“I contain multitudes” stack

Day 7 of solo parenting a 3yo and a 4yo = I’ve thrown a picnic blanket over the couch where we’re eating takeout pizza while watching an animated movie about to Queen Elizabeth’s corgi.

🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...

This is a big deal for my institution: we're now tuition-free for families under $175K annual income, and families under $85K get a full ride altogether.

c'est moi

new romantasy dedicated bookshop is opening in Oxford today and 10/10, no notes

💕Summer reading 💕

Hey, Margaret Bates is a graduate student who's doing a study on romance book buying behaviors and would like your input, if you have a chance. forms.office.com/r/b6E8qJV8Tm

#mustread #sciencefiction #Studies #criticism #speculativefiction A new anthology of essays edited by Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, David M. Higgins, and @jordanscarroll.bsky.social out by MIT. Excellent #review by John Rieder, especially the last paragraph. lareviewofbooks.org/article/reac...

In Data-Driven Hollywood, Violaine Roussel examines the rise of Hollywood’s data and algorithm specialists and their growing influence on creative decisions. Out now! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Data #Sociology #Streaming

Can we overanalyze this ? Spotted in Child section of a dept. store

I’m reading “Without Consent” by Sarah Weinman about the legal history of laws against marital rape in the United States which begins in 1977. Checked when France outlawed marital rape and it was in…2026 🤡

Second attempt to get my French visa, second 8 hour round trip drive to closest consulate. lfggg, prayers up

Sad and shocked to learn of the passing of Anthony Glinoer. Devastating loss for the sociology of literature

🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

A very real, very scary thing

Bourdieu-heads, new issue of Practical Sense just dropped (newsletter of the Pierre Bourdieu Foundation) practicalsense.net/index.php/is...

Things that have already made academic research stop: - adjunctification - defunding (of, like, everything) - outright closure of depts and schools - censorship & attacks on academic freedom - obscene teaching and service loads

when i am stuck w/ writing, i feel sorry for myself, i nap, i eat dates, i window shop, i have sex, i run, i text my friends, i read fiction, i feel bad, i buy shoes. what i don’t do is surrender the privilege of being alive to a plagiarist machine owned by most evil least creative men on the planet

On sale at my local CVS…

New Romance : un genre qui transforme l’édition française… mais qui reste illégitime

what if he also became the last trillionaire tho😈

Delighted to share that I am now affiliated with the French research laboratory RiRa21 "Représenter, inventer la réalité du romantisme au XXI siècle" at L'Université de Montpellier Paul-Valery. rirra21.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/membres-p...

Stats du #passculture (sur abonnement). Les résultats en #litterature sont instructifs, tant sur les titres que sur les chiffres. Top 3 Littérature - « Lakestone » de Sarah Rivens (paru le 01/12/2023) : 37 000 réservations - « Seasons. Tome 1 Un automne pour te pardonner » (paru le 20/09/2023) […]

Had a great time last week as part of the 'dream team' panel (this was the official name I think) with @saraharens.bsky.social and @mbedecarre.bsky.social at the Men & Masculinities in Contemporary France conference in Bristol! I was explainining why micky houellebecq is a pie

New airport bookstore category just dropped

Had a blast trying to convince everyone that Beigbeder is a (dark?) romance novelist and soaking up @saraharens.bsky.social & @frasermcqueen.bsky.social ’s brilliance

british tings

Summer reading incoming

4 femmes ministres seulement sur 30 dans le nouveau gouvernement de Al Aminou Lô au #Sénégal. Je reposte ce texte de 2024 dans @theconversation.com theconversation.com/les-femmes-o... #Parité #Genre

Did a hardback book write this article?

In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

Looks like one of those terrifying 2050 #climate projection graphics, but no, that’s a short-term forecast for France until… May 29th.

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Partout en France, les libraires bricolent de nouveaux modèles pour survivre actualitte.com/article/1311...

Purchases were made in the Helsinki duty free shop

Flight 1 of 3 to get to Sweden for my dream conference. wearing cheetah print overalls so let’s hope they don’t lose my bag 😅

You guysssss I got a sabbatical grant! Will be a Franco-American Commission Scholar in the fall in Montpellier, France 😍🥹

Finals grades in

Turned in my book y’all! Now I go pit zebra print pants on and drink Campari spritzes with friends by the lake

a “fascist takeover of the collective imagination”

Going on leave next year and what I’m most looking forward to is not having to debate the merits of AI in my university committee meetings. On the record: it sucks, it is terrible, I hate it.

wut ze fuk?

1st Russian manicure let’s gooooo. stay tuned for results

Guilty as charged. c’est moi with my pic from 10 years ago pre 2 kids

Hey, pals in #18thc lit studies, this story is made for us, esp those of us who write about "forgers" like Thomas Chatterton & William Henry Ireland. 👋to @jacklynch000.bsky.social "As the genuine philology medal does not exist, his medal cannot be a forgery." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...