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As Ben Bradlee would say, this leadership is akin to a “miserable, carping, retromingent vigilante.”

The best friend of any country’s left is Elon Musk.

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

The latest entry in Bob Spoo's forum "Future Pasts" is @fernham.bsky.social's reflection on the correspondence between Jessie Redmon Fauset and Langston Hughes: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

I.R.S. to Send Out Unclaimed Tax Credit to One Million Taxpayers Some Americans who qualified for a pandemic-era tax credit but did not claim it will get up to $1,400 in their account within the next month.

About one million taxpayers who were eligible for a pandemic-era tax credit in 2021 but did not properly claim it on their tax return will get up to $1,400 from the IRS within the next month.

Britain has seen an alarming rise in poetry sales --The Economist, 15 Jan 2024

2024 Headline of the Year nominee (January)

Biden cancels another $4.28 bln in U.S. student loans The Biden administration on Friday canceled another $4.28 billion in student debt for nearly 55,000 public service workers, the U.S. Department of Education said in a statement.

Nearly 5 million Americans have now had student debt canceled thanks to the Biden-Harris administration—including these public servants who just got life-changing news. www.reuters.com/world/us/bid...

BLUSHING! 😍

Watching Women - University of Toronto Press

My book (utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....) launches Wednesday! Rather than stressing,* I'm making a big thread of work by people who show up in my acknowledgments--because I'm SO grateful to all of them, but mostly because they write weird, wonderful, genius books 💜

(*still definitely stressing)

Four out of five of these have been highlighted as Today's #WaferThinBook this year.

Signal Boost : Especially Jersey area.

All books on the Columbia University Press website are 50%-70% off today! One day only! bit.ly/4eU8kuB @columbiaup.bsky.social

Again, there are 40 men currently on federal death row, a number of whom will certainly be executed under Trump, whose sentences Biden has the power to commute.

Make sure he knows they're waiting to hear from him, too.

CALL FOR PAPERS 🌿

@ebonyteach.bsky.social Ebony Elizabeth Thomas & I are co-editing a book!

ANNE FOR EVERYONE: GREEN GABLES, CHILDREN OF COLOR, and GLOBAL CHILDHOODS @upmississippi.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/AnneForEvery... proposals by Dec 1!

#AnneOfGreenGables #ChildLit #ProfessorLife #iSchoolUI

Have you…. seen Trump’s cabinet?

Last call, friends! @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social and I are collecting articles and books by contingent literary studies scholars for our 2024 @contingent-mag.bsky.social list. Please reply with your pubs by, say, end of day Mon, 12/2, to be included. Click through to see last year’s list.

England isn’t till April 2025…but I’ve had to teach an overload this fall to make it happen. So happy you’ll be there!!!

Ahh!! I was STUMPED

Well. While he’s pardoning folks….get all of the folks on death row pardoned, all those drug convictions for weed pardoned, etc etc etc.

Croix de guerre: Across from the station
Coup de grâce: Mow the lawn
Entrechat: Among us girls
Fait d'accompli: The party's over
Entresol: Here comes the fish
Hors d'oeuvre: Out of work
Miss en scéne: Jump in the river
Pas de tout: Father of twins
Pied-á-terre: One foot in the grave
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Why fin? I don’t get that one.

These are SO GOOD!!!!

might fuck around and start a tracksuit company called stolen velour

Hi!!! I think I maybe done microblogging, but happy to lurk and wave!!!

Awesome!!! That’s a big deal.

Brad!!! These are great! I can’t wait for the book.

Free French.
In the 1940s, Virginia Faulkner (my bio subject) wrote some fillers for Town & Country of some *liberal* translations.
Août: That hurts!
À la carte: On the wagon
Avoirdupois: Have some peas
Badinage: No swimming
Coup d'état: Sales tax
Endive: Stork Club e.g.
Faux pas: Stepfather
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I teach one section of my Transatlantic Modern Women class, which begins with The Feminist Killjoy Handbook during your talk, but I encouraged my evening students to attend. Three did and wrote up their thoughts. They were THRILLED to see you live. They're all working on their manifestoes now.

This Year’s Barbenheimer Is Here. This Time, There’s No Question Who Should Win. The Wicked movie will knock your slippers off.

The big-screen adaptation of Wicked could have gone wrong in so many ways, but it sidesteps nearly every one of them with nimble direction, gorgeous production design, & a heartstopping lead performance from Cynthia Erivo (& a charming if imperfect one from Ariana Grande):
slate.com/culture/2024...

Annual Ntl Endowment for the Humanities budget: $200mill. Ntl Science Foundation: $9bill. Every US taxpayer pays SIXTY CENTS/yr to support NEH vs $27/yr to NSF. If we *doubled* NEH budget, you'd pay just over $1. The NEH funds local museums, public history & community projects in all 50 states.