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lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-... Article on Utopianism/review of last year’s @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social re-release of Angel in the Forest by #margueriteyoung up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 🪽

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Top tier source of “Lo-Fi Beats for Work or Study” @harikunzru.bsky.social @harpers.bsky.social

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Gearing up for a winter side project (ty @contramundumpress.bsky.social for help running these down 😊)

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“We don’t want to be the quaint one who thinks we know everything; we want to actually know everything. To be cute is to be crushed, to fail at the game of intellectual prowess.”

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A(nt)I-Christ

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nearly getting mown down at a crosswalk for the fifth time this week

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Do not cross the picket line!!!

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Seahorse. Trout. Halibut. Poet. Philosopher. Critic.

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Fiction +Theory/Phil. Chopping blocks. Return to old faves + jumping into new fixations on both ends

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Love seeing these trickling out of the archive 🥰

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from @annakornbluh.bsky.social 's Immediacy -- thinking about the shift from meta- to autofiction as a renewal of northrop frye's cyclical literary seasons -- drift away from maximum fragmentation/irony + toward unity/myth as a swing from Frye's winter/satire + toward comedy/spring pairings

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"it has never been easier to mistake the narrator for the author [...] and to imagine that the conceptual gap or space of difference that separates the work of fiction from the world of reality is being closed or challenged by recent shifts toward an “autofictional” mode."

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These sound really, really promising @willbeaman.bsky.social

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@ everyone waiting in the wings of the Huntington Library is officially on notice

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Tut (1931). Charcoal sketch of Lewis's dog. Writing of "our hirsute gremlin", Lewis recalled "this small creature...stood for all that was benevolent in the universe...this fragment of primitive life confided his destiny to [my wife] and went through all the black days beside us"

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Front to back heavy hitters in winter ALH. Can't wait to read.

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In the off-chance you’re interested in affect theory as a materialist theology and/or my book project on feminist an-aesthetics, you’ll find that and much smarter essays (by @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social, @katemarshall.bsky.social, & Thomas Constaninesco) in the pages of American Literary History.

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Four forms of postmodern cynicism:

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I don’t think it will all fit in there.

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this was the first weird medieval guy to ever go viral 🥰🥰

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"[...]these writers themselves often simply recapitulate strategies devised by writers in the previous generation of postmodernists, or, indeed, essentially reiterate an existing form created by an earlier writer." @greenlitcrit.bsky.social www.unbeatenpaths.net/p/repetition...

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Latest update, @brewster.kahle.org: “The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine resumed in a provisional, read-only manner. Sorry, no Save Page Now yet. Safe to resume but might need further maintenance, in which case it will be suspended again. Please be gentle web.archive.org More as it happens.”

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Wildcard edition 1.) Wyndham Lewis 2.) Oscar Wilde 3.) Rachel Cusk 4.) Stanislaw Lem 5.) William Blake

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zachgibson.substack.com/p/019 Reposting an unfinished oldie on political cynicism + postmodernity -- lil bit on vintage (90's) Timothy Bewes :) Tempted to pick this back up and finish it in light of....events

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Since I just took the time to look this up, I thought I would share with others who might be curious. Percival Everett's "James" has spent 19 of the past 30 weeks in the Top 15 for Hardcover Fiction (NYT). It has never risen above #4. It is currently #14. No other NBA short lister is on the list.

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Melons could kill you; so could melancholy. In his new book Eating and Being, the historian of science Steven Shapin analyzes the longest-enduring system of medical and gastronomic thought in European history, dietetics. My review is up at LARB: lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-m...

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@njdames.bsky.social on narration v. discourse in the 18th c. novel...would like to read alongside Jameson's reading of 19th c. realism that drifts more toward juggling narration/affect (and couches its essayistic discourse through characters rather than authorial intrusion)

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The newsletter of @bunkhistory.bsky.social from University of Richmond has two (non-reading) recommendations this week, skeeters.

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Rarity

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Good stuff from Johnathan Kramnick's Criticism and Truth -- goes double for summary as well...as scholarship moves farther and farther from a central canon where critics can no longer assume an audience's familiarity with a given text, well crafted summary/quotation can make or break an article

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Revisiting some old work on agon + #utopia + incompatibility (and #Greimas) after reading Douglas Mao's Inventions of Nemesis

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Not really sure how to get rolling on here -- here's a piece I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social over the summer on #JohnBarth 's woefully misread later career? lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-cl...

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stoked to see Angel in the Forest back in print. (++ i've got a piece on Young's utopianism forthcoming -- keep an eye out for something fun)

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