Lee Konstantinou
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Another turn on the Genre Turn (and a review of Jeremy Rosenās excellent Genre Bending).
www.chronicle.com/article/is-l...
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Opinion | Is āLiterary Fictionā Just Another Genre Now?
There is no real middlebrow any more.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-literary-fiction-just-another-genre-now
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Since the dawn of time, the corrupt postmodernism youth of Athens have put Socrates to death, again and again. Oh wait, n/m. Onward!
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Also, using Zotero takes 3x as long as typing them by hand because Iām constantly using new sources that have crappy/not-quite-right metadata.
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about 5 hours ago
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I never really believed in mimetic desire, but my 3yo is trying earnestly to convince me it really is at the root of all human motivation.
about 14 hours ago
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Sure, why not, instead of writing this essay why donāt I spend hours tweaking my CSS to make my markdown editor look exactly like a column of New Yorker type?
8 days ago
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A party primerā¦
12 days ago
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Am reminded that Bay Area summers are, fairly literally, bone-chilling.
13 days ago
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Making progress.
14 days ago
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Iāll just swap out the existing AI policy on my syllabus and refer students to this.
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15 days ago
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Dr. No is a wacky novel.
16 days ago
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I have never really worried about giving spoiler warnings in criticism before, but writing this essay about James, I wonder if I should.
28 days ago
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Are there any nationally representative surveys re: which books Americans have actually read? Iāve found a YouGov survey indicating how many people have, e.g., *heard of* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. But does anyone know how many people have actually *read* it?
29 days ago
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The Fort Dupont Ice Arena reno cost $39 million and itās basically completely empty. Also itās awesome.
29 days ago
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I seem not to own medium-sized books.
30 days ago
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Not all the news in DC is bad.
about 1 month ago
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The cops are investigating.
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about 1 month ago
Thanks to all our authors from April: Elaine Wik, Robab Vaziri,
@johncke.bsky.social
, Kim Moody, and
@lkonstan.bsky.social
. Links to all of these pieces in the thread.
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Toly Rinberg
about 1 month ago
Ah yes, content directly pandering to me
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Second generation e-lit. š¹
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about 1 month ago
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My review of
@roberttally.bsky.social
's great book on Tolkien's Orcs. This one was fun to write.
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Jason Read
about 1 month ago
Wonder what China MiƩville has been up to since he wrote that book with Keanu Reeves, well his next book comes out this fall and it is 1260 pages long.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554904...
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The Rouse by China MiƩville: 9780399181092 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the makingāa deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of personal grief, global tumult,.....
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554904/the-rouse-by-china-mieville/
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Transcription is good but thereās not enough on unboxing videos.
about 2 months ago
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The Book of Elsewhere is quite odd.
about 2 months ago
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Look, what I'm saying is, it isn't a genre or a tradition... it's a, um, tendency. Totally different thing.
about 2 months ago
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The moral of the story is obviously that competitive markets are bad for the arts.
about 2 months ago
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There are a zillion markdown editors out there; sadly, only a handful bother to properly implement footnotes.
about 2 months ago
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Nick Sturm
about 2 months ago
Abstracts are due today for POETRY'S PROGRAM ERA INSTITUTIONS--a seminar at ASAP/17 in Madison this October. A heavy line-up is shaping up--join us!
@asapartsnow.bsky.social
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Annie McClanahan
2 months ago
it's officially out! :)
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Anyone out there have a PDF of Joshua Clover's "The Genealogical Avant-Garde" (2014) handy?
2 months ago
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I assume the only authentic way to read Transcript is on oneās phone.
2 months ago
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Do you believe that this world I have describedāin which people no longer grossly misread "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"āmight exist? No? Then let me describe one more thing.
2 months ago
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No need for AI here. I cognitively surrendered many, many years ago. š¤Ŗ
2 months ago
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maybe: leif weatherby
2 months ago
bruh
www.cia.gov/resources/cs...
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Review Essay: Language Machines - CSI
https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intelligence/studies-in-intelligence-vol-70-no-1-extracts-march-2026/media-review/
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Philip Leventhal
2 months ago
"The most persuasive and engaging account Iāve read of how the internet ... has become a legitimate and exciting site of literary creation." -- Vauhini Vara Coming later this Spring, WE THE PLATFORM, by Aarthi Vadde.
tinyurl.com/4tw79pyp
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Is my inability to decide if the relation between X and Y is a *tension* or *contradiction* a tension in my argument or a contradiction?
2 months ago
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The most shocking thing about Home Alone is that the family gets through airport security in under 45 minutes for an international flight.
2 months ago
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Reclaiming "it's not an xāit's a y" from the robots.
3 months ago
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As it turns out, writing every day is highly correlated with finishing pieces of writing. It's always nice to learn new things at midcareer.
3 months ago
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Look, if youāre gonna use an LLM to write or rewrite your book, at the very least have the dignity to claim that it was some kind of conceptual art project/critique of the low standards of the publishing industry when you get caught.
3 months ago
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Annie McClanahan
3 months ago
I wanted to take a moment to let folks know that Ted Martin's extraordinary book _American Literature's War on Crime_ is out! The book surveys almost 100 novels to explore how the War on Crime was waged on the page & how fiction made the policies & ideologies of crime control legible. It's amazing!
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American Literature's War on Crime | Columbia University Press
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/american-literatures-war-on-crime/9780231211819/
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3 months ago
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On this day, I found myself forced (no choice folks) to use the word "thinkfluencer" in a sentence. It had to be doneāreally!ābut I still feel deeply ashamed.
3 months ago
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Matthew Kirschenbaum
3 months ago
Guess it didnāt have legs
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Experiencing an existential crisis because I am not sure if I should capitalize Elves, Orcs, and Goblins when writing about Tolkienās Middle-earth.
3 months ago
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Ultimately, I use the word "ultimately" far too often in my writing, and ultimately as a substitute for thought.
3 months ago
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Laura McGrath
3 months ago
My book, MIDDLEMEN: LITERARY AGENTS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FICTION, comes out in six weeks!It shows how literary agents went from "cankers" to "mere peripheral necessities" to "the center of the literary establishment" to "the biggest fish in publishing."
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Middlemen
A revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to today
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691256160/middlemen
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If only Homer had sung about the joy of Achilles.
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Dan Sinykin
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Finally, I understand Kant.
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Philip Leventhal
3 months ago
Hot off the press! AMERICAN LITERATURE'S WAR ON CRIME: NOVELS & THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF MASS INCARCERATION, by Theodore Martin. Use the coupon code MLA and save 30%!
tinyurl.com/482zmjsw
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