Hot damn!

saw that the forthcoming issue of Parapraxis is on GROUPS and was like I stg if Tracy McNulty isn't in this--but, don't worry, she is, she is! I should have further news about another pub of hers to share on here come 7/1 so stay tuned, friends www.parapraxismagazine.com/magazine

"This committee’s report would be terrible in the best of times, with its secret evidence and embarrassingly weak arguments compounded by a call for administrative repression. But to make these fantastical claims during the middle of a war against the humanities is a particularly dangerous delusion"

I was honored to write about Marjane Satrapi, about the sacred space of the seminar room, and about PERSEPOLIS — a work of art that will live forever. For @newrepublic.com: newrepublic.com/article/2114...

My new essay, on "The Institution(s) of High School English," and the chasm that exists between high school and university English departments, is out now in Post45! Such a pleasure to be thinking alongside this fabulous collection of teachers and scholars! post45.org/2026/06/inst...

"Gaslighting can be many diff things...But in any manifestation, it is a form & function of narrative. [It] depends on the power to propagate a false story that negates another person’s reality." Get a taste of VICTORIAN GASLIGHTING on the @sunypress.bsky.social blog sunypress.edu/Blog/2026/Ga...

SALE!! 30% off @sunypress.bsky.social LGBTQ+ titles for Pride Month--including preorders for new books, preorders for forthcoming paperbacks of books already out in hardcover, and not-so-oldie-but-goodies (eg our history of trans med in the US). Use code SPRIDE26: sunypress.edu/Collections/...

new history of leftist poetry about to drop !!

this is so so good

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

RIP Sonny Rollins! My favorite musician and a genius. Time to spin St. Thomas.

if your opening gambit is an obviously false assertion — that there was an entire literature challenging the conventional view of birthright citizenship — and then you work your way backwards into an argument, you are a hack and a liar no matter how certain you are that you are right

say it again: SOCIALIZE TO ORGANIZE www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-cas...

This interview with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new monograph, Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale from @livunipress.bsky.social , was such a good conversation open.spotify.com/episode/1cXr...

our undergrad English majors want their own graduation event. It's in 90 minutes or so. They asked me to speak at it. Just wrote my little speech. I'm proud of it! It goes like this: medievalkarl.com/general-cult...

Good morning. Would you like perhaps a small collection of poems that tries to capture the long vanishing of a small greenish bird? YOU CAN GET ONE HERE: flumepress.com/authors/anim...

ART IS FOR EVERYBODY rare beyond measure for a critic to be read so attentively and exhaustively, imaginatively and deeply, from juvenilia to incipient books talking with the poet and scholar Brad Fest for his venerable boundary2 interview series was the honor of my professional life

The conference starts today. No false modesty. Trust me when I say I’m truly humbled at all the work the committee poured into organizing this event. I didn’t lift a finger. Grateful to everyone for honoring my 50 years of work. woodson.as.virginia.edu/McDowell2026 virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I increasingly think that @annakornbluh.bsky.social is one of our most important critics, and so I am beyond honored that I got to talk with her about her work and career in the fall of 2024. The interview has just appeared in boundary 2 (and should be free). read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...

"Only about 12 percent of trustees at American colleges & universities have professional experience in higher education. If it seems odd to imagine 88% of the directors at, say, investment banks having no particular expertise in investment banking, that is the situation in the field of higher ed."

Please consider making a donation to the Islamic Center of San Diego Victim and Family Support Fund if you are able. goodbricks.org/campaign/ics...

that's IMMEDIACY: "on platforms optimized for engagement, visibility,+emotional reaction questions of truth increasingly became filtered through identity, emotion, + social validation rather than through slower institutional systems of evidence, authority, + debate." www.wired.com/story/book-e...

Good Morning, Friends, I am looking for help in compiling a list of readings that you like to help convince my students that the liberal arts and humanities are an antidote to the hellscape that is AI. I will be happy to share what we can compile together at the end. Thanks in advance!

