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I've lots of reading this month. I'm starting 2 new courses and I like to re/reread a lot before/as I teach. Keep it all fresh! So, I'm setting really ambitious but specific targets: 3 novels, 3 novellas, 1 non-fiction, 60 articles, 20 pieces of Bronte juvenilia, 10 short stories

if I click on queer writers will I get news about … Tulsi Gabbard or Texas?

The timing here is perfect for your vampire-loving friends—gift them a month as a sort of free trial just in time for @gavia.bsky.social’s recaps of The Vampire Lestat. 😉

Universities are for the conservation of knowledge-& the generation of new knowledge thru study & engagement with that knowledge conservation-& their current managers up to & including governments are failing universities’ core function in pursuit of short term fads & they should be shamed & reviled

Oh I see that trans rights is trending, which of course highlights any post with the word London in it. Good job bluesky, never change.

When I first encountered Rise of the Novel I definitely thought Alan Watts had branched out from pop philosophy

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Finally switched to DuckDuckGo and it’s nice to not have LLM summaries anymore

There are still a few tickets left for my book launch on Friday 5 June, apparently. It's taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland and also online. See you there? 📚🎉

The U. has spent thousands on travel for President Taylor Randall’s wife, including pricey trips with him to South Korea and Spain, Tribune finds www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Good Omens fandom sauntering vaguely downwards the Finale spiral, away from Amazon Prime and in the general direction of AO3:

The lesson I would take from this is that solidarity across ranks and including students works.

CFP Silly Old Bear? A Companion to Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-the-Pooh (8/1/2026) silly-old-bear.blogspot.com/2026/05/cfp-...

And for their faculty.

I don't know about immortality, but this person found some amazing details that point to Crowley and Aziraphale landing in the snowglobe. It has to exist or a reason. "From their home to yours"?? bsky.app/profile/shad...

My first post-Good Omens finale fic and my first GO fic in a while. I'm going to be away from my laptop now for ten days as I'm going on holiday and I wanted to publish this before I go. Just a little something. archiveofourown.org/works/85194791

The Boys is deeply unpleasant & gets off on that unpleasantness, but it does perfectly dramatize what a lost cause it is to show “loyalty” to Trump. Also, it was a nice treat to see Musk get drop-kicked into space

I have been a fan of @elizabethminkel.bsky.social since back then too! And of @fansplaining.bsky.social the original podcast and new...incarnation? resurrected form? Journalistic AU? Please support Fansplaining in all its forms! They even let me do source-appropriate footnotes.

Our latest piece is live! The great @prof-anne.bsky.social writes about the Good Omens series finale as a sort of metatextual gesture to fans—and especially fanfiction. "Good Omens’ final scenes are not subtle about their allegory of fanfic empowerment." Read or listen to an audio version:

Stephen Colbert and David Letterman throwing things off the Ed Sullivan Theater. Colbert: “Anything you’d like to say, Dave?” Letterman: “In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow to CBS: ‘Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.’”

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Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

There are stories from all over about universities' dismantling of the humanities. I have a small but dismaying data point from my university to contribute to the discourse. Harvard University now has NO assistant professors of English. That's how long it has been since we were allowed to hire.

I have a book coming out soon! It’s fan studies / literary studies and about the complex relationships between the internet and twenty-first century fiction and fanfiction. Please join me at the online launch: Wednesday 3 June, 7pm UTC: www.facebook.com/events/16107...

SO IMPORTANT (goes straight to fanfic class next week)

IMO That was a huge, validating love letter to fanfic and why fandom gets to keep its canons despite problematic author/gods. The correct place of the author: the benign dead looking on fondly but quietly at their creations' afterlives... #goodomens #go3spoilers #go3 #fanfiction

bluebooks would never

Leon Botstein, longtime friend of pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, has resigned as president of @bardcollege.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...

it happened to ME it can happen to YOU!! you too can innocently be browsing instagram on your civilian account when you are CONFRONTED with your OWN EROTICA!!! The madness MIGHT NEVER END there is NO END to our depravity!!!

I should also add that I am open to (really more like grabby-hands about) pitches! I have a giant brainstorming list of topics I'd love to publish that I'm happy to send out! Here's a little glimpse for you all. [email protected] for pitches, questions, kudos etc!

University of Utah student told to remove mention of ‘environmental justice’ from Earth Day flyer www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

The deadline for this call has been extended to Monday April 27th. Early-career scholars interested in #DH, #NLP #fandom and #fanfiction, take heed!

~in case you missed it~ the lovely hosts of @mindthetagspod.bsky.social had me on this week to talk about the seven-figure deal to to pull to publish the AO3's most popular fanfic, the 500K-word Remus/Sirius (Harry Potter) story All The Young Dudes. As you could guess, my feelings were...negative. 😌

Ya know, I wasn't even especially into the idea of a Buffy reboot, but now I have a NEW ENEMY. Who is this creepy exec?

Juniper is relaxing

Maxxing is the new gate

Whoopee! We’re all gonna die! If ever there was a time for Country Joe McDonald, RIP 1, 2, 3, what are we fighting for, don’t ask Trump, he don’t give a damn, the next stop is in Iran…

@philistella.bsky.social Hi, we met years ago when I was giving a talk--I've been trying to reach you. Could you message me current contact info?

TWC Updates Its Editorial Board journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

my big brother said he learned a lot about fic from listening :) as always so much fun to talk to @elizabethminkel.bsky.social and to @dylanthyme.bsky.social (I'm a long time reader)

Would love every other journalist who attempted a "why slash" article in the past three months to give this one a careful read and see the kind of research they could have (should have) done. Extremely refreshing!

all ready for the storm