become unshelveable

Will someone please let us know the exact Goldilocks magic dollar amount that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social would have to make before Cuomo and Adams will agree to let us have socialism?

I reviewed @dannybwright.bsky.social “Grounds of the Novel” @stanfordpress.bsky.social for Genre. I admire the ambition and range of inquiry but I have grave doubts about the scholarship and argument. Hopefully a productive debate for researchers in novel theory! read.dukeupress.edu/genre/articl...

My essay on “Adam Bede,” Bible interpretation, and tragedy is out in rhe new issue of ELH muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

My book exists! Thanks to @cornellupress.bsky.social for all work in publishing and @annakornbluh.bsky.social for perceptive blurb

“Taylor Swift, to me, is at the level of the toilet bowl. By which I mean that she should by all means be studied, with the greatest rigor, as an epochal achievement of modernity.”

I wrote about Raymond Williams and his theory of the English novel

Essay on religious hermeneutics in “Adam Bede” coming out next year in ELH, started working on this in 2019