becquer.bsky.social
Scholar of Spain at Hopkins • Author of The Op-Ed Novel • Regular contributor at The Nation and elsewhere
Website: https://krieger.jhu.edu/modern-languages-literatures/directory/becquer-seguin/
Book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674260108
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One can only hope that that’s what “viewpoint diversity” actually entails!
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Absolutely cannot wait to visit you all!
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And if you missed her previous piece, here it is for @publicbooks.bsky.social
One novel
One biography
And a meditation on how we deal with the loss of language
www.publicbooks.org/when-languag...
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And while I'm at it, let me put in a plug for my friend @becquer.bsky.social's wonderful book "The Op-Ed Novel," a fascinating exploration of the interplay between journalism and literature in contemporary Spain. It's also part of the HUP sale. Read more here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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www.bretleraul.net/home
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Bret, the translator, is a fantastic scholar of critical university studies. You should check out his work, which is on the 2010s higher ed crisis in Chile.
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I have a number of pieces I'm working on for the new year.
And I also hope to get back into journalism a bit more, especially Spanish-language journalism.
I hope all of you have had the space and time to write this year. Don't be a stranger and please share your own work!
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También publiqué una tribuna en
@ctxt.es sobre el escándalo de la Universidad de Salamanca, que desafortunadamente sigue en pie.
ctxt.es/es/20240501/...
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One of these was at the University of Illinois. And during my visit, @ericcalderwood.bsky.social and I did something super fun, which was interview each other about our books.
You can watch the entire interview on the @harvardpress.bsky.social YouTube page here.
t.co/gO4grI4WEu
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I also gave more than a dozen talks and presentations at universities and bookstores. Thank you to everyone who was able to attend one. I’m truly grateful to you all. It made the experience of publishing a book less lonely and individualistic than I’d anticipated. 🙏
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Next, I was on the @revdem2020.bsky.social podcast with the wonderful @kasiakrzyzan.bsky.social to talk about how novelists participate in the public sphere through nonfiction. It was a great, in depth, interview. Give it a listen.
revdem.ceu.edu/2024/01/16/n...
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I also appeared on a couple of wonderful podcasts to talk about the book. The first, one of my very favorites, was with @eoghangilmartin.bsky.social for the @sobremesapod.bsky.social. We talked a lot about the history of Spain’s paper of record, @elpais.com.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The second was “The Enduring Influence of the Op-Ed” for The Millions. This piece asks why the most important form of opinion journalism is still with us despite its many proclaimed “deaths” at the hand of the internet.
themillions.com/2024/01/the-...
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Alongside the book, I published a couple of companion pieces.
The first one was “Autofiction without the Auto” for @literaryhub.bsky.social, on the writer Javier Cercas.
lithub.com/autofiction-...
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1. The Op-Ed Novel - El País and Contemporary Spanish Literature with @becquer.bsky.social
t.co/ITzrgYya0b
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And www.publicbooks.org/whats-in-a-b... @publicbooks.bsky.social @skimmel.bsky.social @becquer.bsky.social
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Voted for you yesterday!
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Oy vey
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Cercas no es el único, desde luego, en conjugar la actividad literaria con intervenciones como intelectual público, como demuestra Bécquer Seguín (@becquer.bsky.social) con un análisis brillante de esa dinámica en la España postfranquista. Aquí el libro: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...