The bad reviews of Wuthering Heights just make me more excited to see it.

On this Galentine's day, I celebrate the ten-year anniversary of this great event in the history of sexuality. komonews.com/news/local/a...

NYC: GO TO THIS TONIGHT! Two brilliant minds in fiction. Nina McConigley's book is big news in Energy Humanities / THE NOVEL / Anti-Colonial Fiction. Say you saw her when because you're going to be seeing her everywhere. greenlightbookstore.com/event/2026-0...

Folks going to @c19americanists.bsky.social conference: Give a hand up in the comments if you want me to bring you your very own copy of TWELVE STORIES in Cincinnati. Also a good time to think about a desk copy if you're considering Fall adoption. Remember the ladies! edu.prh.com/us/desk/

Don't fear. The ghost of the future is also unknown to itself.

ummmm what's going on with google books today?

A few years ago I decided to write a book about a group of people who had not been extensively studied, who constantly changed their names, had terrible handwriting and unprecedented ideas, and lied about everything. But it's all been worth it because WHAT A STORY.

Today my little brother would have been 35. To celebrate, here are some of his core beliefs: -all skittles taste the same -a rule of jenga is if you yell jenga before you lose you still lose, but if you don't you're disqualified -Donna Tartt is a persona invented by the publishing industry

The thinking part of writing I like to do to a soundtrack and that's been truer than ever with this book. Sneak peek of playlist! Currently writing the part where two female cult leaders work together to snuff out their enemies. Peep the track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh8Q...

We wouldn't be in this situation if we took female comedians more seriously.

I'm sorry, genius.

Catherine O'Hara as Katharine Hepburn for SCTV. Genius, genius, genius.

To the hattest woman to have lived in our times: "The minute Catherine found out that she was going to officiate, she came up with the idea of, 'What if we dressed her kind of like the pope? She had the idea for the headpiece, she wanted to have a little bit of her hair wrapped around the hat."

OMG this is so terrible.

Submit to this Edith Wharton society panel at the MLA -- looking for scholars at any level, grad students, independent scholars, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

I love #literarylandscapes and the kind of place-based work they do. Such a rich issue.

AI was trained by Stuart Smalley. "You're good enough, you're smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like you."

My review of @zibrak.bsky.social 's WRITING AGAINST REFORM is up at Transatlantica (revue le plus chic! 🇫🇷)! An honor to think with a book this smart, which taught me a lot and pushed me to articulate some—I hope!—productive tensions or disagreements: journals.openedition.org/transatlanti...

Very moved by this nuanced and thoughtful review of WRITING AGAINST REFORM by @natewolff.bsky.social (free to read in English at: journals.openedition.org/transatlanti... ) "this critique (of sentimentalism) needed an extra dash of dialectics." 💙💙💙How can you not love this scholar?💙💙💙

Just to be clear, the majority party Freedom Caucus in Wyoming did not cut $40 million from the university block grant because it had to. They literally do not know what to do with the surplus revenue. They did it because they want the people of the state to remain ignorant.

People of Cambridge and Boston! Come with me to see the wonder that is my dearest Wyoming friend, Nina McConigley, reading from her hot new novel and in conversation with Laura Van den Berg. I MEAN! Porter Sq. Books. Feb 9. 7pm. portersquarebooks.com/event/2026-0...

ALA 2026 Edith Wharton International Society Seeks panels for a roundtable on “Wharton & Pedagogy.” (1/3)

Just a reminder.

"My own mind." That's his reality entire, folks. And they want it to be yours, too. Each in our own reality alone.

The thing about pillagers is, they rarely stop and say, "Well, that's enough pillaging for me!"

Sometimes I think my own shitty undergrad writing process should now just be an assignment: 1. read one (MAYBE two) thing(s) 2. go to the computer lab and sit there for three hours 3. turn in what I wrote But instead of computer lab, typewriter room.

There are certain moments when I must read My Hatreds by Emile Zola, and when that text is in a box away from me (such as now) this video is the only reliable substitution. youtube.com/shorts/V1ASn...

Can we stop saying Madura and his wife? Flores is the former first lady and a deputy in the national assembly, a lawyer with a long political career, not Jane Jetson.

Very bad version of empire! Shabby situation room! No big maps!

We fight for roses, too.

What's your favorite name of an actual puritan? I'm between Mehitable Huntoon and Zebedee Ring at this time.

Blessed to share a nation and a savior, indeed.

This photograph is giving Carl Van Vechten. It's giving Miro. It's giving Man Ray and Ruth Bernard. It's saying I am all of art history and you are a med spa pamphlet.

Realism in the news.

Sometimes I think wow, the Great Dead Authors would have really hated this, but then I worry they'd be as distracted by year-round fresh fruit as the rest of us.

Whether or not I will hate watch this even a little is a real nailbiter to myself.

💫When a review says you did what you wanted to do “Zibrak has written . . . a call to action to academic writers to not just write insular criticism but scholarship that is engaging, affecting, and purposeful.” Tx Mark Noonan at MFS muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Stephanie Insley Hershinow surveys recent Austen-related works on Jane Austen's 250th birthday: "Austen offers endless opportunity for examination and reexamination; still, it might be fair to ask what more one can say about our dear Jane." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/happy-birthday-jane/

My student Lena Newlin published her podcast on the potter's field in our local cemetery, which she originally developed in my Public Humanities class! Lena is a descendent of Japanese-American railroad workers and a gifted writer whose work you'll be hearing a lot more about in the near future.

It is often true of good literature (though/sigh) that the prose is a little in love with the object of its harshest criticism. They understand it.

So happy that "On Christian Nationalism: Critical and Theological Perspectives" is now out in print! With 19 contributors, the book addresses definitions of CN; historical development; intersections with racism, sexism, antisemitism, and Islamophobia; and practical ways to address the problem.

Is American Canto maybe what we need right now? Should I read it??

trains.

"The New Politics of Online Feminism," by Akane Kanai, is an ethnographic account of how young people in online feminist subcultures produce and perform feminist knowledge in search of living an ethical life. #MediaStudies #FeministStudies Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/ce4CRRy

Writing this book was a long way for me to work through my own relationship between activism and creative practice. If that seems like something you might like to own, everything at UMass Press is 40% off with code HOLIDAY. Some other suggestions in comments! www.umasspress.com/978162534771...

"The years I taught . . . were scarred by despair, but I never despaired about my students, who, when our conditions allowed it, showed me again and again how close reading requires and multiplies both trust and strength." YES. @johannawinant.bsky.social at @bostonreview.bsky.social

Happy 44th to Britney Spears, from whom I think we can all say we've learned a lot.

This company is so forthright about their own violence.

“I’ve been disabled for 14 years,” Jessica Slice writes, “but have never lived somewhere safe where I can use all (or even most) of the rooms.” She reports on the indignities of seeking housing when exclusion is built into the architecture: