Daniel Hack

Join us Mon 2/9 at Noon (ET) for a free seminar: "Spatiotemporal dynamics of geographic range in seasonally migratory birds" w/ Matthew Hack, PhD candidate, University of Michigan; 2024 AOS Student Research Grant winner. #AOSmembers
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Send me the details and I can check this afternoon.

Wait, are you suggesting that Marxist historicism is not also easily turned into a banal formula?!

B-Sides: J. L. Carr’s “A Month in the Country” - Public Books The impact of the novel’s silences and enigmas is amplified by the enigma that is Carr himself.

“But how full and lasting is this healing? We don’t know.”

New at PB: Daniel Hack on the enigmas of J. L. Carr’s “A Month in the Country.”

I’m there

You already know this, but: New Grub Street

"Exploring complex texts together, sharing our reactions and our insights, developing analyses through dialogue, and trying out ideas on one another is the best way to learn, and also the most fun."

Thanks! I had arrived at pretty much the same place in terms of policy, but was still calling it "participation," even though that seemed inadequate. I will probably blend some of your phrasing with my existing language:

Is this yours, Nathan? I want to make sure I credit the right person when I adopt/adapt this!

My university is encouraging me to use ChatGPT for my research, and I'm so glad I did. Otherwise I never would have known about @carolinelevine.bsky.social's 2004 article, "Victorian Plots and the Twentieth Century Novel: The Case of Kazuo Ishiguro"! Sounds fascinating! How could I have missed it?

This is why, despite misgivings (which I will share with the class), I am teaching a course in the fall I named “The Greatest Novel and the Biggest Question: Middlemarch and Meaning.”

Congratulations, Deidre! Why am I not shocked?

About twenty years ago, in Buffalo. Plus we had the soundtrack CD on high rotation. Great stuff.

“I am not afraid. Well, I am, but I’m still brave.”

We find reassurance where we can. They say the English major is dying and no one reads anymore, but some one left a beat-up copy of MCTEAGUE on the "free books" shelf in my department this morning and it's already gone.

powerful

More self-interrupting songs: “Wrong ‘em Boyo,” “I Want You (She’s So Heavy”