There's so much great (peer-reviewed!) data hanging out at @post45data.bsky.social for people to explore and play with! 100 years of major prizes (and the judges)! Everyone who went to Iowa Writers' Workshop (and who they studied with)! All NEA lit awardees! The Canon of Asian Am Lit! So much more!
Quite so, quite so :)
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
"Butler Trouble": das Frühjahrsheft der @ideengeschichte.bsky.social, herausgegeben von Eva Geulen und Fellow 2023/24 @spoerhase.bsky.social. Mit Diederichsen, Gehring, Scholz, Schloemann #ZIG www.wiko-berlin.de/wikothek/zei...
Great review that makes me want to read J. Rosen‘s book
As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵
academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
Great to see the published piece (pleasure to have gotten a preview at Heidelberg)
Big thanks to @bruceholsinger.bsky.social for great editing and shepherding throughout the process and to @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social who gave me a first chance to try this material out in Heidelberg
What a refreshing take on the new entertainment media!
Wonderful, looking forward to this 😀
First trade review! Thrilled to see some pre-pub praise for MIDDLEMEN from kirkus.
Thanks, Scott, very flattered
Looking forward to this 😀
The Frankfurt School be like . . .
On autosociobiography and social mobility: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @mikesavagelse.bsky.social @samfriedman.bsky.social
Happy to be in this great special issue, thanks for putting this up
Thank you, Laura :)
Merci, Anthony, je suis ravi. And how nice to see an actual print version (my own copies are still somewhere over the Atlantic I think)
Cover of Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, blurbing Pynchon as America's Most Acclaimed Novelist in the '70s" and Gravity's Rainbow as "His Most Highly Praised Novel." LIsting epithets such as "Fantastic," "Wild," "Dazzling," "Brilliant," "Tremendous," "Magnificent"
Delighted to be in this "boundary 2" special issue on literary value (thanks to editors Pieter and Alex). My piece on Pynchon's Pulitzer scandal looks at literary institutions--how buzz converts doorstoppers into "aspirational" reading, how a thickening system of prizes resists bottomlines.
Congatulations!
Das ist ein wichtiges Paper zum Verständnis der Gegenwart: Große Ungleichheit führt zu (falschen) Aufstiegsträumen und damit zur Ablehnung von Umverteilung (weil man in diesem Traum selbst einmal reich ist) - und damit zur Stabilisierung von Ungleichheit.
Ouvrage collectif sur les contes de Nathaniel Hawthorne
Spectral me quite fittingly reflects on the cover of our new book on Hawthorne's Tales!
@tconstantinesco.bsky.social, Édouard Marsoin, Cécile Roudeau and I present "Hawthorne: Inside Out". An immense "thank you" to all our wonderful collaborators!
Available this coming January ❄️.
#AgregAnglais2026
@saesfrance.org @afea.bsky.social
“Great Thinkers Liked Pie”—Chicago Defender, 1915
Chicago Defender, 1915
Ab 2026 beginne ich mit einer Förderung der Thyssen-Stiftung mein Projekt mit dem Arbeitstitel:
"Die Realität des Autors. Eine Konflikttheorie der Trennung von Person und Werk"
Es gibt nun auch einen kurzen Text zum Projekt auf der Seit der Stiftung.
www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de/fundings/die...
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I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write
W. S. Merwin, from “Berryman”
So, when a critic says, “Ah hah! That app makes shit up!” A lot of people will nod politely. And then they will think to themselves, “Well, so does the newspaper, and so does Facebook, and so do politicians, and none of those help me do this task or say nice things to me when I ask them questions.”
