Given where I teach, I will definitely check this out. Thank you.

LMAO

When the information that turns up demands more than a plaque or an acknowledgement, those in power get ugly.

A hand holding the novel Blue Light Hours by Bruna Dantas Lobato. Cover is blue with cutout white space showing a long haired individual in front of a laptop.

Cover of Ayşegül Savaş's novel The Anthopologists. Green hues surround a photograph of a hand sticking a pointer finger into a glass of amber liquid.

Two books I've read recently. Both are gorgeous and understated.

I left the Catholic Church in my heart decades ago, and made that formal fairly recently. I‘ve even participated in pope enthusiasm, but I can’t forget what’s been done in that church’s name. Nope nope nope. The enemy of my enemy can remain a vague acquaintance at best.

And worse, that you somehow don’t grasp structural inequality because you haven‘t embraced the planet destroying slop machines

Nice that there's still space and desire for wonder in the world.

I agonize over posting and whether it's ever worthwhile. Meanwhile, elected officials threaten war crimes and genocide while others call it a distraction.

It's hard not to just scream, over and over again, that the US power elite being ok-to-enthusiastic about Israel's decades of illegal and genocidal violence against Palestinians is why Trump can openly brag about doing war crimes against Iran and it's just normal and unremarkable

For a second I thought you meant private roads and inspectors funded by public dollars and, frankly, I wouldn't be surprised anymore.

The proposed 1.5 trillion spending continues this administration's in plain sight market manipulation.

No funding budget needs to pass for the promise of it to spike the stocks long enough for a few of them to clean up.

Thank you so much! 🥂

🧡 Thank you so much, Christina! It all still feels like a dream, but I am so grateful to be able to share this work out.

Laughing at the End of the World: Unsettling Laughter in Black Literature

Laughing at the End of the World: Unsettling Laughter in Black Literature

Congratulations @diegom.bsky.social !!!

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Thank you, Neelofer!

happy tdov, "visibility" without protection is a threat

And my response!

But at least it’s moments to gather, maybe catch a collective breath. Greetings from the other side of the mountain!

So much time wasted wasted on this thug, his minions, and their evil maneuvers.

Something for each day. Our collective breath directed to correct such villainy. Left distracted or at least exhausted.

Screen capture from the Duke UP website of Laughing at the End of the World: Unsettling Laughter in Black Literature. A center image of books stacked acts as a placeholder, noting that a cover image is coming soon.

I would wait until April Fool’s Day to post this, but it’s no trick!

Laughing at the End of the World has a pub date! And it’ll be in one of my favorite series @dukepress.bsky.social.

Someday if stopping off at the moon we’re just for a refuel and a snack I’m not letting people skate. 😂

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?

So many of these pieces pretending to be anything but what they are: hype men for a failing industry so someone else gets left holding the bag.

People have the decency to say “well I’ve been to Chicago but it was only a layover,” but then again when has decency ever factored in for them.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Shoutout to all my trans friends/family. Keep creating fearlessly.

That decision on today of all days. Vile.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Every fight is worth fighting, every joy worth holding dear. 🏳️‍⚧️

Our special issue of Arizona Quarterly on the American novel at the turn of the 20th century is now out! In addition to an intro by @natewolff.bsky.social and me, it includes 6 original essays and a bracing afterword by Jennifer Fleissner (which, among other things, urges us back to Lears).

How many ways to say this must end.

I’m so deeply tired of the way people make every national and global atrocity about past and upcoming US elections.

On Parenthood and Genocide A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

In Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Congo — mothers are mourning their babies.

Resharing this piece I wrote over two years ago because we’re still watching a genocide happen, watching even more parents mourn.

Women’s day includes these women too.

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