Dan Sinykin

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Program for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, with a large slate of speakers from the volume.

On Friday, November 7, I'm hosting a symposium at Emory for the launch of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, which I edited with @johannawinant.bsky.social. If you plan on attending, sign up for the eventbrite—hoping to get a rough gauge for attendance www.eventbrite.com/e/close-read...

yes, yes, do it. it sounds like you've got opinions. thoughts.

Dave, I hope you review Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century

Using ChatGPT

meaning IS intention

“Shakespeare’s” plays were authored by Sir Francis Bacon, as revealed to me in a complex cypher contained within the plays.

Here's a podcast where two guys read every Kurt Vonnegut novel and talk about them endlessly, in case you were worried this opinion wasn't sourced in solid facts gradschoolvonnegut.libsyn.com/0-grad-schoo...

[in front of class, squeezing septum for high nasal pitch]: I prefer free indirect *style*

"free indirect discourse" is an absolutely terrible phrase to describe one of the most important features of prose fiction and we should have found a new term decades ago

I believe this is the first time this judgment has ever been uttered

“The best American novelist of the later 20th century was Gore Vidal” is a statement I am making now to the internet without actually considering it first

my wife with big fiction and close reading for the twenty-first century at greenlight books

I did an mfa in fiction writing with a lot of men who had never read Jane Austen and weren’t even embarrassed about that and I had no respect for them

Assistant Professor of English: Creative Writing Tenure Track job with Grinnell College | 2000443 Research and teaching interests might include: screenwriting/tv writing, memoir, lyric essay, narrative journalism, graphic storytelling.

Job Alert! Tenure-track, Creative Non-Fiction (broadly conceived), Grinnell College. joblist.mla.org/job/2000443/...

I need to read that ASAP. Lesser Ruins was my first Haber.

Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers "The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

The Chair Company. Best TV since the second season of The Rehearsal.

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Mark Haber's Lesser Ruins

muffuletta

The Long Goodbye

pastrami on rye

Sheet-Pan Turmeric Chicken and Crispy Rice Recipe A layer of crunchy, golden rice at the bottom of a pan is revered across many cultures, be it a Persian tahdig, Korean nurungji or Spanish socarrat, and you can get a similar result by baking oiled ri...

eating leftovers of this dish and my god it's so good. it's reminiscent of my favorite lao dish, nam khao: herby, sticky, crunchy, meat fatty cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025...

Every Discourse on this site is evidence of how it's not good to treat K-12 history education the way this country has.

i only have one parasocial relationship but it's with tim robinson

disgusting

furious to learn it doesn't

the audiobook for Solenoid should have read all 7 pages of the word “help!”

hideous little malformed cub in the bookstore at o’hare.

left a hideous little malformed cub in the bookstore at o’hare

(Big Fiction also still on shelf there after two years 🥰😭)

the most crucial, most distinctive method of literary criticism is synthesis, not close reading