Kate Beall

I'll be at here, too, obviously (listening, due to cowardice/dinner cooking)
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I'll be at here, too, obviously (listening, due to cowardice/dinner cooking)
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Immeasurable NAWP energy. A++

Porcupine snugged into the broken limb of a bare cottonwood.

sure I’m at #AWP26

Afield
Watching
Porcupines

so weird I didn’t see you there, must’ve just missed you

#NotAtAWP26

Secret Mall Apartment! I lived in Providence when they were caught—the movie captures the vibes of the local art scene at the time pretty well. When the news broke, the general sentiment was “wait, in Providence Place?! …yeah, that tracks.”

Every sentence a grammatical backflip

What's great about this reporting is that it doesn't even bother to sketch what the "high reward" outcome would be, let alone discuss critically to whom it would actually be any kind of good if it ever came to be reality.

alas, the crispy ear snax are not on the current menu

sắp sửa is so freaking good. The food, the service—*and* they’re living by solid values, calling out injustice in the industry and beyond? Winner, winner, crispy pig’s ears for dinner.

“It’s the first time the DCCC placed Crank’s district, which has never elected a Democratic candidate to serve in Congress, on its list.”

Drawing of a false prophet spouting heresy, from "Commentary on the Apocalypse" by Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, and illustrated in the 10th/11th centuries AD. (977x976)

i *know* that there is a good article out there about commercial breaks as a Necessary And Good televised narrative structuring device and ONE OF YOU knows about it and your should give it to me

also anyone in the montreal jewish community!

is anyone who follows me here part of the jewish community in dallas? if so, message me on signal! marisakabas.04

Ah, now the Blizzard of '26 generations have some snow to throw in the face of the Blizzard of '78 generations. I think that's nice.

I’m here for it (but I am also very Not A Christian)

this is the role I was born to play!

proud to have cast the deciding (?) vote

y

…please!

nobody knows what a horse looks like kristin lueke it's a simple trick, really. i say this out loud, then sit back and watch the horse drawings roll in. when i die, they'll find them all gathered in a box beneath my bed. beautiful, monstrous, not-horse looking things i called into existence. now you tell me who i ought to believe in.

reminder

The effort behind the mark

Real Friends is the prequel to Bunny, iirc. Probably best to put books in the same series next to each other ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Close Reading Is For Everyone Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant Call for Pitches Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail? If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step. We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it. Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.

CALL FOR PITCHES

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.

We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.

Details below!

Best writing, academic or popular, about floodplains?

Okay so a thing I LOVED about that is how, whereas so many halftime shows kind of elevate the star above the other dancers/extras—often literally—that was like the exact opposite, he was *with and among* the people around him

Aw, shoot. May your eggs and fishes replenish soon!

[Header: Words & Sports] WINNING CHANGES EVERYTHING Kate Beall a cento, after the commentary of Rich Waltz and Aaron Taylor (Commander-in-Chief Trophy games, Air Force-Navy and Air Force-Army, 2022) Early sledding. The straw that stirs this drink. Tough sledding. The shortest distance between two points is a head start. That's that's that's a heavy piece. Now he's a big load of laundry.

That's a heavy piece. Yes it is in more ways than one. If you live by penetration you die by penetration. Play-makers help me out with the math here make the plays there's a whole lotta eights and sixes in there, running around with their hair on fire. Winning changes everything. A good bloodline. He's the straw. A heavy piece.

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printers, help me. does mohawk not sell/send out sample books anymore? and/or where are you ordering paper from these days? I need tabloid AND letter formats, and want to be able to feel texture and see color before I order w/o always waiting for delivery on sheet samples

Dump Truck, by Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev, 1956