Lonny Harrison

Some view writing as a solitary act. However, as an author, your voice is created in relation to your reader. Finding your audience in that space is both liberating and demanding.

A writer’s wish: If, in all my works and days, I’ve written a few good sentences, a good paragraph or two, or if I even dare to hope—a few good pages, then I can rest easy and say my goal is accomplished.

Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Slightly diminish a band:
Okay with Being Dead

you had me at post-apocalyptic scholarship

Nailed it.

"Reading Dostoevsky is like the endless scroll many of us get sucked into" -- who can relate? ✋

This author interview on Dostoevsky criticism and the lost art of reading faithfully is a must for anyone interested in Dostoevsky and the Silver Age.

News Nation Appearance July 29, 2025

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‘I Fought with My Twin’: Bob Dylan’s Artistic Symmetries with Fyodor Dostoevsky This is an edited transcript of a presentation I gave at the World of Bob Dylan 2025 Conference at The University of Tulsa Institute for Bob Dylan Studies, July 24-27, 2025.

My recent talk on #Dylan and #Dostoevsky at the World of Bob Dylan 2025 is now posted on Substack:
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And still has more energy than most of the fans in the stadium 🕺😄

Add: liberating. Dreyer’s English hands you the keys to your own voice and says go on take it for a spin, the road is yours.

Ah but how the time stands still until those two paragraphs get teased out and leave you breathless.

In a surprising twist, I spoke to the presenter today and he showed me the footage. So it does exist but he purchased it from the Russian national archives and is not permitted to screen it in public.

Unfortunately no, but the presenter, who’s a Russian journalist, teased that he has a lead on someone who might have a tape.

Cool to see a poster like this ‘in the wild’. There was a talk about Bob in the USSR at the World of Bob Dylan 2025 conference in Tulsa this week.

Welcome to the World of Bob Dylan 2025 The World of Bob Dylan returns to Tulsa from July 24-27, 2025. Coinciding with the Bob Dylan Center's new exhibit, Tulsa will celebrate the sixtieth

It's been such a privilege to see the amazing presentations this week at the World of Bob Dylan 2025 conference and tour the sensational @bobdylancenter.bsky.social. In my talk tomorrow I'll be drawing some parallels between #Dylan and #Dostoevsky. dylan.utulsa.edu/wobd25/

Best post ever

Best post ever

Love this! Congrats on the fascinating publication!

"I Fought with My Twin" Super excited to present at World of Bob Dylan, July 24-27 @utulsa.bsky.social @bobdylancenter.bsky.social on artistic symmetries between Dylan and Dostoevsky. A lifelong fan, this is my first academic conference on Dylan and I can't wait to see all the great presentations.

Here is a little story 🧵 about a late night satirical show cancellation for some reason #Colbert

Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social,

Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,

Your fan, Mar🐫

Morning coffee + a book = our favorite way to start the day.

I look forward to checking it out. Congrats on the new paperback edition!

Realizing it may be outside your >1930 timeline!

Intriguing subject! Curious if you write about the 1934 Russian work “Novel with Cocaine” by M. Ageyev?

Digging the Malevich cover art. Congrats on the new book!

Very intrigued by this topic!

The image shows Ishutin in exile at a prison colony in Nerchinsk, in the Russian Far East, in 1875.

The best part!