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The Book of Elsewhere is quite odd.

Look, what I'm saying is, it isn't a genre or a tradition... it's a, um, tendency. Totally different thing.

The moral of the story is obviously that competitive markets are bad for the arts.

There are a zillion markdown editors out there; sadly, only a handful bother to properly implement footnotes.

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

it's officially out! :)

Anyone out there have a PDF of Joshua Clover's "The Genealogical Avant-Garde" (2014) handy?

I assume the only authentic way to read Transcript is on one’s phone.

Do you believe that this world I have described—in which people no longer grossly misread "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"—might exist? No? Then let me describe one more thing.

No need for AI here. I cognitively surrendered many, many years ago. 🤪

bruh www.cia.gov/resources/cs...

"The most persuasive and engaging account I’ve 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 @aarthivadde.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

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?

The most shocking thing about Home Alone is that the family gets through airport security in under 45 minutes for an international flight.

Reclaiming "it's not an x—it's a y" from the robots.

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.

Look, if you’re 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.

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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On this day, I found myself forced (no choice folks) to use the word "thinkfluencer" in a sentence. It had to be done—really!—but I still feel deeply ashamed.

Guess it didn’t have legs

Experiencing an existential crisis because I am not sure if I should capitalize Elves, Orcs, and Goblins when writing about Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

Ultimately, I use the word "ultimately" far too often in my writing, and ultimately as a substitute for thought.

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...

If only Homer had sung about the joy of Achilles.

Finally, I understand Kant.

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 @columbiaup.bsky.social

What would you say is the best Marxist/materialist writing on the short story as a specifically modern form? I have a few leads already, but I am finding the form to be somewhat undertheorized compared to, say, the novel.

CALL FOR PITCHES @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not. Details below!

What a forecast.

"So sorry guys. We were *just about to* put your check in the mail, but we were sorta designated a 'Supply-Chain Risk to National Security' and, eh, went out of business!"

["Let Them Fight" Meme]

I have very fond memories of reading Hyperion.

Please do come to our ACLA session on Conspiracism. I'll be presenting on the comic book series, *The Department of Truth*, and revealing all about the secret history of U.S. Unless They get to me first.

🚨 If you're in Montreal for #ACLA, come see this outstanding seminar! On Saturday at 4:00, I'll be talking about the secondary school's fascination with dystopia in a paper called "The Individual vs. Society: Doublethinking High School English"!

If the AI ed-tech boom gives us the resources we need to permanently ban Canvas/ELMS, I'm all for it.

Nice! DoT is now a staple of most of my comics courses: bsky.app/profile/gipp...

Please do come to our ACLA session on Conspiracism. I'll be presenting on the comic book series, *The Department of Truth*, and revealing all about the secret history of U.S. Unless They get to me first.

Part 4, “Comics History,” contextualizes Spiegelman’s work within cultural and political discourses. For instance: Cara Koehler places Spiegelman’s work within the history of immigration comics, and Konstantinou examines Spiegelman’s comics for kids. 10/10

“Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman” edited by Georgiana Banita and Lee Konstantinou won the edited book prize from the Comics Studies Society. It’s the first anthology to consider the breadth of Spiegelman’s multifaceted career as a cartoonist, historian, editor, and educator. 1/10

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social spotlights @lkonstan.bsky.social and Georgiana Banita's anthology "Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman," published by @upmississippi.bsky.social! #ComicsStudies

Now they tell me!

I wonder, if added it all up, how many days of my life have been spent reflexively—and often unnecessarily—pressing Command+S as I type.

Finished reading this & (to state the obvious) it's highly recommended. The discussion of theme is especially valuable. I also v. much enjoy the image of high school English as the separated fraternal twin of university literary studies.

Great review that makes me want to read J. Rosen‘s book

As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵 academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

My book is now available for pre-order!