges in western Mass. If you’re in the area and have some time, please join us. I’ll be talking about journalism, literature, and the politics of fictionalizing current affairs.

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More from the latest “On Our Nightstands”: @becquer.bsky.social suggests “Canoes” by Maylis de Kerangal, trans. Jessica Moore. “Alaska haunts the collection’s metaphorical title as well as de Kerangal’s insatiable inquiry into the role of place in North America.”

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TRIBUNA | Cuando la IA comenzó a devorar a la universidad desde dentro 📄 "Me pregunto qué hacer para salvar la educación y la democracia mientras los veranos cada vez son más tórridos y el capitalismo parece devorar a sus hijos." ✍🏼 Escribe Ana Luengo. ctxt.es/es/20250301/...

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These get confused with one another. Journalism is a social practice: reporting the news. The Media is the attention business. The product is audiences. The Press is an institution that endures over time as people come in and out. The news industry is a seller of information with recency value.

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Looking forward to @becquer.bsky.social's visit in a month.

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Please note that the new deadline for submission to our Hispanic issue (edited by @becquer.bsky.social) is May 1

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Another beautiful essay by Charlotte Rogers on language and aphasia, this time at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. Absolutely cannot wait for the memoir.

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If you are an early career humanist or humanistically oriented social scientist and are looking for a six-month fellowship, I strongly recommend the @kwi-essen.bsky.social. A great research experience and environment. Truly. Deadline: 28 February 2025 www.kulturwissenschaften.de/calls-fellow...

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"Las mujeres columnistas formaban una minoría sustancial...La mayoría de estas mujeres llegó al columnismo, al igual que Grandes, desde la literatura. El resultado fue una aglutinación extraordinaria de talento inigualable por otras revistas y otros periódicos de la época"

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"Eludía los debates sobre lo que Nietzsche llamaba la Gran Política y se centraba en... la política con p minúscula." Este sábado me estreno en @elpais.com con un ensayo sobre Almudena Grandes y la mujer columnista desde la transición. elpais.com/babelia/2025...

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Este texto de @becquer.bsky.social es muy bonito porque nos regresa al tiempo de un columnismo literario posible, menos histriónico y capaz de una mirada al pasado más plural

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elpais.com/babelia/2025... @becquer.bsky.social

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Qué interesante, me dice un amigo que no puedo colgar esto en otra red muy conocida, por qué será. Yo creo que esta conversación es extremadamente urgente ahora, así que comentad y compartid 💪 @ctxt.es @sebasfaber.bsky.social @becquer.bsky.social @lmcabrera.bsky.social @antoniocordoba.bsky.social

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please also follow our ultra-smart and very likeable current and former fellows: go.bsky.app/U1wgZkJ

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Today at @publicbooks.bsky.social, Charlotte Rogers has an amazing essay up on aphasia (a disorder that affects one's ability to communicate), Carlos Fonseca's "Austral" @fsgbooks.bsky.social & James Marcus's bio of Emerson @princetonupress.bsky.social. www.publicbooks.org/when-languag...

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Do you want to know what I have in common with Dickinson, Kafka, and Proust? Visit this wonderful @harvardpress.bsky.social website and find out! Hint: #MLA25 Also ➡️ @ericcalderwood.bsky.social @briankgoodman.bsky.social @thesaramarcus.bsky.social @ksgruesz.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/mla

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#mla2025 attendees and friends following from home: @harvardpress.bsky.social is having a sale! Use promo code for MLA25 to get 40% off select HUP titles. Might I humbly/shamelessly suggest my book, "On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus"?

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A uno a veces le dan ganas de explotar de rabia ante el genocidio israelí. Aquí Thomas Meaney sostiene cualquier atisbo de rabia y cualquier juicio para ofrecer una lista de hechos descarnados sobre la dominación y la violencia con que Israel controla la esfera pública alemana y destruye Gaza.

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Finally got around to reading Thomas Meaney’s latest, this time for @newleftreview.bsky.social. Delivered in pitch perfect deadpan with no editorializing, it is equal parts funny, infuriating, depressing, and perplexing. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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I published several things this year that I’d love for you to check out, if you’re so inclined. The most important of these was my first book, “The Op-Ed Novel” (@harvardpress.bsky.social). Officially, it’s an academic book, but it’s really much more than that. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

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La lectura schmittiana de legitimidad y legalidad que hace aquí @alexalonsonogueira.bsky.social y también de porqué el PSOE todavía confunde los dos mientras que la derecha se aprovecha, sigue siendo relevante. Lawfare + culture war = right wing populism www.sinpermiso.info/textos/en-un...

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I chose Layla Martínez’s “Woodworm” @twolinespress.bsky.social/@amordemadreed.bsky.social) as my @publicbooks.bsky.social Public Pick for this year. It is equal parts surgical and mesmerizing, unsettling and unforgettable. You can see all our picks here. Enjoy! www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...

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So UNC Chapel Hill can hire Bill Belichick for $30 million but humanities courses at UNC Asheville and UNC Greensboro cost too much money 🤔

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Today at @johnshopkins.bsky.social, @bibliophilenick.bsky.social will be presenting his fantastic new book, “Cervantine Blackness” (@psupress.bsky.social). Join us! Warning: intellectual fireworks to be expected.

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El ingreso de Javier Cercas a la vetusta RAE quizá sea un buen momento para considerar su lugar en la literatura y esfera pública españolas y cómo supo aprovechar la tensión y la solapa entre esas dos áreas. Va un minihilo. 1/12

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