Emily Ogden

Chris Kraus’s autofictional crimes Is the American writer’s new book, The Four Spent the Day Together, a true-crime novel or a description of her own struggles?

I wrote about the new Chris Kraus for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for ...

as of today, direct from Verso pre-orders available! paperback is $14.97 right now www.versobooks.com/products/303...

!!! That would work!! Thank you!

I’m not free to share the context but these are notations, so it doesn’t really help anyway

Knowledge of this person’s handwriting suggests fautise, bantire, variations thereof—but none of the variations I can think of are words

Can anyone help me decipher the last word here? It reads, ‘Désagréable, mais pas _____’ ?

Yes, and even moreso, "google translate is seamlessly and invisibly generating messages it labels as "translations" that in fact are nothing of the kind"

I'm not trying to credit creativity here, at all--I agree with your skepticism about that. What I mean to point out is that this is a way--no doubt one of several-- that the translations can mislead. sort of like how Bard will invent plausible-sounding titles for texts that don't exist.

We used to have sussexes who were great foragers—the Orpingtons sort of need a leader but I’m hoping the Wyandotte will do that

Two lavender orpingtons and a silver laced Wyandotte. I’m ameraucana-curious but we’ve never had any

Oh that would be a dream!

Thanks, Stephen! Hope to talk to you about this one, too, one day!

Thank you!

It’s going to be an unhinged adventure

I have news!

From the beginning and throughout her career, her patients her patients were analyzed in rather unorthodox fashion. She sent her chauffeurs and splendid cars to bring them to Saint-Cloud for their ses-sions. Weather permitting, she conducted the hour in the garden and herself lay on a chaise longue behind the couch. Indoors or out, she crocheted while she listened. In later years, she would take along as many patients as possible when she left Paris for Saint-Tropez and Athens, thus becoming both hostess and analyst

How psychoanalyst and princess Marie Bonaparte conducted her analyses:

Brilliant op ed from incredibly brave teachers whose own jobs are on the chopping block & who have been pressured to remain silent. Please read & share widely. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/an-open-letter-from-faculty-at-west-virginia-university/

An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University - Boston Review The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.

Please read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.

No one knows in what manner he was born or how he came upon the earth...

The start of Marcel Schwob's Life of Empedocles:

If you've been following the crisis at WVU, where I'm an assistant prof of English, you may know that

1. I, along with many colleagues, will find out next month if we'll be laid off in May

2. WVU's lawyer said they're reading profs' social media. Hi.

here's a gift link to today's quite good WSJ article about WVU --

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Letter from the MLA to President Gee at WVU, noting how awful it is to eliminate language study at a state flagship university, especially for working class and first-gen students.

Folks are sharing this on another site, so here it is. It’s a photo of a pdf; we don’t have it up on the website yet. Letter from the MLA to president of WVU, where languages are on the chopping block.

Yes!

Cinnabars (a kind of chanterelle) and regular chanterelle

Great haul today

I was told there would be appetizers

‎Close Readings: Kristin Grogan on Lorine Niedecker ("Poet's Work") on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Close Readings, Ep Kristin Grogan on Lorine Niedecker ("Poet's Work") - Jul 3, 2023

I talked with the brilliant Kristin Grogan about Lorine Niedecker, condensed milk, and “Poet’s Work.” Find us here or (most) anywhere you get your podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-readings/id1657024670?i=1000619109055

What will my Internet personality be if I can't tell everyone about how I have a Twitter-famous hedgehog?