Markwayne's real name is Samueltclemyns
06.03.2026 18:23
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Markwayne's real name is Samueltclemyns
I am entirely guessing, but I think their thought was maybe that S&T series is pitching classic authors to the book club crowd: nice covers, appealing format, conversational afterwords. The Poe-Longfellow war is a fun glimpse into 19th-c marketplace as messy in ways that mirror current author spats?
literary+cultural studies friends working in grad programs! does your program offer a required introductory seminar for new students? teaching ours again, eager for suggestions of themes, readings +assignments for theory foundations+cohort-cohering. (some past versions in thread below in return)
I'm ok with this as long as she honors von Stroheim's vision (makes it 9+ hours long)
A tooth and a heart candy captioned “our luv is dangerous”
everything reminds me of him (McTeague from MCTEAGUE [1899])
that’s certainly why I read it now.
American literature was doomed. It could not rival British fiction's evocation of deep history and rich social milieu. And then Hawthorne had a stunning realization that would change US fiction forever: The Puritans were weird, they were utopians, and they were horny.
It's here! I hosted a symposium on close reading at Emory in November. Matt Seybold recorded it for his podcast, American Vandal, and the first of three episodes is out today. Catch me, @johannawinant.bsky.social, @becimay.bsky.social, @bakaari.bsky.social + more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
I have been quite pleased with his sous vide recipes for ribs and brisket: www.seriouseats.com/sous-vide-po...
that’s right sports fans it’s time to fire up my famous “game day” sous vide ribs! They will be ready in ~36h
Of course!
Very moved by this nuanced and thoughtful review of WRITING AGAINST REFORM by @natewolff.bsky.social
(free to read in English at: journals.openedition.org/transatlanti... )
"this critique (of sentimentalism) needed an extra dash of dialectics."
💙💙💙How can you not love this scholar?💙💙💙
My review of @zibrak.bsky.social 's WRITING AGAINST REFORM is up at Transatlantica (revue le plus chic! 🇫🇷)! An honor to think with a book this smart, which taught me a lot and pushed me to articulate some—I hope!—productive tensions or disagreements: journals.openedition.org/transatlanti...
getting permissions to include a meme in a scholarly article is like
it is always a damp, drizzly Month of Dick in my soul
My 2026 resolution is to take things more personally. I learned this by reading Moby-Dick.
(but I should say that, while I want to take credit for this, fidelity to the naturalist novel demands that we place the blame for a desire to read McTeague on our own atavistic impulses)
Honored to play a part in your McTeague journey 🦷🥲
I'm 30 pages from the end of MCTEAGUE and I've never been so stressed in my fucking life
As I said on the other app, so again here: Thank you, friend, for this encouraging blurb, and let us hope the book lives up to your high praise! #grateful
Cover of REALISM AFTER THE INDIVIDUAL by Rafael Walker
"In Realism after the Individual, Walker offers an original and forceful reading of 'second generation' realists. For Walker, these authors approach realism as a flexible genre rife with unexpected potential for contesting an ideology of individualism that had come to seem ill-suited for a new age of incorporation and association. Transatlantic in its conceptual framing and invaluable for both teaching and research on these periods, this elegantly argued and necessary book will have wide appeal." NATHAN WOLFF, Tufts University
Honored to blurb @rafaelwalker.bsky.social ‘s brilliant and gorgeous new book — alongside the incomparable Jen Fleissner no less!
Really not looking forward to difficult convos with the family over Thanksgiving. Sorry grandpa, whales are fish!
The MA Antisemitism Commission has approved its final report conflating Judaism with Zionism.
We respond: "The Commission has done more to fuel rising authoritarianism and antisemitism than to create the conditions that promote Jewish safety"
www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/commission-s...
I do not have a riverboat license. Still.
But this paper was really good.
The parallel parking test is a nightmare when the river's low
In which I give @mattseybold.bsky.social a pop quiz for his river boat license AND deal with a rude heckler, my nemesis @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, while talking about Twain's Puddn’head Wilson via Malm's Fossil Capital.
American Studies and a variety of other programs under under threat at the University of Nottingham. Lend your voice to the petition.
Help save American Studies at the University of Nottingham:
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me when I see your aurora borealis pics