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In time for April Fool's Day, which may be apt, my article on Gothic fiction and #18thc hoaxing has appeared in Novel, in a banger of an issue on Belief in Fiction, co-ed by @danielhack.bsky.social & Rachel Ablow. Take a look at this exciting t.o.c. I'm grateful to be in such great company.

I'm thrilled that this is now in the world: a special issue of NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, guest-edited by Rachel Ablow and me, on "Belief in Fiction." Wherein we are joined by a dream team of contributors: Colin Jager, Tim Bewes, Deidre Lynch, Ian Duncan, Ayelet Ben-Yishai, and Amy Hollywood.

I am very glad to have been the occasion of this new series for C21 Literature. Huge thanks to Alex Houen, Leonid Bilmes, Laura A. Zander, and Adam Kelly for their engagements with Free Indirect, and to Denise Wong and Oli Haslam for the invitation to respond.

New issue of Distinktion is out! With a fantastic special section on Lukács and the Critique of Capitalism, including papers by Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social, Timothy Bewes and Arthur Bueno, www.tandfonline.com/toc/rdis20/c...

good morning to Michael Moore, who wrote an open letter actually worth reading "Now, please, let’s make sure you win by winning the state of Michigan! Let our Arab+Muslim neighbors hear that you are with them in standing for peace + for creating a new way." www.michaelmoore.com/p/my-plea-to...

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory has published a selection of pieces on Georg Lukács, including mine on Lukács and James Baldwin (@100). Thanks to @arthurbueno.bsky.social, Simon Gurisch, and Cillian Ó Fathaigh. Read here for free: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZGM3W...

When one publishes a book, one longs to be reviewed by scholars of the stature of @michaellucey.bsky.social. Thank you, Genre @dukepress.bsky.social, for the opportunity to respond. “Secondary Utterances: A Response to Michael Lucey” is available now. doi.org/10.1215/0016...

1/5 After three years of editing, annotating, headnote writing, and permissions getting, it is completely thrilling to hold a physical copy of Vol. F of The Norton Anthology of English Literature in my hands! A thread on its new features:

I'm looking forward to talking with Grant Farred, Jack Dudley, Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Pratistha Bhattarai and Matthew Mutter about Coetzee's The Pole at MLA -- in 40 minutes! A Just in Time session. mla.confex.com/mla/2024/mee...

For the launch of its online forum, differences has published a short essay that began life as a contribution to Muriel Spark @ 101, at Harvard's Novel Theory seminar, hosted by @drbibliomane.bsky.social. Thank you to two extraordinary academic communities.