At least with "Only Murders in the Building," the sense of coziness for me was in the team solving the crime -- the sense that they were always going to be safe and having a good time even while solving a murder. (The writers and producers have a lot to do with making that work...)
The W. H. Auden interactive poetry piece in the NYT this morning is interesting. By A.O. Scott and Aliza Aufrichtig. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Thanks, I will try submitting my own, though I will have to repost to a compatible blog format (I still use Google's Blogger!).
On anthologizing; If I were to do it for my own I would start with most popular/cited posts & add personal favorites. Also maybe crowdsourcing reader faves?
Also, I had actually been wondering about getting DOIs for blog posts (I had earlier seen that you had them on your blog and wondered how you did that), and am curious to learn more about Rogue Scholar. Do they accept non "science blogs"?
Thank you for this.
These various procedures for preservation you are doing are impressive, but also really onerous! I do worry about my own writing along the lines you describe.
Have you thought about anthologizing selections from your blog into book format and printing it?
Nice to be quoted here! Though technically, they're quoting me quoting Toni Morrison, so I'm more like the transmitter...
And thanks as always to @samcohen.bsky.social for fighting the good fight and pushing back against book bans & censorship.
For people writing about digital media stuff, how are you spelling these words in your formal copy:
* E-book, ebook, eBook, or e-book?
* Ereader, ereader, eReader, or e-reader?
Chicago Style appears to prefer "E-book." But... a little dated?
MS Word prefers "eBook"
Which are you all using?
My project, African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology is nominated here.
If you’ve found the project helpful, consider voting for it? Deadline April 17. (And while you’re there, check out the many great projects on the list!)
Debut 1995 live performance of Rachel's -- chamber music group created by the guitarist of the indie band Rodan -- is in here!
archive.org/details/ajc0...
I have had to cancel like four (including the one I had with you!).
(BTW, I think I recently met one of your colleagues from the English department at Empire State at the Asian American studies conference in Hawaii. Does the name Himanee Gupta-Carlson ring a bell?)
I’ve got the audiobook running as we speak!
For those looking to be distracted from our current and ongoing news hellscape, I thought I should mention:
there is a new Tana French novel out.
Rewiring Archives: Asian American Literature in the Age ofPlatforms (Honolulu III) Chair/Discussant: Tara Fickle, Associate Professor of Asian AmericanStudies From Access to Interpretation: Rethinking Asian American Digital Archives Yanyi, Asian American Literary Archive Who has access, and why? Discussants: Anne Cong-Huyen, UC Santa Barbara The role of academic libraries in archival partnershipswith faculty and community organizations Long Le-Khac, University of California Berkeley Scrutinizing the Inequalities within Asian AmericanLiterary Canons Amardeep Singh, Lehigh University Pan-Ethnic Identity in Asian American LittleMagazines Yingying Han, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dialogue-based archives: Activating archives throughCommunity Engagement with Asian American lawrence-minh bùi davis, The Asian American LiteraryReview Literary Programming Meets Archiving / as Archivin
This past weekend I finally presented something related to that project at the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) conference in Honolulu.
Part of an all-star panel with @anitaconchita.bsky.social, Tara Fickle, Long Le-Khac, Yingying Han, @yanyiii.com and others.
A few years ago I spent the better part of a summer working on a small #DH project called "Asian American Little Magazines, 1968-1974."
The idea was to trace the emergence of the pan-ethnic idea of "Asian American" identity in a group of magazines.
scalar.lehigh.edu/asian-americ...
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Recommended: a new piece by @whitfrazier.bsky.social in _Public Humanities_ journal (open access).
The piece compares the 2 versions of Countee Cullen's "Heritage." I believe it's the first to read it alongside the African sculptures in Locke's "Survey Graphic."
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A not so subtle dig at the new policy on campus speech?
Sounds great! (Confessing I had to look up anemioa — not sure how I’ve come this far without hearing that word before…)
Wow, this is bleak. Not even niche departments / programs (though it is hard *not* to notice "Digital Humanities" on ths list!).
Classics, Religion, Art history -- core Humanities fields. Are they going to "re-envision" them as some watered-down/generic *Humanities* major...?
I’m sure folks in India and China are having that exact thought right now. (Here in ‘murica, not so much.)
So glad you are coming to our department!
I myself may not be able to attend the conference ... am on sabbatical this spring! But I hope you have smooth travels & a good visit.
Looking forward to delivering a keynote for Lehigh University English's Literature and Social Justice grad conference, which is centered on health, illness, and disability this year.
The podcasters call them "Bleats."
As in, the "distant bleating of sheep in a field." Also, rhymes with Tweet.
I have loved that novel for a long time, and even wrote about it in my dissertation (on the "religious closet" and the description of DD's face/nose).
But I've never taught it! Good on you for taking it on. (Hopefully they'll like the Mordecai sections as much as they're liking the first half...)
Irish postcolonial studies in effect…
He’s like a full-on professor of postcolonial studies... (Kids: If you like Zohran, take my class!)
Asian Studies scholars appear to appreciate Gen AI as a tool for working with data and for quick translation.
Journal editors said their submission rates are way up (150%). Many Asian-language speakers are using Gen AI to translate their scholarship into idiomatic English. So it's democratizing. 2/
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(Thank you for this. Out of curiosity -- was there something that particularly inspired your post?)
Looking forward to presenting on this panel on Colonial Archives + South Asian #DH this weekend.
Got it — thanks. Might try a version of this this fall!