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  1. CW: tw: David Foster Wallace & Samuel Johnson, satire and existentialist self-harm

    An unexpectedly interesting compare and contrast: Samuel Johnson & David Foster Wallace.

    They go a little hard on Wallace for having committed suicide, but it is a Divinity school podcast after all so... not surprising and there is a valid insight there: Going easy on yourself means going easy on others, compassion is born of faith, hope and charity. How to makes such old platitudes fresh again though? Satire, for starters. See also: Sun Ra, Devo, The Residents.

    Ministry of Ideas: Genealogies of Modernity Episode 8: The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me.
    ministryofideas.org/enemy-of-m

    #DavidFosterWallace #SamuelJohnson #MinistryOfIdeas #FaithHopeCharity #Satire #LitCrit

  2. Ah, shit. RIP Fredric Jameson.

    nytimes.com/2024/09/23/books/f

    I did not usually agree with him—as a postgrad, one of my professors jokingly called me a “postmodern hardliner”—but still surprisingly often. He was eloquent and insightful and often brilliant. It was always a pleasure to read him, and think really hard about what he had to say. He will be missed.

    #literature #litcrit

  3. #JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress's #July4th sale ends Monday. If you want some great #books about #health and #wellness, #litcrit, et al., check out the website. H4JUL24 is the discount code that will give you 40% off all #books with free shipping on order over $75. Please consider purchasing the #memoir I wrote with #neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller. It's about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's, a rare form of #dementia. It's also about #grief, #love, & #neurology.

    #EndAlz

    weinsteinandmiller.com

  4. #JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress's #July4th sale ends Monday so if you're looking for great #books about #health & #wellness, #litcrit, et al., check out the website. H4JUL24 is the discount code that provides 40% off all #books w/free shipping on orders over $75. Please consider purchasing the #memoir I wrote with #neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller. It's about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's, a rare form of #dementia. It's also about #grief, #love, and #neurology.

    #EndAlz

    weinsteinandmiller.com

  5. Nice! Good to see it back in print. Spotted it in my neighborhood bookstore.


  6. Hopefully, if the world is good, there is a #Litcrit PhD candidate out there somewhere working on “Voice in the age of LLM”

  7. I've spent the last two days reading and rereading Ishion Hutchinson's brand new book, a conversation with David Jones and British history. A book about the West Indian soldiers in WW1, intertwined with a tale of West Indian boyhood in the 1990s, this is the third volume of poetry by one of the best and most important poets of our time.

    instagram.com/p/C0REaitok9M/

    #literature #IshionHutchinson #PostcolonialStudies #litcrit

  8. I've spent the last two days reading and rereading Ishion Hutchinson's brand new book, a conversation with David Jones and British history. A book about the West Indian soldiers in WW1, intertwined with a tale of West Indian boyhood in the 1990s, this is the third volume of poetry by one of the best and most important poets of our time.

    instagram.com/p/C0REaitok9M/

    #literature #IshionHutchinson #PostcolonialStudies #litcrit

  9. I've spent the last two days reading and rereading Ishion Hutchinson's brand new book, a conversation with David Jones and British history. A book about the West Indian soldiers in WW1, intertwined with a tale of West Indian boyhood in the 1990s, this is the third volume of poetry by one of the best and most important poets of our time.

    instagram.com/p/C0REaitok9M/

    #literature #IshionHutchinson #PostcolonialStudies #litcrit

  10. Addendum:

    Sometimes the curtains are just fucking blue.

    #LitCrit

  11. #otd in 1849, Sarah Orne Jewett was born. If you liked Ursula K. LeGuin's "Always Coming Home" (which is seemingly currently being reprinted everywhere) you should have a look at Jewett's "Country of Pointed Firs" which LeGuin admired.

    #ursulakleguin #literature #litcrit

  12. > ... though the enacted subject is a sad one, the act of performing it is joyous because it leads the poet to true equivalents of his feeling. In art a true equivalence (no matter of what) is always a joyous capture.
    #JohnCiardi in #HowDoesAPoemMean made me think of #Camus in #TheRebel on #DespairingLiterature, that there can not be a #LiteratureOfDespair, We read for #JoyousCapture, I guess. #Poetry #Poem #LitCrit

  13. You shouldn't try to read Thomas Wolfe while you're young and optimistic. You'll just set the books aside, calling them a vast emission of wordy, self-absorbed emotionalism. Instead, wait until you're in your fifties or later. Read his work then, and relish the satisfaction of having been right the first time.

