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Jordan Alexander Stein

@jordanstein.bsky.social

Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone

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Really loved this one

30.06.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

!!! Miss you and hope we can connect before too long!

15.06.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

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Hello from the archives!

12.06.2025 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Another good book day!

05.06.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good book day

30.05.2025 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Little known fact: Mary, the character played by Parker Posey in the 1995 indie film "Party Girl," was actually based on me in college

21.04.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

If astrology isn’t real, why does Sarah Michelle Gellar share a birthday with Frederic Jameson?

14.04.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Big ups to @jordanstein.bsky.social for stopping by my class to talk about Nina Simone! He's got a whole ass book about her: www.dukeupress.edu/fantasies-of...

25.03.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🀩🀩

20.03.2025 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The British Library’s incredibly rare and totally pristine copy of the complete 1875 French translation of Marx’s Capital in quarto was personally donated by the author, and while I am not 100% sure what I mean by it, I feel compelled to say: it could always be like this

13.03.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I'd love to be added as well

11.03.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

92nd! I am bad at math!

22.02.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Nina Simone: To Love Somebody (Live in Antibes, 1969)
YouTube video by Nina Simone Nina Simone: To Love Somebody (Live in Antibes, 1969)

Happy 82nd birthday, Nina Simone!

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Nina Simone β€” Tap Magazine A biographer’s fantasy

Short essay adapted from "Fantasies of Nina Simone" is up at The American Psychoanalyst

tapmagazine.org/all-articles...

17.02.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@natewolff.bsky.social

15.02.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Contrary to popular supposition, Deleuze and Guattari were not a couple. It was more of a schizuationship

13.02.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Happy birthday, Harriet Jacobs!

Wow did you call it or what

11.02.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To be clear about what I’m saying here: ignorance isn’t shameful but arrogance is

07.02.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Love it when you take on the impossible

07.02.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When we were in grad school, I recall that he in all sincerity wrote a seminar paper whose argument turned the "fact" that gay men cannot look at each other's faces when they have sex

07.02.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

Please keep the β€œHow could we have known!” crowd in your thoughts today

05.02.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This June at the American Antiquarian Society: β€œSex, Gender, and Print”: The 2025 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, taught by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Alexander Stein.

Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars.

Link in comments.

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Join us!

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Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1878)

13.01.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œHow did your first day back go?”

06.01.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you even lift up the downtrodden masses, bro?

02.01.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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E.M. Forster, new year resolutions, 31 December 1904

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A Christmas wreath with a picture of Aretha in the center, at Jewel of the South

A Christmas wreath with a picture of Aretha in the center, at Jewel of the South

It's a Wreathra

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