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Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. Reposts are jokes I wish I'd made first. Stephanieinsleyhershinow.com
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A funny thing that happened is that my 7yo came home excited to tell me the plot of Robinson Crusoe.

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@annasplat.bsky.social I assume everyone’s sending you this, but just in case!

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

There’s still time to join the Clarissa-in-real-time Substack! Introductions today. Lurkers welcome. #clarissa2025 open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...

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We are pleased to announce this year's new titles, stunning covers by Jaya Nicely, AND the 2025 S&T Classics YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION! 🎉 Six newly revisited classics in conversation sent straight to your doorstep all year: spring, summer, fall. Only at unnamedpress.com

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Dear Reader, We invite you, with kind affection and verve, to read Samuel Richardson’s novel Clarissa with us in real time. Make haste to our substack for more!! substack.com/@clarissa202... Your ever-affectionate and faithful, @sinsleyh.bsky.social, @imcullin.bsky.social, and Koyuki Smith

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

My wonderful grad students have made a Substack and an ambitious meeting/posting schedule for #clarissa2025. Read with us or lurk like a louche rake in the corner. Follow @clarissa2025.bsky.social and subscribe here. open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

the grave-digger in the play sings, spade in hand. Dost thou never?

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

This June at the American Antiquarian Society: “Sex, Gender, and Print”: The 2025 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, taught by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Alexander Stein. Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars. Link in comments.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

@dhersh.bsky.social is reading Clarissa for the first time (!) and keeps stopping to read it out loud to me. #clarissa2025

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Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

submitted 35 days ago • 252 comments

BOURDAIN: so ive had joints of mutton everywhere. exeter, wroexeter, berwick. Ive never seen a joint of mutton prepared like this MEDIEVAL SPIT-BOY: we roaste thee meat under a pafte which keeps the juices, and renders the meat moft tendere BOURDAIN: *chuckling* wow

submitted 36 days ago • 22 comments

Looking at Woolf’s notes from reading Clarissa. #clarissa2025

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

This is fantastic AND let’s give lots of that vacant office space to CUNY.

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

You’re telling me this life crisis is mid?

submitted 43 days ago • 65 comments

More delightful #MLA25 author appearances: @kathylubey.bsky.social with her book What Pornography Knows #MLA2025

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What is it I plan to do with my one wild and precious life? Read Clarissa again. ✉️

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

If you forgot to start reading Clarissa (😂), there will be plenty of time to catch up. But don’t skip Richardson’s preface. He changed it a lot across the editions but all versions are keen to manage reader expectations from the drop. He wants to control our reading of the characters and lessons.

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

Time to start reading #clarissa! ✉️ 📖

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

In two hours!

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Join me and @brandyjensen.bsky.social as we talk about whether classic books should be dumbed down so that people can read them. (And @sandtclassics.bsky.social The Country of the Pointed Firs.) Take an MLA break. This Thursday, 6pm, Octavia Books, NO, LA. www.unnamedpress.com/events/point...

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I've been wanting to read Clarissa so now seems as good a time as any....

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment