Sarah Pyke

the whole review was good but this was the best bit

You're absolutely right! You don't need to be good, or walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting! That one's on me. I'm sorry I let the soft animal of your body down this time. Let me try again. Would you like me to call to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting?

Dark green solid with bright yellow and burgundy and lavender pops

Large tortoise boy eating a salad

Today in Jeremy's salad: collard greens, coreopsis, pansy, and henbit

Yes & more: we can't fully evacuate the mundane & routine from our own writing/thinking. It feels like both sides of AI discourse often rest on an idealised fantasy of pure creation. But there's more Bartleby in Shakespeare, even the odd glimmer of Shakespeare in Bartleby, than many want to believe.

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"Der BKM hatte drei Buchhandlungen gestrichen: „Schwarze Risse“ in Berlin, „The Golden Shop“ in Bremen und „Rote Straße“ in Göttingen."

Solidarität mit den Buchhandlungen!
Lasst uns dort Bücher kaufen 💰📚

Voices are very important

over and over announcing your place / in the internet of things

I need to work but I’m sitting in the garden and the sun is hitting the left side of my face

I remember being shocked and angry at the time but also I think quite a lot about how strangely depoliticised the early 2000s were, before the big hike in fees/financial crash (a point I think Patricia Lockwood has also made about feminism which I also agree with). How little agency we felt we had

I love this so much, I keep looking at it

While on the other hand I also distinctly remember talking to one friend about how her parents were going to pay for everything and she was going to invest the loan, pay it back when she graduated and pocket the interest it earned

I graduated earlier than you but I still remember sixth-form chat about getting your loan written off if you didn’t earn enough or pay it back before you retired, which in retrospect is just an incredibly bleak and wrong thing for 17/18yr olds to be discussing. Plan 2 is another level

new Mary Oliver poem just dropped

Peep show in a small box (about the size of a large index card, showing an author in a red coat, manuscript in his hand, dog at his side surveying the workings of a print shop.)

Today, thanks to the Houghton Library, I got to introduce students to an #18thcentury German peepshow showing the interior of a printing house. Take a peek! (It was hard to photograph & the photo fails to include the cat who joins the dog in the foreground as 1 of the spectators.)
#BookHistory

Interesting, thanks

agree totally, thanks for explaining!

Oh okay, yes. So ‘more hireable’ = prestige plus more chance of having the book done because not stitching together years of part-time fixed-term precarious contracts?

Interested in this — what makes a JRF less ‘gentle’, in your opinion, than other postdocs?

The cat just summoned me to the back door, not to let her in but to watch her climb a tree. Yes, she is very clever.

It does, thank you

Thank you — this is helpful!

Does anyone have any good resources on how to explain the difference between a chapter (for an edited collection) and a journal article? Or, would you tell me how you approach writing them differently? What can you do in one that you can‘t in the other? Is one more descriptive/relaxed/surveying etc?

The No’ ‘Sex

Mid Sex

The Sex

A good Sunday morning read: on the ring of hope and “the meaning of a poem“ as “the bit of meat that keeps the dog of the mind quiet” while it does its work through sound and form and rhythm

academic precarity is when you don't apply for the two-year dream job you've seen advertised, because you already have your dream job...but only for the next two years

Me, using my tired and clunky human brain to write something imperfect: I'll just take a little break and see what's going on on Bluesky...

...............oh

amazing how unremitting evil also stays incredibly naff