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This is very cool!

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my default response to books about the practice and state of western literary criticism is irritability and dismissiveness. the patience and thoughtfulness with which @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social approaches these books is a good lesson for me in how not to be such a grouch

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If you are looking for a place to productively put some of your Ukraine-related rage and sorrow, you might contribute some funds to this organization doing life-saving work. Every little bit helps! chuffed.org/project/1187...

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For the low low price of $495, you can learn… (I feel compelled to document this grifting for some reason)

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Can literary criticism survive our influencer-driven culture? Our essay of the week calls for rejecting "academic vs. creative" or "literary vs. pop" to reimagine criticism as art, craft, and social conversation. By @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social in @thepointmag.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4bgVlD6

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Cannot stop thinking about the emoji choice in this random homophobic stranger’s comment

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Started writing this post about The Perfect Nine a month ago, and then life happened, so I guess it’ll just be a half-written post now. kasiareads.com/2025/02/24/t...

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I’ve got a new essay in @thepointmag.bsky.social reviewing books by Michael Chaouli, Jonathan Kramnick, and Lauren Oyler, and talking about what I love about (reading about) literary criticism, and how I do not love The Discourse. thepointmag.com/criticism/a-...

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This is very good. Clear and succinct.

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This is terrible news. 🧪 "The Museum of the Earth, one of the last natural history museums in Upstate New York, faces an imminent threat of foreclosure after a group of donors failed to fulfill a $30 million pledge..." @judylucas.bsky.social ithacavoice.org/2025/01/muse...

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I wrote about Porcelain War, which is an incredible film about artists in Ukraine that everyone should see. kasiareads.com/2025/01/13/p...

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In an essay on WWB, Nathan H. Dize reimagines the genre of translator’s notes to recall how how life and translation have rhymed during his own career, often in wrenching ways. Read it at the link: https://buff.ly/3PtVWHt

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What is the verb form of mmm-hmm? Like, he mmm-hmmed in response. Is there a word for this?

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Wrote about Held, by Anne Michaels. Uneven but very beautiful. kasiareads.com/2025/01/09/h...

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My Best of 2024 roundup: kasiareads.com/2024/12/31/b...

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Wrote about Feeding Ghosts, by Tessa Hulls — a fantastic debut graphic memoir. kasiareads.com/2024/12/30/f...

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Wrote a little about Téa Obreht’s Morningside. kasiareads.com/2024/12/27/t...

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Wrote a little about Elizabeth O’Connor’s Whale Fall, which I thought was terrific. kasiareads.com/2024/12/25/w...

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Wrote a little about Emily Bloom’s wonderful motherhood memoir. kasiareads.com/2024/12/22/i...

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Wouldn’t it be great if you could just say, Listen, my partner isn’t willing to listen to me complain about this any more so I’m going to need you to make some changes to your behavior

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Wrote a little bit about Bryan Washington’s Family Meal — a slow burn, but really comes together so beautifully at the end. kasiareads.com/2024/12/12/f...

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Are we manifesting New Year’s wishes yet? I want to be a prize judge. Ideally Booker International but I’m not picky.

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Wrote a little about the new Sally Rooney, which I think is probably her best one yet. kasiareads.com/2024/12/10/i...

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RIP, Nikki Giovanni. She put it so well in a poem on the passing of Gwendolyn Brooks: one great woman moving to the next phase, and us on the ground giving Alleluias. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90181/...

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Tried to write a little about Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House and realized that I have very complicated feelings about Tom Hanks 🤷🏻‍♀️ kasiareads.com/2024/12/06/t...

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Day 1 #AdventOfSystemSeeing Draw a Bicycle 1. Draw a Bubble Diagram of a Bicycle. Use labelled bubbles (circles) to express the key concepts of a bicycle; use placement and size to convey relationships. 2. Now draw a bicycle. 3. What do we notice?

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Wrote a little about The Three-Body Problem, which is a fairly terrifying book. kasiareads.com/2024/12/01/t...

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Wrote a little bit about Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail. It’s intense. kasiareads.com/2024/11/20/m...

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A cool thing about being an adult is that you finally really know and understand yourself well enough to recognize that you definitely need a sticker chart to reinforce positive behaviors like going to the gym.

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Not sure why I suddenly have a bunch of new followers (Twitter exodus?) but I often forget to post on here. I’ll try to do it more often maybe but in the meantime perhaps you’d like to subscribe to my blog instead 😊 kasiareads.com/blog/

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I wrote about Reading the Room, by Paul Yamazaki, a real gem of a book. Reading it is like listening in on a really good conversation, but you also learn so much — about the literary ecosystem and 20th-century American life especially. I loved it. kasiareads.com/2024/04/17/r...

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Extremely niche but: my partner recently went to the big screen showing of RAD so now he and my 6yo are obsessed with the song Send Me an Angel by Real Life, and I am obsessed by wondering if My Lover’s Box by Garbage is referencing it. It’s got to be, right??

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I think I will never understand what people mean by “the death of the novel.” I just can’t make it make sense.

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And also, 18th c (and adjacent) folks: propose to this guaranteed panel on Trans Studies Approaches at #MLA2025. Circulate widely!

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