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Lawrence Summers Will Resign From Harvard After Epstein Revelations

Lawrence Summers Will Resign From Harvard After Epstein Revelations www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

As seen in Philly! CBB loved Wollstonecraft and the Shelleys loved him for it.

Eileen M. Hunt - Winter 2026: NEH Scholarly Editions Blog St. Botolph's- without- Bishopsgate parish church

New Wollstoneblog post! On Wollstonecraft and Keats’s baptisms, and nearby Spitalfields. sites.google.com/nd.edu/eilee...

Rachel, I have a theory that Taylor’s mourning dress in the Fortnight video was inspired by this painting by Caspar David Friedrich that I used for the cover.

As seen in the Wild in Heffer’s, Cambridge!

The new dual bicentennial edition of Shelley’s THE LAST MAN and THE JOURNAL OF SORROW out now in the UK from Oxford World’s Classics!!! global.oup.com/ukhe/product...

Column | ‘Wuthering Heights’ and the birth of the toxic boyfriend A new movie of “Wuthering Heights” by feminist director Emerald Fennell grapples with the Catherine and Heathcliff Problem. Their dysfunction is irresistible.

Excellent essay—primo example of top-notch pop lit film criticism—makes me want to re-read the book (one of my favorites from my youth) before I see the movie. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Thank you—US release is April or May. Sometimes books arrive early if you pre-order.

Publication day! And not too far off the bicentennial date of both The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow! global.oup.com/ukhe/product...

Ukrainian Olympian Says He’ll Race With Banned Helmet Honoring War Dead

Ukrainian Olympian Says He’ll Race With Banned Helmet Honoring War Dead www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...

‘Christian pastors declared Pikachu to be a demon’: how Pokémon went from moral panic to unifying global hit Nintendo’s monster-collecting franchise was pilloried as a ‘pestilential Ponzi scheme’ in the 90s. But as its celebrates its 30th birthday, it now stands as a powerful example of video games’ ability ...

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/f... my son just pulled a $150 card from a $60 box. Playing the stock market!

Democrats Push to Impeach and Investigate Noem

Democrats Push to Impeach and Investigate Noem www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Just finished 11/23/63 (the series) and thought it a quite poignant take on the dangers of desiring to change the past and the wisdom of approaching life through the bird’s-eye lens of philosophy of history instead. One of the few King shows that lives up to the novel!

The public execution of two peaceful, caring, public-minded US citizens by ICE in the streets of Minneapolis this month is the lowest my government has stooped in my lifetime. I can only pray for justice and hope the conscience of our country will recalibrate in the wake of these awful martyrdoms.

Portland, Maine, Feels Like a Small Town — And ICE Isn’t Welcome

Portland, Maine, Feels Like a Small Town — And ICE Isn’t Welcome www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

To paraphrase Taylor again, thank you for the lovely bouquet—I’m married to the hustle, and you don’t know the life of a showgirl, babe.

The woman who took wedding photos with her PhD certificate—there’s a truth to it. To paraphrase Taylor, people will let you down, but your PhD (ie, your education, Eras Tour, or other grand intellectual-artistic accomplishment) never will.

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Best I could do with Gemini. Think West End Girl meets TS Eliot at Margate. “I can connect nothing with nothing”.

How do I get a West End Girl meme of myself? Really love the original as well as the Brooklyn Beckham iteration! Also, it needs to be done for Taylor in her Father Figure video that I will be directing (thank you).

So many great lines in 11/23/63 the series: “The hardest thing about living in the past, is that everything you tell everybody will be a lie.” And my favorite bit of Kingian wisdom: “If you f@&$ with the past, the past will f&@$ with you.”

Survived my son’s first Pokemon trading card show! So much fun for the kids, so much stress for the moms! But, in good news, clearly Smith’s micro-markets of sympathy towards strangers are still operating in Midwestern America.

I think it is the 2016-just released on Netflix

Watching 11/23/63 on Netflix—quite good and seems to capture the pathos of the novel, one of my favorites by King.

A leather-bound edition of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll, ith gold embossed details on the cover.

'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll, opened up to a page showing an illustration of Alice and the Cheshire Cat

'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll, opened up to a page showing an illustration of Alice surrounded by playing cards

'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll, opened up to a page showing an illustration of three playing cards under the tree

A rare first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), annotated by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by John Tenniel, has been jointly acquired by Christ Church, Oxford and the Bodleian Libraries!

Read more: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/2026/jan/alice-acquisition

33-page book proposal — done!

My two best Christmas presents ever! An official signed 1989 era TS photo & my new edition of MWS’s ‘The Last Man & The Journal of Sorrow’ (in which I cite TS in the introduction). Both arrived today to honor 2026 (coincidentally bicentennial of TLM/JoS and wedding of TS)!

It’s just plain illegal. There is no justification in domestic or international law.

Merry Christmas Eve from northern Maine

After 29 hrs of travel by car, train, car, plane, bus & car again, we finally reached northern Maine: