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For Chronicle Review I reviewed Jennifer Doyle's excellent book, a sort of nonfiction novel about how harassment changes one's relationship to research, teaching, & writing. Also discussed: Douglas Crimp, Eve Sedgwick, Title IX, Marxist feminism, Freud. chronicle.com/article/how-cl…

this dissolve from written on the wind tho

"Public scholarship claims authority through credentials: 'Historian here!' Criticism, by contrast, claims authority through style." Mitch Therieau on Greil Marcus in Chronicle Review chronicle.com/article/advent…

Reading faulkner this shit is fucking wild

Fredric Jameson has passed--what an unmatched American intellectual presence for the last 50 (at least) years. "Marxism and Form" is his best book, imho, but my favorite line of his comes from "Brecht and Method": "History puts its worst foot forward." Rest in Power, Fred.

not a lot of people know that "Sally Rooney: Intermezzo" is an anagram of "merely a nine złoty's orzo". 9 złoty is about £1.50, which from Morrisons gets you 500g of orzo - just 60g less than the weight of *Intermezzo* in hardback. a fun "easter egg" from faber and faber

There were no new ways to understand the world, only new days to set our understanding against.

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The literary world, the most repellent of all worlds.

I am so proud and excited to finally be able to share something that’s been in the works for months. Introducing…MID THEORY COLLECTIVE: a space by and for early career scholars in the humanities to think, learn, read, and write together: mid-theory.com

Joe Brainard

Out now in The Chronicle of Higher Education is my article on losing my job at MacMurray and the aftermath. Here’s “Life as a Disposable Academic,” that I’m sure many academics can relate to chronicle.com/article/life-a…

Incredible things are happening in the world of love

I hope lots of people read and consider this The Chronicle of Higher Education Chronicle Review essay by Jamie Bolker chronicle.com/article/life-a…

A brief elegy. I am deeply grateful to Niall Campbell not only for giving it a home in the autumn issue of Poetry London, but, more importantly, for inspiring me see it through. Subscribe: poetrylondon.co.uk/subscriptions/

just learned about recency bias and its my favorite thing ever

the first supermarket meal deal was offered by Safeways in 1994. today I learnt that, bafflingly, the person they chose to promote it was Olga Rudge, partner of the late Ezra Pound. This was the Tube ad

deleting my mental health to focus on social media

René Magritte, The End of the World

“It must be hard to be March, one of those adolescent months people patiently wait for the year to outgrow.” (line from James Schuyler's diary, March 10, 1971)