I wrote this short review of Downtime for ASAP/Review!

asapjournal.com/review/slow-...

I'm on here but infrequently! Glad you liked the review -- Downtime is such a rewarding book to read and reread, my job was very easy.

If you want to read deeply researched accounts of what happened to novels in the last fifty or so years, may I recommend Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier uipress.uiowa.edu/books/novel-...

Volume 77 Issue 2 | Comparative Literature | Duke University Press

check out the entire issue here:
read.dukeupress.edu/comparative-...

Omid and I have been thinking a lot about weird professional trajectories, auteurism, late/early style, the studio system, and genre. So we're proposing a special issue! Send @omidb.bsky.social and me your abstracts:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/03/...

Also me! Big Fiction is a truly wonderful (and somewhat intimidatingly comprehensive) book of the contemp. US novel. Well worth reading.

This is me. I did this.

(Well done to both authors-- really terrific and careful work on the contemporary US novel)

Propaganda, Disinformation, Ideology The image of the “fog of war,” former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara explains in Errol Morris’s 2003 documentary of the same name, suggests that “war is so complex it’s beyond the abil...

New from me in the Drift: on the "fog of war" and the ideological work it performs www.thedriftmag.com/propaganda-d...

You can register here forms.gle/BzMaVVB9TCxs...

(It's not essential to do so, but gives us a sense of numbers for attendance/catering etc)

Program for TGHC Conference, Friday 20th October, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford MA 02155. Register here: https://forms.gle/BzMaVVB9TCxs3SSz5 8:00am WELCOME/BREAKFAST Panel 1 9:00-10:25 Art-Works Panel 2 10:35- 12:00 Forms Of Work/Work of Form 12:00-1:00pm LUNCH 1:00- 2:30 Keynote Hil Malatino Panel 3 2:40- 4:05 Working Bodies 4:05 - 4:30 COFFEE BREAK Panel 4 4:30- 5:55 Anti-Work

Hil Malatino Keynote Lecture: "Bankrolling Enlightenment: Reed Erickson and the Weird History of Trans Philanthropy" Friday 20th October, 1-2:30pm,, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford MA

Some promotion!: The Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference is happening 2 weeks today. It features 4 panels of presentations and a keynote from Hil Malatino.

Free to all, on Tufts' Medford Campus.

22: Realism and Other Romances feat. Grace Lavery - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby and Patrick welcome writer and academic Grace Lavery to discuss her new book Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques. They discuss Grace’s relationship t...

New Ordinary Unhappiness episode! we talk to the brilliant Grace Lavery (@gracelavery.bsky.social) about her new book, "Pleasure and Efficacy," pragmatic political uses of Freud, desire and shame, identity and activism, and the stakes of debates over what it means to be "real”

That shit rocked

The whole gang (3) is about to see Jeanne Dielman for the first time.