Another syllabus question: what are your favorite (ideally short) books that use research and/or archival materials in interesting ways? Any genre, the weirder the better ❤️‍🔥

Ok friends, help me out with a syllabus question. So I’m reimagining “bibliography & research methods,” a mixed grad/undergrad research practicum, for our current moment, which means that alongside research praxis we’ll discuss a series of readings on AI, epistemicide, &c.

Something we don’t talk about enough is how much the modern Anne Hathaway’s husband looks like a reincarnation of Shakespeare

when you see ooo, you think a. out of office b. object-oriented ontology c. other

including the word fuccboi in every book proposal is the oulipian constraint of my life

I picked up THE DARCY MYTH, by @rachelfeder.bsky.social, randomly off my local library's Austen birthday display on Friday, and let me tell you, I had devoured it by Sunday night. As someone who has loved, and written about loving, monster characters, wow. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730651...

2025 has been an extremely slow writing year due to Family Stuff, but I'm 2026 I'm determined to finish both my historical horror novel (tentatively titled The Desecration) and my dystopian Dorian Gray retelling with amazing co-author @rachelfeder.bsky.social. I also want to write more poetry.

Not NCAR, no

scared of my own manuscript 😱 @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social @mariaabrams.bsky.social @cannibalghosts.bsky.social et al plz advise

Hi friends, @nupress.bsky.social books are 50% off right now with code NEWYEAR, meaning that if one wanted to preorder my Gothic novella for $10, one could ❤️‍🔥 nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948030...

Stephanie Insley Hershinow surveys recent Austen-related works on Jane Austen's 250th birthday: "Austen offers endless opportunity for examination and reexamination; still, it might be fair to ask what more one can say about our dear Jane." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/happy-birthday-jane/

Excited about this! 🦄

We got a blurb! ✨🌸✨ @devingarofalo.bsky.social @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social @rondameg.bsky.social @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social @johannawinant.bsky.social @glavey.bsky.social @carallewis.bsky.social @ria4983.bsky.social @erinspampinato.bsky.social @rachelfeder.bsky.social

OutKast’s ‘y’all don’t wanna hear me, you just want to dance’ is up there with Brontë’s ‘reader, I married him’ in my opinion

illegal for me to read my own writing, is this anything

You should write weird, human stuff as a fuck-you to AI and the awful world we live in, yes, but also because you will be changed and your life will be changed through allowing yourself to be vulnerable and uncomfortable in your art.

tomorrow! how to strategize faculty power in technofeudal times!

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

An advent calendar for word count, is this anything? #acadecawriteathon

I remember learning in a zoology course in college that human creativity exploded when we first developed language. Once we could talk to each other, so much became possible. Anyway, you don’t need a chatbot! You can just chat with another human; that’s kind of the whole point.

i organized too close to the sun and now i can’t find anything

We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all—now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back—an exit, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death.

Words, words. They’re all we have to go on.

What a great headline

Reader: ah, finally the pay off has arrived! The romantic proposal that will make waiting through all that yearning worth it! Jane Austen: Lord Leadhead finally proposed to Miss Swann and saved her from a life of poverty. No I shall not be showing you the proposal, I am sick of talking about them.

You know, Jane Austen clearly found most people really annoying, which is why her books all ended with her annoyedly telling us “look some of these people got married, some died, some were miserable, some were happy, but most importantly THE END.”

7 years old now and I just discovered it has a whopping 5 reviews on Goodreads, which freaked me out. But in the interest of emphasizing that shelf life is real: it was just this year cited in a CFP for a panel about generous modernisms. 🎁 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

You can just text me & I’ll confidently provide misinformation 💕

Don’t ask ChatGPT cuz:

Felt like a theory of the Gothic, might delete later

That feeling when u r telling a very long praying mantis story and u r beginning to suspect that the other moms at the playground are not that interested in your praying mantis story

Normalize including the poet’s name in the poem the way Jason Derulo does it

the feminine urge to write a slim volume re: what romanticism can teach us about the present moment

I had a great conversation about this phenomenon with some sociologists at ASA once. A colleague took me to task for failing to see how they KNOW the reference. They aren’t misreading literary references — they are wielding them to demonstrate their power to shape our ethics.

Project Prometheus?! Is Mary Shelley writing this timeline?!

Top 5 movie genres are: we shouldn’t be together too bad we’re better than everyone 90s house party hijinx woman staring out of window reproductive justice but patrick swayze dances postcolonial theory, beautifully animated

Help I wrote a scary scene and now I need to lie down

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

I am manifesting a movie adaptation of THIS IS MY BODY starring Kristen Stewart

In impossible nonsense: I'd like to learn to do a respectable axel. In impossible nonsense I pretend isn't impossible: I'd like to write an Oscar-winning screen play about my great-grandmother's life. Tbh the axel is far more likely. But the 1930s-esque silk dress I'd wear to the Oscars is divine.

It’s 11/11, let’s manifest impossible nonsense! I’ll go first: I’d like to write the libretto for the Third Eye Blind jukebox musical 🧡

All my love and solidarity to Quirk Books Union. The publishing industry has no future without unions, and I'm so proud that we were part of the effort to unionize publishing.

My heart 💓💓💓

Sudden craving for one of those 90s dessert carts. Like yes please show me an example of the crème brûlée

hilary duff released a new song today and my friend was like god i love living in mamdani’s america

Hope is a fuel. Use it to burn down something terrible.

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you: