Gabriel Hankins

Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People “What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Yes it’s great too! Cheap in Feb

Amazing

Or come visit asheville, it’s pretty great till Jan.

Yes one weekend on the beach near Tampa is key

Plastics Why modern and contemporary art—and art conservation—can’t be understood without taking account of the revolutionary impact of plastics

Incredible this book doesn't exist yet, must have press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

University of Minnesota Press Director Retires Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies,…

Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.

A truly legendary run, transformative contributions to letters & humanities, and a wonderfully supportive and insightful editor on a personal level. Congrats and thanks for everything @noctambulate.bsky.social !

not to brag but i can generate slop with natural intelligence

About | Literary Arts Fund The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.

Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/

#Fellowships: Academy in Exile invites 5 international scholars at risk for a 12-month fellowship. The fellowship opens up the opportunity to pursue a career in the humanities, social sciences, or law in a secure environment.
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Oh I am cry

same! gorgeous picture

TFW an essay says exactly what you've been compiling as a rant in your head? And does it super well with a bunch of careful research + shoutout to other excellent scholars? For me, that's Sarah Pett's "Rash Reading: Rethinking Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill"

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Hey this is a great reminder to thank you for your synthesizing work in the digital literary studies and David Mitchell books! Used them all the time for my Cambridge intro, will send along when it's out

A picture of me holding Geoffrey Bilder's festschrift in a print copy. I have a goofy smile.

Creating this festschrift reminded me of a basic truth: you can do something nice for someone whenever you want. Don't wait until people are dead to praise them. Don't hold out for someone else to do it. Nominate people for prizes. Write someone a note of appreciation. Today's the day.

Money, muscles and anxiety: why the manosphere clicked with young men – a visual deep dive The manosphere is known for misogyny, but that’s not the only thing that influencers in this space offer. Young men explain the allure and the problems of the manosphere in their own words

Useful explainer on toxic wealth as the root of internet manosphere and the digital labour of fascism:

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

interesting James -- look forward to this!

Again for the morning crowd. These two new chapters of our book are made available in draft because we’re experimenting with Open Review. Please share your thoughts! These chapters are about methods for assessing data representativeness, and ….

A castle,.. put An House. A cavern, •A bower. A groan,. A sigh. A giant,.A father. A blood-stained dagger.A fan. Howling blasts …A zephyr.

A knight - a gentleman without whiskers A lady who is the heroine - need not be changed being versatile Assassins, - killing glances A monk, - an old steward Skeletons, skulls, &c. — Compliments, sentiments, &c. A lamp, — a candle A magic book sprinkled with blood - a letter bedewed with tears Mysterious voices _ Abstruse words, (easily found in a dictionary). A secret oath, a tender hint A gliding ghost, - an usurer or attorney A witch, - an old housekeeper A wound - a kiss A midnight murder, - a marriage

Reading the Northanger Abbey chapter of @devoney.bsky.social’s latest book and this “turn a Romance into a novel!” table is killing me 😂

There’s a lit studies feed, everyone should promote there, and a uni press feed for larger scope

Late night Watergate crimeposting

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

How is it? The book I mean, not the country!

Very cool piece from Jed Kudrick and @sdileonardi.bsky.social on the history of translation in the US literary scene!

Of course Anna, always!

An unsatisfying term I’ve been thinking through to make sense of this is “postpolitical.” The right looks for that one signifier to prove the shooter was a leftist, the left hopes for proof he was a right winger, and so on. But for these kids don’t use signifiers that way (1/)

Literature student: Hey, chat, will you please summarize ULYSSES for me and identify its themes?

Notebook LM: yes I said yes I will Yes.