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Oh you’re looking for a film about the urgency of life and the power an individual bureaucrat has to cut through planned obsolescence and effect change for the public good?

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[clearing throat]

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Not watching. Just reading some Auerbach today

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As promised/threatened, I wrote about the MLA, the blocked resolution, parallels w/ AHA, Qs of procedure and "fiduciary" review, the bounty of letters from and actions by concerned members, and the need for solidarity now--incl b/w scholars & publishers. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/01/resi...

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Rereading <Reading for the Plot> by Peter Brooks. Wow, what a banger

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Oh! Whoever’s writing about power tools and publishing, here you go

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CEO has setback in eliminating workers AND customers

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DH folks, anyone heard of or used Net Create? Collaborative networking while reading long literary texts- it looks perfect for what I’ve been trying to implement in my intro to DH class. (Not sure students will love the command line install but the interface looks killer) netcreate.org

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What is a movie you love from 1992? The only movie question I’ve ever been 100% certain of

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8 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 5: The Victorian novel is an English novel. To find out what's NOT true, read Sierra Eckert in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

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9 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 4: The bound commercial novel is a Victorian phenomenon. To find out what's NOT true, read Lindsey Eckert in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

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10 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 3: The author is a solitary creator. To find out what's NOT true, read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , @sdileonardi.bsky.social + @beccacohen.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034

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Attn, attn: The very special issue of Studies in the Novel Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Toward a Shared History of the Novel is OUT! so lovely to co-edit w @megaplex.bsky.social and big thanks to @noragilbert.bsky.social & Tim Boswell @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

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Has anyone done a roundup of fav literary criticism of 2024? Extra points for public-facing, shorter pieces (and yes, I’m asking bc I’m teaching our majors capstone course this spring)

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Go Set a Watchman but for Its a Wonderful Life Who is George Bailey at 75?

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Great list and aesthetic observation! How about Ursula eating shrimp in the Little Mermaid

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Y’all, Colson Whitehead just reskeeted Richard Jean So’s NYT article in a thread dunking on Joyce Carol Oates. Love this place @richardjeanso.bsky.social

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If Stephen King is a brand name, what’s the diff bw him and more recent authors who embrace self-branding? It was more difficult to answer this than I first thought It was a pleasure getting here with my coauthors (& the ed.s & Post45 2023 crew). Please read and let us know what you think

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With @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, I wrote a shortish essay on The Girl on the Train and how self-branding is changing authorship. For a fascinating special issue of Studies in the Novel ed by @megaplex.bsky.social and @sarahdallison.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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F this. If they’re going to throw open the window and say boy what day is this they need their night of terror.

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Ice?

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I’m currently writing a chapter that makes too much out of the small coincidence that in 1948 Patricia Highsmith and Flannery O’Connor overlapped for six months at Yaddo, the elite northeastern artists’ colony. Wanna guess what they thought of each other?

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Post the last sentence of your last article OUT THIS MONTH! w @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @beccacohen.bsky.social The convergence of these two developments-Web 2.0 and globalized conglomerate publishing-with all their extra-literary ramifications, has transformed the author [into a brand manager].

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Does anyone know what an article from 1977 on the German publishing industry is referring to in this sentence? “And then there was the 1968 revolt against publishers”

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Whenever I read Jameson, his writing worms its way into everything I write. Which is great for the article I’m working on but my emails!

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More like ShatGPT

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Reaction shots of me reading: 😦😯😲😵‍💫🫡

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The Moore swamp things are some of the best comics ever written. I’m honestly surprised they weren’t a bigger focus when posthumanism blew up. There’s a moment when swamp thing realizes he isn’t the extension of his human consciousness in plant form but a veggie simulacrum w no tie to the original

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My review essay "Crisis in the Profession, or the Failure to Imagine the New"on recent books by Bruce Robbins, Jonathan Kramnick, and John Guillory is out in ALH! Also discusses Robbins and Guillory's treatment of Rita Felski. Free link: tinyurl.com/mryk9bva .

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