I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

Thrilled to be in the latest @newohioreview.bsky.social alongside so much powerful, thoughtful work. Really honored to appear alongside these artists. Anyway, here’s a holiday story. Hope your holidays go better than this one. newohioreview.org/2025/11/23/t...

I first saw and read Stoppard’s work my first year of college. For me, he has always been part of the canon, but also always working and generating new, surprising theater. I’ll miss having new Stoppard plays.

It’s one bookstore, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars? www.bookmoonbooks.com

At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.

bay area friends, this will be so lovely—a party 12/3 raising funds for @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social & @litquake.org, two beloved organizations hit hard by NEA & NEH cuts hosted by daniel handler, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, jonathan escoffery, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, & @alexismadrigal.bsky.social

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control. by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers

I’m 250 paid subscribers away from a major goal. Think we can get there tonight? www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade

pretty much beyond question that Larry Summers led the charge against Claudine Gay because he is personally a vitriolic misogynist and racist www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

Heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing @scottedelman.bsky.social. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨ Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done: www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...

Larry Summers is too dumb and smug to grasp he’s not always the smartest person in the room despite spending decades at … Harvard, a place where everyone, in every room, knows *something* you don’t and understands *something* better than you ever will. Larry Summers will stay dumb forever.

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

I think the people who's brains are so broke on nothing matters considering the last 3 weeks or so really need to take some deep breaths and maybe just stop being online for like a year.

The best things in life Never show up in the metrics

Re: Epstein’s emails

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️

Can generative “AI” do what Joyce Carol Oates can do? I think the definitive experiment just got run.

Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.

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...

He's going to ban her and then she is, for better or worse, going to come here

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

2/2 You think Dem voters would have turned out in the numbers, and with the enthusiasm, they did JUST FIVE DAYS AGO if they thought the party was going cave like this? Jesus

Listening to these pathetic rationalizations from King, Hassan, Shaheen, whoever else they have queued up. Disappointed that they're not having windup speech by Sen. Neville Chamberlain.

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

Fascism does not, and never has, made the trains run on time. They can't get planes to run on time, either.

It's pronounced "Doubt That."

Hey, @cornellwriter.bsky.social, did you see yourself quoted in the Halifax Examiner? www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

As a teen or young adult in the 1990s you had constant encounters with people in their 50s-80s who were combatants, victims or perpetrators during catastrophes of the mid-20th century That direct link to realities of Nazism and other forms of oppression such as Stalinism or colonialism is now gone

lololololol NOT ALL VAMPIRES! (this hilarious brilliance from @jamesjmarino.bsky.social 😎)

Charles III: “I don’t want to see him. I don’t want to hear him. I want two days’ warning before he sees our mother.” “But, Your Majesty, your mother has been deceased for years.” Charles: “I know.” (Glares meaningfully)

Breaking: the former Prince Andrew currently seated in a rowboat, saying Hail Marys over a fishhook.

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown. Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

“He called her his aunt and she’s actually his dad’s cousin” = our oppo researchers really got nothing on this guy.

KING … But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son⁠—

An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.

Set up a recurring donation, if you can—even small amounts help. Ask your employers if they are willing to do a matching donation

I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.

“The Ghost Lyrics” by @jamesjmarino.bsky.social (Summer ‘25) is “an exploration of inspiration, looking back, and moving forward, and it’s well worth spending some time with.”

Then Charles I said, “If Parliament doesn’t meet, I can just rule by myself.” #ShipMoneyBaby

"Apparently, in PC America, a 'safe space' is one in which you aren’t stoned to death in the town square in order to increase the harvest yield. Well, count me out."

We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...