This is a good account by @nataschastrobl.bsky.social of what happened in Hungary—how a center-right figure, using Mamdani-like campaign tactics, managed to overthrow an authoritarian regime, what we can now expect and hope for, and what we can learn from this.
Thanks!!
what percentage of the GDP might here be adequate
it would be illuminating to also see what percentage of the US economy we are talking about—rather than just going with inflation adjusted cash value.
It IS plagiarism, whatever line of thinking you choose. And I do think we should assert our claim to our own work. How is the question.
So reasonable—why does it need to be said and even argued? But it does need to be and @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social makes the case well.
Book cover of Justin E.H. Smith’s “The Internet is not what you think it is”
“By treating the internet as a short-term problem-solver, we created for ourselves some new, very big problems; by allowing the internet to compel us to attend to a constant stream of different, trivial things, we have become unable to focus on the monolithically important thing that it is.”
In what sense are red states representative of conservatism in any real, conventional sense? The 21st c American Right is not conservative, even though they call themselves that.
Heard it loud and clear—seen her work although not read the book—thank you!
I knew about the 1969 moon landing. And knew that news of the My Lai massacre came out in '69. But I had those events in separate boxes. Occurs to me now that it must have been disorienting to feel proud of (one aspect of) your country, while also deeply shamed by its crimes.
Another president we urgently need to resign.
The president of the teachers’ union, fellow citizens.
So if you’re a scholar in the humanities at UChicago, I’m (a) sorry for you but also (b) not sorry for you if you throw your lot with the virtues of Humanities + AI money, even if it’s “critical AI.” This is about diffusion and cultural diffusion is part of the program.
I can’t believe Rowling discourse is making me defend that weird little antisemite but come the fuck on. (And yeah I said I hate Wagner but Tristan and Isolde is fucking ART)
Does anyone know if the @britishlibrary.bsky.social ever plans to restore the Shakespeare in Quarto site or to make the underlying digital facsimiles accessible? The Oxford Shakeespeare Quartos Archive (which had copies) is also defunct. Are those facsimiles accessible somehow?
@richove.bsky.social
How does a small group of agents shape our sense of what counts as literary?
How come there are so many debut novelists but so few careers in writing?
Why is the short story so important even if it doesn’t sell nearly as well as the novel?
ALL THIS AND MORE IN…
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Three news items dealing with scissors.
Scissors on 13 March 1911, a day not unlike 16 June. @adamwithbooks.bsky.social made a fun book.
Tomorrow!!!
Private equity has been fantasizing about the capture of education for decades. This is the deepest they’ve ever gotten their tendrils into it.
Poster of Laura McGrath's book talk about Middlemen. Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction (forthcoming in April from Princeton UP) takes readers behind the scenes to show how agents influence what we read. Weaving together archival research, data analysis, and interviews with scores of publishing professionals, it shows the work of agents—eighty percent of whom are in fact women— as advocates, matchmakers, negotiators, and tastemakers, who balance artistic values with the commercial imperatives of publishing conglomerates. Laura McGrath is an Assistant Professor of English at Temple University. Prior to that, she worked as the Associate Director of the Literary Lab at Stanford. She has written on books, publishing history, and data for academic venues as well as for The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
If you are in New York on Thursday, March 26th, come uptown to hear @lbmcgrath.bsky.social speak about her book Middlemen, about literary agents and how they shape literature: at City College, at the Rifkind Center for Humanities and Arts, at 5 pm.
you go and search (found the actual website), even though I must admit I got to them via bookfinder --> amazon...): bestandfastest.com
better not be the case… can’t afford it.
Wasn’t sold as that!
I also have a cpl of books that were Kristeller’s—not dedication copies: fiction by ETA Hoffmann. But inscribed. It was discarded by Columbia when I was a grad student—when they were processing POK’s library after he died.
From a bookseller in NJ. Will check if they have other books he owned. Could be a random item, something a student picked up in a hallway in the 1960s.
He never opened it…
I just bought this, not knowing it is Panofsky’s copy.
Oh, and the poster says the room is 6/316.