COVER REVEAL: so excited and grateful for this design by Hadley Kehoe at Cal State Chico for Flume Press. This short book about bird extinction coming your way later in the summer. I will be spamming the pre-order link soon 🌿

it's your girl, heist scholar delighted to hear "Falling Heists, Rising Grift: Filming Capital in the Already Long Twenty-First Century" (South Atlantic Quarterly 2025) featured in the second half of the THEFT episode of philosophy podcast OVERTHINK! open.spotify.com/episode/2TnJ...

Dreams do come true. I reviewed Annie McClanahan's Beneath the Wage in Spectre. My thanks to editors @grundrza.bsky.social and Camila Valle.

Joseph Stella, Battle of Lights, 1913-14? (dated on painting 1914 and 1915) https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134940

If you were a smart journalist, you’d be interviewing @mattseybold.bsky.social rn about the Canvas hack

universities have the brainpower, resources,+ community obligation to develop on-site secure NON PROFIT learning management systems + ed tech overseen by actual educators, not data-extraction censorious surveillance profiteers! VOID THE CONTRACTS theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...

get caught up on the backstory while you can't get caught up on grading theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/historyofc...

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

“the hours must be recovered” is a pretty good assessment of the teaching situation substack.com/home/post/p-...

Oh, you know you've been curious. You've seen everyone reading it, teaching from it, but have needed that little prompt to buy. Here it is! $12.48! A steal, with these genius little delights from faves like Jane Hu, Katie Kadue, Brian Glavey, Omari Weekes, and so many more. Go ahead. Buy it. Click.

it's @princetonupress.bsky.social 's spring sale—50% off with code SPRING50 that means you can buy CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY for $12.48

I don't know if you all know this but lesbians saved poetry--& poetry may have just saved lesbians. So suggests the ever witty, winking @lisalmoore.bsky.social in a new collection of essays, interviews, poems, & more coming in Nov from @sunypress.bsky.social: sunypress.edu/Books/H/How-...

it's a good moment to preorder POWER SURGE at 40% off--a new conglomerate history of Hollywood from 1989 to 2004 www.ucpress.edu/books/power-...

I was THRILLED to join the Planet Money team for their fab book publishing series to talk about Bestsellers! How the NYT makes the list, how writers can make the list, how to hack the list. All while mere feet from book rainmaker Terry Gross’s studio! Give a listen!

this is my ministry. make hobbies leftist again bsky.app/profile/noam...

Taught it for the second time today and the class ACTUALLY cheered at the final lines.

Hey, it's my birthday today and I'd love to hear what your favorite episode of the show is, and/or who in the world you'd most want to hear on the show going forward. Share a link of the conversation that is most unforgettable to you. Here's one of mine to start it off: milkweed.org/between-the-...

incredible company to keep! theorize the omnicrisis, periodize the present, construct categories - and then make a better world "READ ALONG" thanks to two stellar teachers @mattseybold.bsky.social and @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, for this indispensable syllabus bsky.app/profile/matt...

The big takeaway of the AI discourse is that we have to stop trying to replace each other.

Can’t wait!

"29% of respondents in states w/ a 'divisive concepts' law said they had altered their research & 10% said they were looking for a job in a diff state. Researchers in education & nursing were among the most likely to have altered their research." www.chronicle.com/article/near...

One issue we have at Georgetown is that —using this analogy— the cigarette companies’ proxies are at every level of the administration & also in the business school & apparently also the applied STEM disciplines, which is why AI grading has just been approved by our main campus executive faculty

Kit's Pound chapter in Stitch, Unstitch is virtuosic & now we have a shit-talking podcast to accompany it! Check out This Guy Sucked--one of my favorite podcasts

Hype some other books too!!

It’s World Book Day! Hype your latest book!!

I went on This Guy Sucked to talk about a guy who sucked: Ezra Pound. 20 minute preview; full thing subscriber only; I hope you haters enjoy @ceaubin.com . @thisguysucked.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...