Jeremy Dauber

My every so often post that Grady Hendrix, besides being an incredibly talented writer, is one heck of a nice guy.

You wonder whether or not - I'm sure people have thought of this - a program (in a country like Norway, seems very unlikely ever to happen in US) where you would have buybacks of gas cars, or trade-ins, for EVs. It certainly seems like there would be uptake given the preferential structures.

This is blazingly accurate.

the back and forth in this post threw me into a land of confusion

submissions being perhaps the most blatant and difficult - but I think that someone whose "work" like this got them to an interview stage would not do well at all there.

that you can meaningfully think about, talk about, build on the work done so far - and that only happens as a result of constructively going through what others have thought and said and developing your own impulses, reactions, etc. to it. There are lots of *other* issues, of course - scholarly

I like this formulation, not just because it's funny (which it is!) but because it actually will get to where the resistance/bottleneck against this kind of "research" will hold up: in the in-person gathering. Job talk, conference meeting/paper, etc. - part of the process is demonstrating to others

lots and lots of analogues

totally get this (and ceteris paribus appreciated it a great deal as well)

Today's note of praise is for the cinematography of (especially) the first half of 1979's THE BLACK STALLION. The majesty of the scenes shooting the horse in question remind you (as Jordan Peele's far more recent NOPE did) of how tied the history of filming horses in motion is to movies....

I feel it's my duty as the Last Print Subscriber to let people know this. The staff critics are running in the Book Review, not the weekday paper, which is a big change, and cuts down on the number of reviews. And features like the death of mass market paperbacks also run in the book review.

I think it's fair to say that I don't understand large swaths of the movie, but I find it *incredibly* compelling

I assume you've seen it, but HOUSE (1977)

sigh

yes!! lunch after term ends?

and am only half-kidding

I say all the time, as a middle-aged cultural historian of mostly the 20th century, that increasingly my job is to tell students things that would have been fairly straightforward to many people who were alive and cognizant at the time....

A great piece by @tahneeroksman.bsky.social about a graphic novel I now can't wait to read - and bonus point for tying it to A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, one of my wife's favorite novels growing up and which I'm teaching selections from this term in my intro to American Studies class!

Thank God

and I see in the comments people who know more than me about the 350 number; I do wonder whether even at that size it remains a disincentive at cost for some of the largest companies even to get into the business if they have to break up that much

What will be interesting here is what might happen in the next session with a Democratic House. Presumably with this level of support Senate could repass a version (with what looks like a veto-proof majority...) and get something similar passed in the House. Not sure that it would survive but...

story says that the rabbi sent a message that everyone is safe as of 20 minutes ago - so hoping it's true

Very much pray that the rabbi's message in the story cited below turns out to be true and everyone is safe.

chef's kiss

Patrician and aristocratic novelists would line up serfs or peasants, each representing a scene or beat, and move them around their ballrooms, strolling past them to see how the work flowed. #history

I would like to know this too - my avatar would assuredly recommend more and more em-dashes

As a cultural historian and sometime novelist (only two published so far...), I one hundred percent agree with this - if you read authors on their own touchstones, they're so widely varied and variable - authors tend to also be voracious, frequently practically omnivorous readers, esp great ones

An approach I heartily co-sign - I try to do a note of praise on here almost every day, as Preeti knows: I already did mine for the day (check my feed...)!

But I missed a day this week, so I'll make up for it: Armistead Maupin's TALES OF THE CITY, first volume.

I have to jump on this to say: read ACHEWOOD. A work of genius.

haven't seen that in *years*