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Ph.D. candidate at Brown | Assistant Editor at NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction

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This might be a transatlantic division in cultural norms, but since this dropped yesterday three different AI boosters have emailed me invitations to read their rebuttals on LinkedIn.

Yeah. No.

11.03.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

getting better and better.

27.02.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The jumping girl Exploring memory and connection – and discovering the true power of fiction – with literary great Gerald Murnane

Beautiful piece on writing and relation by Indigo Perry

www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/a...

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Evelyn Araluen wins $125,000 for β€˜politically uncompromising’ poetry at Victorian premier’s literary awards Poet’s second collection The Rot won the Victorian prize for literature and the Indigenous writing category

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

26.02.2026 13:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The bristling wit and melancholy of Cees Nooteboom came to me when I needed it most | Madeleine Thien The great Dutch travel writer, who died this week, found history inscribed in every place he visited, all while remaining accountable to the present

Fair to say Rituals changed my life when I was 20. RIP

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

15.02.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Appreciate this. I was wondering whether there is a command with this tool to pipe it or if you need shell

10.02.2026 22:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

may have missed this, but is there a way to open the file externally. can we use a terminal text editor?

10.02.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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What if? A response to Walter Benn Michaels What if Michaels, in some small part of himself and irrespective of what he maintains on the page, believes that this forty-year scholarly project might equally have been pursued not in the directi…

From NOVEL's own, Tim Bewes, over at nonsite.

nonsite.org/what-if-a-re...

06.02.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
1 hour of chill aphex twin songs (432hz)
1 hour of chill aphex twin songs (432hz) YouTube video by d

check out collected ambient works vols 1 and 2; remixes for cash; richard d james; drukqsβ€”or just start with sthing like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGwU...

29.01.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Out now in NOVEL 58.2.

14.01.2026 08:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Out now in NOV 58.2!

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More from NOVEL 58.2. Brian Reinken discusses the implications of the fossil hunt in fiction.

12.01.2026 10:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Let no one ignorant of Division 1 College Football Enter Here!"

07.01.2026 12:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Welch on Conrad, NgΕ©gΔ©, and the Global Historical Novel.

07.01.2026 11:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Out over on @dukepress.bsky.social

06.01.2026 08:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Novel 58.2 is now live!

05.01.2026 09:26 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

From the new issue of MFS: Jack Quirk's "Gerald Murnane’s Terra Nullius" is free to read, #S2O #OpenAccess at @projectmuse.bsky.social! What are you waiting for?

muse.jhu.edu/article/977805

16.12.2025 14:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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European Journal of English Studies The Place of Race in Law & Literature; Guest Editors: Andrew Bricker, Cedric Essi and Elise Wang. Volume 29, Issue 1 of European Journal of English Studies

just out: The Place of Race in Law & Literature; Guest Editors: Andrew Bricker, Cedric Essi & @elisewang.bsky.social : www.tandfonline.com/toc/neje20/2... w essays by Almas Khan, Emma Brush, @jackquirk.bsky.social, Faith Barter, more! @lpcprof.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social

15.12.2025 21:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My latest piece "Gerald Murnane's Terra Nullius" has just been published in MFS' latest issue. Thanks to @moniquerooney.bsky.social, @tynedaile.bsky.social and those at CALC for letting me present an earlier version of this piece. Check it out over here: muse.jhu.edu/article/977805

15.12.2025 17:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks, SImon!

15.12.2025 17:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Nuevas Poligrafias Numero 12

Nuevas Poligrafias Numero 12

proofs! HACIA LA NOVELA CRITICA

the first Spanish translation of a big piece, coming soon, thanks to the careful smarts of @pavelandrade.bsky.social !

19.11.2025 19:31 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Gerald Murnane's Terra Nullius
Gerald Murnane's Terra Nullius YouTube video by Arts & Social Sciences at ANU

Apropos of nothing whatsoever, I'm posting my talk from last month on "Gerald Murnane's Terra Nullius." Thanks very much to ANU Center for Australian Literary Cultures (@calc-anu.bsky.social, @moniquerooney.bsky.social, @tynedaile.bsky.social) for having me!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKFw...

08.10.2025 16:51 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There are more fictional Australian Country Towns With A Secret than there are actual living Australians.

21.09.2025 11:42 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fosse translates Murnane's The Plains.

10.09.2025 21:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ep. 25 Meanjin Streets ft. Eli McLean on the untimely murder of Meanjin

"I don't believe for one second that Meanjin's financial solvency was the reason for the shutdown". Meanjin's ex-deputy editor speaks about the demise of the journal on The Battler podcast (interview starts around the 55-minute mark). thebattler.substack.com/p/ep-25-mean...

10.09.2025 09:49 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looking for a place to start with Murnane's work? You could do worse than LANDSCAPE WITH LANDSCAPE. Phenomenal work. Each chapter is authored by the narrator of the previous. The entire work folds in on itself.
www.andotherstories.org/landscape-wi...

02.09.2025 17:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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One of my many TBR projects. Three mystery novels written in Nigerian pidgin by Adaora Lily Ulasi and published by Fontana in the 1970s. I'm intrigued because Ulasi 's work seems to have been completely forgotten.

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The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...

Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!

18.08.2025 14:19 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

thank you for the helpful revisions!

18.08.2025 17:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Colour bar forms in Sam Selvon’s Windrush novels In this essay I discuss two novels by Trinidadian Sam Selvon – The Lonely Londoners (1956) and The Housing Lark (1965) – which together I call Selvon’s Windrush novels on account of their shared co...

For those interested in Sam Selvon, I've just published a piece in EJES for a special issue on "The Place of Race in Law and Literature," edited by @elisewang.bsky.social, Andrew Bricker, and Cedric Essi. Check it out over here: doi.org/10.1080/1382...

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