Tom Sojka

Daytime high temperature of 58 degrees. I have been restored to my full powers.

sure, sure

i remember writing more

only took 18 months—to the day—to get my dissertation from proquest

Each time I’ve brought Vanity Fair on the train, it has been delayed, thereby giving me more time to read Vanity Fair.

Becky Sharp-maxxing

now for something I really don’t want to read, my book manuscript-in-progress

Made the NYT Plum Torte and it really does fuck.

If I'd been in "The House of Mirth" it wouldn't have gone down like that for Lily

As something of a Lily Bart myself (love spending money I don’t have, hate collectors of Americana, small sleeping potion dependency)

Used to be if you didn’t like your social media platform you had to move to Geneva with your coterie and have ghost story competitions 🤔

Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this.

I hope it endures.

The fact that universities have been around for longer than capitalism gives an indication of who should be learning from whom

his ass is not reading

Give me the conviction of the woman who just tried to order a double espresso in the Amtrak cafe car.

long weekend, baby!

You’re heard of Drake….now get ready for Blake *booing intensifies*

Went to the William Blake show at the Yale Center for British Art and….should I be teaching more William Blake??