Transcription is good but there’s not enough on unboxing videos.

The Book of Elsewhere is quite odd.

Look, what I'm saying is, it isn't a genre or a tradition... it's a, um, tendency. Totally different thing.

This seems microtargeted to me. 😅

The moral of the story is obviously that competitive markets are bad for the arts.

Well, the Straussian reading would be...

Only Obsidian gets it 100% right, imo—but it takes fiddling to make it look good on Mac+iPhone, and some nuisances remain. Typora, Bear, iA Writer are all close seconds—but have their own little annoying paper cuts.

There are a zillion markdown editors out there; sadly, only a handful bother to properly implement footnotes.

Abstracts are due today for POETRY'S PROGRAM ERA INSTITUTIONS--a seminar at ASAP/17 in Madison this October. A heavy line-up is shaping up--join us! @asapartsnow.bsky.social

it's officially out! :)

Anyone out there have a PDF of Joshua Clover's "The Genealogical Avant-Garde" (2014) handy?

I assume the only authentic way to read Transcript is on one’s phone.

Do you believe that this world I have described—in which people no longer grossly misread "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"—might exist? No? Then let me describe one more thing.

No need for AI here. I cognitively surrendered many, many years ago. 🤪

Email #4?

Was so worried the novel was dead. Apparently not! 😅

bruh
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Wow — On what basis? What was their specific complaint?

*Dery

I think he coined it based on a specific example, but generalized it.

One more possibility: Afrofuturism was coined by Mark Derry on the basis of only a handful of examples -- to much later controversy.

He does describe it as an offshoot of historical fiction so subgenre?

Another example maybe: McGurl’s Adult Baby Diaper Lover (ABDL) erotica.

Xander’s article on the “recent historical novel”?

"The most persuasive and engaging account I’ve read of how the internet ... has become a legitimate and exciting site of literary creation." -- Vauhini Vara

Coming later this Spring, WE THE PLATFORM, by Aarthi Vadde. tinyurl.com/4tw79pyp @aarthivadde.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Is my inability to decide if the relation between X and Y is a *tension* or *contradiction* a tension in my argument or a contradiction?

The most shocking thing about Home Alone is that the family gets through airport security in under 45 minutes for an international flight.

Reclaiming "it's not an x—it's a y" from the robots.

Hoppe won. 😳

As it turns out, writing every day is highly correlated with finishing pieces of writing. It's always nice to learn new things at midcareer.

Look, if you’re gonna use an LLM to write or rewrite your book, at the very least have the dignity to claim that it was some kind of conceptual art project/critique of the low standards of the publishing industry when you get caught.