Hey friends -
Who's been doing non-traditional humanities dissertations in the past ~5 years?
Tons of fabulous resources from ~2021 and before, but wondering what cool people have been doing lately. References? Links? Exploring new options for our department.
Sharing some professional news: In a few months, I’ll be joining @pomonacollege.bsky.social as an Assistant Prof of English and the Director of College Writing. My plan is to continue blinking in disbelief for the foreseeable future
Fascinating stuff from @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social: 'Like public spheres of the past, Substack has created its own proletarianized counter-public: under-employed writers.'
Thinking about a PMLA "Changing Profession" cluster on "On (Not) Reading Literary Essays after AI": if anyone's interested in writing / editing hmu, have a good central essay on Ishiguro / Cusk already.
A thing I think about a lot, as a confirmed social media addict, is how there used to be a time when so much more of the point of going online was to share things that were actually great and interesting, and how far we've strayed from God's light
anita de monte laughs last, gonzalez
everything and less: the novel in the age of amazon, mcgurl
teaching today
Remains my most controversial take, but sometimes you do need to just go to bed at 7:30PM.
salon dissolved into a content factory many years ago, no?
Three of my colleagues from USC did a long interview with Jacobin radio about our union, United Faculty, and it drops Tuesday, and if you want to hear about one of the country's biggest ongoing labor battles you better listen!
It’s been brought to my attention that my positions on AI are sometimes perceived as contradictory. Is he a doomer or an enthusiast?! 🤯 Herewith, a 🧵:
Oh, I don't *wash* it!
It's a lot heavier when it's made out of chainmail, David.
Oh! I guess I can up a pair.
Great, shocking reporting on the origins of the Supreme Court maneuver that has enabled Trump to impose his agenda without full-blown legal review. Roberts resented the Obama admin’s EPA and wanted quick protection for oil companies.
Part two in a series on the principles (not rules!) of fiction plotting countercraft.substack.com/p/the-princi...
I wish!
Cover of Spanish translation of Big Fiction, with images of open books
A picture of the intro for the Spanish edition
Title page with translator's name, Inigo Garcia Ureta
A list of titles from the flap from the Tipos moviles series
A genuine thrill to see Big Fiction in Spanish as Los más vendidos, translated by Íñigo García Ureta, with a new introduction I wrote for this translation with a few quick notes on Spanish publishing industries, in a series, Tipos móviles, by Trama w books by John B. Thompson, Roger Chartier + more
I know it's not the main point here, but do they not realise Dante, the OG hater of European poetry, will be creating an extra special circle of Hell for publishers that use an AI named after him?!?
"And in the nth circle, publishers having their brains eaten"
Chuck Tingle, healing cat fiction, Peruvian political novels, why slop matters, and three theses on aesthetic judgment: my latest sinykin.substack.com/p/three-thes...
Reese Witherspoon? The NFT evangelist?
Dua Lipa would never do this shit. Pick a new book club.
I have a grad student who just finished their dissertation on urban rivers. I could connect them.
Well, having had my mind blown several years ago by that writing, which I believe was also my first introduction to Bourdieu, let me say that this week has come to a perfect end, I'll just pack it up and enter the weekend. ✨
I wrote about Chuck Tingle and good taste. (Tingle's just a teaser, a ploy; it's not actually about Tingle; but it is about good taste.)
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my first thought
This novel by Jordy Rosenberg is 1000 times better than any of those little phrases on the front cover.
Kevin McNellis crunched the numbers to show what CBP and ICE are doing with all the billions from the (intense quotation marks coming) "One Big Beautiful Bill" www.kevinmcnellis.com/posts/ice-cb...
