"[A]n intriguing study of the anarchic literary environment from which celebrity authors bloomed."
@TheTLS reviews THE RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP, by Sarah Danielle Allison. tinyurl.com/htv44f84 @sarahdallison.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Rotting ship timbers at low tide on marshes North Kent coast
In the Great Expectations country last Sunday, how’s this for a Dickensian scene @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
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My watch says today's temp range is 47 degrees to 74 degrees. This is three seasons for New Orleanians and "shorts weather" for midwesterners.
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reviewed great collection on writers & new media in the 19C print culture sublime! ed and intro by alexis easley w essays by @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social & more!
in Review 19 --
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A timely roundtable at #NAVSA2025: "Victorianist Work After the University as We Knew It." A great conversation with Sarah Allison, Gordon Bigelow, Ruth McAdams, Rachel Sagner Buurma, & Kyoko Takanashi.
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Broad St underpass is the only reported road closure so far.
All you cities new to flash flooding - this is my pay attention to Louisiana pitch. New Orleans' community-sourced real-time flooding map.
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Cover image of Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland edited by Renee Fox and Mary L. Mullen
The first look at a book cover is always so exciting (w/ @cookiegoth.bsky.social)
New review up on Review 19--Ruth McAdams on Lindsey N. Chappell's Temporal Forms and the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean: Writing British Heritage in Ancient Lands: www.review19.org/index.php
I have for several years been obsessed with so-called PKM tools -- it's what I play with instead of Being Productive -- and I think I've finally found an actual long-term winner with the db version of logseq (which is still not formally released).
So there's hope?
Are you the only human being who remains uncorrupted when given power? Consider moderating a panel!
Ben Franklin:
the saja boys were goblins the whole time!!
as the poet has it: you're my soda pop
my little soda pop
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Re-posting for no reason: New Orleans has recorded fewer murders through August this year than any year since 1970 (includes Jan 1).
The grey stone walls, the broken country, the meagre trees, seemed to be telling him afresh the story of that painful past which he knew so well by heart. But no story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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