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COMMENTS I'm in the files!
The solitary entry in an exhibition comment book
Modern Language Association Call for Papers. TEACHING DYSTOPIA IN DYSTOPIAN TIMES. This roundtable invites papers from educators at all levels who are working with dystopian texts or at restrictive institutions to share pedagogical, political, and interpretive strategies. 200-word abstracts due March 15 by email to alexander.manshel@mcgill.ca Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026
Call for Papers for MLA 2027 in Los Angeles. The session is titled "Literary Studies Beyond the Academy." What forms of literary study, critical inquiry, and bookish identity-making exist beyond university literature departments? How have readers in marginalized communities and the Global South developed para- or even anti-academic institutions of interpretation? 200-word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026
🚨Just 5 MORE DAYS to submit proposals for these guaranteed sessions @modernlanguage.bsky.social in Los Angeles!
(1) TEACHING DYSTOPIA IN DYSTOPIAN TIMES
(2) LITERARY STUDIES BEYOND THE ACADEMY
Please get in touch with any questions + thanks for sharing!
If you only read one bleak account of shit platforms this year, make it this one
BBC Verify confirms that the United States killed 110 young children, in their school, on just the first day of this war. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Another day of intensive researchmaxxing, mogging my academic competitors in pursuit of the elusive rank of ScholarChad (permanent contract)
From this. "fantasy writers talk about Ireland the way straight dudes talk about Japan" is a good line substack.com/home/post/p-...
We have people on here continuously monitoring UK media for any possible instance of an Irish celebrity momentarily being appropriated as British, and meanwhile fantasy writers are running buck wild with their potato/handsome brogue tropes with minimal oversight
The book that made me fall down this whole rabbit hole to begin with was Christopher Buehlman’s The Blacktongue Thief, centring a fiddle-playing, green-eyed, copper-haired thief named Kinch Na Shannack. Kinch is Galtic, meaning he’s from a race of people who drink whiskey, farm tubers, live near peat bogs, and speak with a “handsome brogue” that makes them say “cork and kark almost the same”. His people were forced to mass-migrate west “what with the old Famine”, and if you haven’t guessed which culture the Galts are based on yet, I’ll give you one more clue: Buehlman, an American, self-narrates the entire audiobook in an Irish accent.
Good lord #speirghorm
I am not the person to ask, although the article this is taken from very much implies that they are not
Most importantly: who's excited for the forthcoming Mr Beast novel?!
Probably not dissimilar to Danielle Steel's output, as per @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's work
Remarkable graph here of James Patterson's productivity over time
A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker, 1925-2025; Montreal Stories, Mavis Gallant
Two more books
Obligatory Lennie pic taken in Montréal
The Last of its Kind by Sibylle Grimbert, Vintage Contemporaries by Dan Kois, Genre Bending by Jeremy Rosen, The Rarest Fruit by Gaëlle Bélem
A few books collected in North America
"the body has kept two calendars at once: one written in heat and salt, the other in mist and routine"
This is a really beautiful piece of writing. Alaa Alqaisi on Gaza and Dublin.
From @palfest.bsky.social' s new online magazine The Key.
You'll also receive a copy of 'Inventory', in which the editor reflects on two decades of small press publishing
This law to increase rents has had the completely foreseen side effect of also increasing evictions (so the landlords can put up rents).
www.thejournal.ie/your-stories...
THE NATIONAL TELEPATHY by Rogue Larraquy, translated by Frank Wynne (Charco, 2024)
This novel asks: what if, in 1930s Argentina, there was a weird sloth that facilitated telepathy? thereby unloosing a manic grotesque fever dream of colonisation and power and state surveillance? It's good stuff.
Translated by @terribleman.com
I'm excited to be in Montréal for the first time, taking part in this ACLA panel on 'Literary Translation and its Institutions'!
I'll be speaking about translation and contemporary Irish publishing
www.acla.org/conference/s...
The long 2010s are finally over
PLASTIC by @matthew-rice.bsky.social is a beautiful book-length night-shift work about work, life, poetry, machines, humans
love when there's an article about how life is sustainable in the superheated waters surrounding a hydrothermal volcanic fissure on the ocean floor and then like six paragraphs in you find out the author's parents are chemosynthetic bacteria 🙄
on the mic, he's a freeholder known to lift an ox over each shoulder ahem... wheat sower and a wif stroker can't plant the crops if it gets one degree colder *woman's voice says "Villein"* his work is agricultural everything he makes, the lords tax it multiple
Listening to a lot of Doom this week, reminded of one of the last truly great tweets I read
I appreciate chapter summaries, but there's rarely any need for them not to be very concise 🙂 Looking forward to hearing more about this book!
Feels a bit glib to sum this up with a "we're cooked," but - I can't see how the centre continues to hold here!
A house on our road recently sold for 70k more than what we paid in 2021. Judging from the photos, it's obviously in worse condition than ours was
RIP. I loved IN THE DUTCH MOUNTAINS - never figured out whether this great quotation from Diderot is real or invented
