More details to come but… 🎉🎉 I just learned that my book has won the first ever Biennial Book Prize from MELUS, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States! I’m over the moon! 🎉🎉 cup.columbia.edu/book/writing...

The first question I always ask students when meeting about AI use is "are you a big reader?" And if they say yes, we talk about their favorite books for a while. It helps me unravel that part of the mess

boo-BLAY

laughing at these whiny freaks — merry christmas to the haters & losers 🎄

I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.

This Publishers Weekly article about protests at the Poetry Foundation, including layoffs & changes in PF programming, is so strange. Because this shift is so important to poets, to readers, & to the field, here's a 🧵 about how we got here: tinyurl.com/326xy2tm

The Shining on IMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wake Up Dead Man was great and I was HOOTING when Bridget Everett came on screen

New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years

*sits backward on chair* Let me tell you kids about another Carpenter who a lot of people criticized

Nothing makes me unsubscribe from a podcast quite like finding out that you needed an AI assistant’s help to know to visit “Old San Juan” during your trip to San Juan

probably this is the opposite of “news” but Snotty Nose Rez Kids are AMAZING live

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

official beginning of the holiday season and it's time to revisit Richard E. Grant's Christmas decorations and his garden sculpture of Barbra Streisand's head www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUGV...

even when AI is surveying reputable sources, we shouldn't forget that summarizing and synthesizing are interpretive activities that involve selecting what is most significant or salient to ongoing discussions. even if AI were unbiased, this is creative work that we should be doing.

casaubon as a lovecraft protagonist who never actually encounters the blasphemous horrors

been enjoying Middlemarch as a novel about why you shouldn’t marry H.P. Lovecraft

the way that RFK felt about Olivia Nuzzi is the way that I feel about Edamame Power

I’m open to being the Woah Vicky for BlueSky

*beats the "Reunite Craig and Green for a CHARADE style caper flick* drum once again*

Just a reminder that the deadline for abstracts for this FREE, ONLINE, GRAD STUDENT WORKSHOP is a little less than two weeks away!

There’s a lot to be worried about and many reasons to be sad, yes, but in just 5 months and 3 days we will find out exactly how Willy Wonka became Willy Wonka

everything on Tubi feels like it was made to be recommended by a middleschool friend’s unsavory older brother

This Saturday at 7 pm, two @columbiaup.bsky.social authors, Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan discuss their extraordinary new books, POETRY IN GENERAL and STITCH, UNSTITCH: in conversation w/ Christopher Nealon at @redemmas.org! bit.ly/3LAvRYz @keegancf.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social

you can just say “Harvard”

hello Ottawa! I am giving this talk tomorrow please come! + thank you @kqandrews.bsky.social for inviting me!

This seems hard to believe…given that Blackstone Inc. is only 40, KKR is 49, & Bain Capital is 41.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

I love this by Peter Coviello (former chair of Africana Studies at yes, Bowdoin). Very smart AND very funny. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present seeks applications for the next editor(s)-in-chief of the award-winning ASAP/Journal. Please see more information below! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

free tip to other college teachers — ChatGPT seems to really struggle with the question “Why might this approach to this topic be interesting to someone who is not you?”

check it out

me at 20y/o: this guy is the best rapper alive

I have been hesitant to wade into the “problems with BlueSky” conversations but this should be getting wayyyy more burn

I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.

when these hit Grailed I am going to financially ruin myself

Originally published in 1980, Ronald M. Schernikau’s “smalltownnovella” is finally available in English via @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social, translated by Lucy Jones. In this excerpt from the afterword, Ben Miller writes on craft, politics, and lowercase text.

We’re joyscrolling!!!!!!!!!!

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

I'm mad. Please put in the newspaper that I'm mad.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Don’t miss the feminist poetics event of the year!

thanks to @matthiasellis.com for suggesting Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Opus“ as work music on a recent pod — spent all weekend writing to it. Serious and poignant! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OAh...

her kid got a bloody nose because due to Fall Back he was so tired and bumping into things because he got an extra hour of sleep 👍

bless

dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani? great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com