From @beatdomjournal , an interview with CL author Brett Sigurdson about Jack Kerouac's archives: beatdom.substack.com/p/a-multicul...

Contemporary Literature issue 66.2 is out now, featuring new work on the poetics of recipes, small-press publishing, neurohumanities, and more! Contributors include Lucy Biederman, Monika Kaup, Pei-Chen Liao, Emmy Waldman, and Nayound Yang. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current

How was the future of literary criticism imagined in the past? From the archives: two essays by Hayden White and Edward Said, included in Contemporary literature V17.N3. Read it here: tinyurl.com/mr2r6de3

How have poets post Black Arts Movement navigated the politics of form? In issue 66.1, Lizzy LeRud explores interplays of formalism and (non)conformity in recent radical poetry. Read "A Thousand 'We Real Cools':New Forms in Recent African American Poetry" here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current

Contemporary Literature issue 66.1 is out now, featuring exciting new work by Inbar Gidron, Cynthia Hogue, Lizzy LeRud, Brett Sigurdson, and Emily K. Yoon. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curr....

Contemporary Literature issue 65.4 is out now, featuring new work by Brooke Conti, Katy Dadacz, Kristin Emanuel, Hannah A. Jorgensen, and Weishun Lu. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curr....

How does digital celebrity shape the self-consciousness of contemporary autofiction? Hannah A. Jorgensen answers in "Authentic Flesh, Digital Bits," featured in CL 65.4. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/65/4/514

2000 Blacks by Ajibola Tolase is on the shortlist for the 2025 Walcott Prize! Honoring the work of St. Lucian Nobel Prize poet Derek Walcott, the prize is offered annually for a book of poetry by a non-US citizen published anywhere in the world. Congrats, Ajibola! www.arrowsmithpress.com/walcott

If you missed our last talk of the 2024-25 academic year, you can find it on our YouTube channel: Ken Wissoker and Macarena Gómez-Barris discussing the vital need for academic writing and publishing in impossible times! youtu.be/52PR11MgTn0

Thank you @cl-journal.bsky.social, & Congratulations Jessica Swoboda! 'Rachel Cusk's Attention Ecology' is a brilliant article

We are thrilled to announce that Jessica Swoboda has been awarded the 2025 L.S. Dembo prize for her wonderful article, "Rachel Cusk's Attention Ecology." Honorable mention also goes to @georginacolby.bsky.social and Michael Dowdy. Details to follow... 🧵

New work on waste in @cl-journal.bsky.social

Don’t miss new work by @corinnanorue.bsky.social and @astarre.bsky.social on “Genre, Diversity, and Metanarrative” in Reese Witherspoon’s book club. Now available completely open access.

I went clubbing - book clubbing that is - with @corinnanorue.bsky.social and you can read about it in the new issue of @cl-journal.bsky.social. open access! cl.uwpress.org/content/65/3... More in Corinna's🧵

A new wave of Chinese science fiction "depict[s] waste, not ordered progress, as the substance of China’s contemporary reality and the genre’s primary concern." In issue 65.3, Martha Swift examines the underside of science fiction's high-tech futures. cl.uwpress.org/content/curr...

Contemporary Literature issue 65.3 is out now, featuring new work by Charlie Ericson, Sam Ladkin, Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Alexander Starre, Matt Prout, and Martha Swift! Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current

CL 65.3 is shaping up to be an exciting issue...stay tuned for its release later this week 📚🔜

How does autofiction contend with technologically mediated ways of seeing and projecting the self? In our read of the week, Marek Makowski produces “A New Exercise in Looking”: Experiments in Autofiction and the Novels of Olga Tokarczuk. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curr...

Great new titles out today! -Typophoto by Jessica D. Brier -Shelter and Storm by Tamara Dean -Hermes II: Interference by Michel Serres -Chaos and the Automaton by Franco Berardi w/ @eflux.bsky.social #NewBooks #NewBooks2025 #PubDay

How do modern managerialism, short-termism, and the information economy shape narrative resistance to work and capital? Huw Marsh offers a salient analysis in our read of the week: "'Bullshit' Jobs and Ticklish Comedy: Humor and Sadness in the Contemporary Novel." cl.uwpress.org/content/current

We're exhibiting at @scmstudies.bsky.social #SCMS25, and look forward to seeing friends old and new! Please stop by to visit @dlbookman.bsky.social & check out our recent titles! If you're not here in person, you can still browse our virtual exhibit and use the 30% discount: tinyurl.com/yfeybvzp

Philadelphia: reminder! Tomorrow, April 3, Big Blue Marble Bookstore will host a reading and conversation with Caroline Mar, Adrienne Perry, Somayeh Shams, and Eleanor Wilner, in celebration of Caroline Mar's new poetry collection, WATER GUEST! Details: tinyurl.com/479t22uy

We join @humanitiesall to condemn actions taken by the federal govt against the National Endowment for the Humanities. https://bit.ly/4i69BkJ Cuts to the NEH will ripple through the entire scholarly ecosystem, harm communities in every state & contribute to destroying our shared cultural heritage.

“What we are consistently hearing is that there is no data or evidence suggesting that federal funds allocated through the IMLS are being misused. In fact, these funds are essential for delivering vital services, often to the most underserved & vulnerable populations.” www.wired.com/story/instit...

More than 40 AUPresses members around the globe publish poetry, including @ualbertapress.bsky.social, @aucpress.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social & many more.https://bit.ly/42oN1OH Find them all in our Subject Area Grid https://bit.ly/3C7ASUc and #ReadUP!

For Women's History Month Lori Ginzberg and @profjennyshaw.bsky.social talk about exploring history through women's lives and discuss their latest books with @dgershenowitz.bsky.social 📖 Read a Q&A adapted from the full conversation 👇 uncpressblog.com/2025/03/25/e...

AWP attendees: reminder! The annual Wisconsin Poetry Series reading at #AWP25 will be held Thursday, March 27, at 6:30 PM, at The Hoxton Downtown LA Bar & Lounge, 1060 S Broadway. We hope you’ll join us for readings by Emily Bludworth de Barrios, Peter Covino, and Caroline M. Mar!

Museums and libraries are the main places where members of the public engage in lifelong learning outside of any formal school. Call your legislators. Tell them to protect library funding. bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...

Issue 65.2 highlight: Siobhan Phillips takes on culinary labor and the cookbook in Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor's "Vibration Cooking." 🍳Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curr...

Contemporary Literature issue 65.2 is now available, featuring exciting new work on autofiction, workplace novels, food writing, and more! Contributors include Marek Makowski, Huw Marsh, Kristi Maxwell, Siobhan Phillips, and Daniel Weston. 🗞️ Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current

Issue 65.1 highlight 🤖 Michael Gavin collaborates with ChatGPT to write "Literary Theory in the Age of Artificial Intelligence," a review of Dennis Yi Tenen's *Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write* (2024). Click here for more: cl.uwpress.org/content/current

CFP: Contemporary Literature seeks scholarly essays on post–World War II literature written in English which offer scope, supply a new dimension to conventional approaches, or transform customary ways of reading writers. Recent articles: cl.uwpress.org/content/current