@cforster.bsky.social some good stuff about the paper hussle in NYC during WW2. Made me think of you. E. Jolas even threatening to sue over a paper bait and switch 🤣

For friends waking up in America. Voilà a truly remarkable unpublished 1943 letter by William Carlos Williams to Yvan Goll on modernist American poetry and the importance of place to poetry. Truly worth 5 minutes of your time.

For friends waking up in America. Voilà a truly remarkable letter by William Carlos Williams to Yvan Goll on American poetry and the importance of place to poetry. Truly worth 5 minutes of your time.

Next week, Rosario Hubert of @trinitycollege.bsky.social at Yale!

"Poor old Ezra, who never wrote anything original in his life..." William Carlos Williams to Yvan Goll, Letter, July 1, 1943. Poest are so catty. 😂😂😂

Did the NYT just say that Mamdani is angry because he said he would do what he promised? What a bunch of clowns. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@mattseybold.bsky.social I just read your new AV blog post about CUNY stepping in for public ed-tech. 1) Bold, love it; 2) Lina Khan, who is in the transition team, might be into it. Anyone we know has an in with her? Maybe @moacir.com who's doing digital librarian type work for the DSA...

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

Daaang. The transition team is lit 🔥 He had me at Lina Khan, but then I looked at closely at the old- and new-guard strategy in the mix. www.transition2025.com?s=08

The correctest take

"And if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves." Damn. 💜

Yay!! Just woke up to the news. Congrats, NYC !! What a day! ❤️🫶🏼

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

To a large extent, @teenvogue.com's Politics section was doing the only dedicated progressive reporting on American higher education. While higher ed issues sometimes receive coverage in places like The Nation & The American Prospect, Teen Vogue treated campuses like a dedicated beat.

I would pay subscribe to whatever Lex and co. decide to do.

If you've never received SNAP benefits, you probably don't realize how low they are. We're a stingy nation that hates the poor. 👇🏽

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Yup. Big fan of Gunn for the reasons Matt cites.

Happy Halloween! Don't miss the October edition of #ReviewsinDH, part II of a Reviews in the Classroom issue from Hilary Havens' students at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Thanks to Hilary & Reviews in the Classroom editors Kalani Craig R.C. Miessler and Lu Wang! reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n10

This is SUCH great news!! Huzzah @jenbenka.bsky.social, Mellon, and all the other organizations involved in this venture! We appreciate you all so much. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

lol. for real.

You don't say. 😂 Now just make sure to represent the other side of the debate. We wouldn't want to be too partial.

The NBA poker game thingy hits differently when the whole federal government is running all the scams, and we the people are all fishes. See what happens when you make a mockery of the law? You make me sympathize with cheats at poker. Jesus.

SPOILER. Proof pages of my review of The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green to be published in Slavery & Abolition. Curious about the book? Join Toby, @elotroalex.bsky.social and myself at the #Slaveryarchive book club this SAT 2:00 PM EST to discuss the book. Register ⬇️ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Delighted that @elotroalex.bsky.social will deliver this lecture at UAL on 12 November. He will discuss the difficulties of speaking freely under and beyond fascism, through the lens of Aimé Césaire's play about the Haitian Revolution “… Et les chiens se taisaient” (“… And The Dogs Were Silent”).

Hard to not feel like we are living amid the death of the U.S. research university — for all its problems, a truly important institution. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions. Abstracts by February 2: www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.

Fave so far

As many other French editors were, Bernard Grasset was condemned for the crime of "national indignity." To excuse himself, he declared in 1948: "I published lies. And I lied because it was in my interest to lie." No one has ever been that honest before or after.

Join @araujohistorian.bsky.social and I, and the rest of the #slaveryarchive book club, 10 days from now, Oct. 25, for a conversation with Atlantic historian Toby Green, to discuss his new book The Heretic of Cacheu.

🚨🚨🚨 And THREE stood up! Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact. When we join together and fight back, WE WIN! No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent. LET’S GO! #DefendHigherEd @aaup-penn.bsky.social

Haven't been watching the playoffs live this year, so I saw the infamous double play only late last night while winding down. I agree with the Episcopalians here, end-of-times shit.

Re-reading Kari Kraus's essay "Conjectural Criticism: Computing Past and Future Texts" from 2009. Imho, still one of the best essays ever published in DHQ. Also a fascinating read in light of LLMs and the fate of textuality.

I started the DH Slack 10 years ago today 🎉 3.8k legit DHer/DH-interested folks joined; we became a regular venue for asking questions & sharing opportunities+research; usually have several hundred folks active/week (more during DH conferences); 160k+ posts. Anyone curious about DH can join:

By this time next year, if the cease-fire holds and rebuilding is underway, it might be time to return all the digital cultural heritage our small team data rescued and put in cold storage before Gaza was destroyed. Nothing would give my life more meaning for a while... granitos de arena.

New issue of my newsletter: “The Library’s New Entryway” — An interface that combines the advantages of the traditional index with the power of LLMs is the path forward newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

Sesame Street honors Indigenous Peoples Day as Zach McClarnon discusses his family culture and traditions.

Never forget.

Current intellectual toy: Reading partial reprints in Tropiques through the lens of a) the role of literary excerpts in colonial textbooks, b) the censorship memos of Vichy's "service d'information" and, c) the humble holdings of Martinican personal and public libraries in 1941. What a nerd. 🤓

Reminds me of a certain conversation we have about abortion vs. taking care of actual living children...

Moist owlettes. 🪶

In awe. 💙💜🤍

@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."

RIP Nobel Peace prize. Hope you get to hangout with the Literature prize in prize heaven. You didn't have to go out like that.

Let’s Streisand effect this research!

My heart is with Gaza today. Loving all these images of joy.

Our colleague Mark Bray and his family were mysteriously stopped at the gate on their way to Spain. Let's keep an eye out on this flight out to safer lands today. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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