    #litcrit #heresy #tomWolfePhooey
    #goHomewardAngelYoureDrunk

  14. I finished the Debbie Harry Memoir audiobook. It was very good. #litCrit

  15. New publication - Uneven Futures: Strategies, Community Survival, Speculative Fiction - Edited by Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes and Gerry Canavan - of possible interest - will provide some salient #hashtags #UnevenFutures #strategies #community #communitysurvival #speculativefiction #afrofuturism
    #LatinX #LiteraryCriticism #LitCrit #criticism #politicalorganizing #culture @themitpress

    bit.ly/3Xxocvz

  16. New publication - Uneven Futures: Strategies, Community Survival, Speculative Fiction - Edited by Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes and Gerry Canavan - of possible interest - will provide some salient
    @themitpress

    bit.ly/3Xxocvz

  17. New publication - Uneven Futures: Strategies, Community Survival, Speculative Fiction - Edited by Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes and Gerry Canavan - of possible interest - will provide some salient #hashtags #UnevenFutures #strategies #community #communitysurvival #speculativefiction #afrofuturism
    #LatinX #LiteraryCriticism #LitCrit #criticism #politicalorganizing #culture @themitpress

    bit.ly/3Xxocvz

  18. New publication - Uneven Futures: Strategies, Community Survival, Speculative Fiction - Edited by Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes and Gerry Canavan - of possible interest - will provide some salient #hashtags #UnevenFutures #strategies #community #communitysurvival #speculativefiction #afrofuturism
    #LatinX #LiteraryCriticism #LitCrit #criticism #politicalorganizing #culture @themitpress

    bit.ly/3Xxocvz

  19. Description on a book I'm about to shelve:

    "the essays and short fiction published in the Overland Monthly often portrayed the American West as a civilized evolution of, and not a savage regression from, eastern bourgeois modernity and democracy"

    🔥 #ShelvingThoughts #ouch #LitCrit #AmericanLit

  20. Description on a book I'm about to shelve:

    "the essays and short fiction published in the Overland Monthly often portrayed the American West as a civilized evolution of, and not a savage regression from, eastern bourgeois modernity and democracy"

    🔥 #ShelvingThoughts #ouch #LitCrit #AmericanLit

  21. #introduction
    I am here for people and things they do across #humanities in #litstudies #modernism #avantgarde #bookhistory #manuscript #textual #scholarship #research #archive & latest #publishing of #literature #fiction #nonfiction #poetry #criticism #litcrit #letters #arts #architecture #anthropology
    Not much of a talker, I may post on things I read or events I go, boost a cfp, and respond to a joke with a joke.
    I no longer believe there is such thing as apolitical & I #StandWithUkraine

  22. CW: Rape, rape in fiction, dubious consent, romance novels, historical romance

    Second part of Restorative Romance’s very thoughtful critique series on rape, fiction, law, and narratives of history and progress: restorativeromance.substack.co

    #AmReadingRomance #RomanceCritique #LitCrit #HistoricalRomance #RomanceNovels #RomanceHistory

  23. CW: Rape, rape in fiction, dubious consent, romance novels, historical romance

    Second part of Restorative Romance’s very thoughtful critique series on rape, fiction, law, and narratives of history and progress: restorativeromance.substack.co

    #AmReadingRomance #RomanceCritique #LitCrit #HistoricalRomance #RomanceNovels #RomanceHistory

  24. CW: Rape, rape in fiction, dubious consent, romance novels, historical romance

    Second part of Restorative Romance’s very thoughtful critique series on rape, fiction, law, and narratives of history and progress: restorativeromance.substack.co

    #AmReadingRomance #RomanceCritique #LitCrit #HistoricalRomance #RomanceNovels #RomanceHistory

  25. CW: Rape, rape in fiction, dubious consent, romance novels, historical romance

    Second part of Restorative Romance’s very thoughtful critique series on rape, fiction, law, and narratives of history and progress: restorativeromance.substack.co

    #AmReadingRomance #RomanceCritique #LitCrit #HistoricalRomance #RomanceNovels #RomanceHistory

  26. CW: Rape, rape in fiction, dubious consent, romance novels, historical romance

    Second part of Restorative Romance’s very thoughtful critique series on rape, fiction, law, and narratives of history and progress: restorativeromance.substack.co

    #AmReadingRomance #RomanceCritique #LitCrit #HistoricalRomance #RomanceNovels #RomanceHistory

  27. Reading R.F. Kuang's "Babel" with Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House and there's clearly a renaissance of the dark academia genre written by women right now. Last one was in the early Oughts. In between there's a bunch of books written by men, but there's such a stark difference between dark academia written by men and the same themes written by women that I'm stunned there isn't a big essay on this difference yet. #lit #litsci #litcrit