Stigma by Erving Goffman, not. new but still relevant?

I have fallen in love with her! Haven’t gotten to the stories yet, nor all the novels. Such a wonderful writer ❤️

Philippe Soupault - Serving House Books

“These totally remarkable renderings – I won’t even say translations – of the superb French Surrealist poet, Philippe Soupault, are nothing short of miraculous."
(Mary Ann Caws)

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I can't wait to read this!!

Olga Tokarczuk's Eighteenth Century, Co-chairs Katarzyna Bartoszyska and Deidre Shauna Lynch We are assembling a roundtable on the novels of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. We hope to identify other scholars who are interested in how her fiction lays claim to the legacy of eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, repurposing the Enlightenment’s encyclopedism and universalism and its concepts of print communications, the public sphere, and the trans-national republic of letters. How do we re-see our period —its modernity, its concerns with gender, nature, violence, nation—through the lens provided by this 21st-century Polish novelist? Alternately, how might we trace continuities from the eighteenth century to the present in the formal experiments or thematic concerns of novels such as Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and The Books of Jacob, and what new architectures of totality or concepts of voice might we discover by doing so?

#18thc pals, pls RT: @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social & I are assembling a roundtable for the American Society for 18th-C Studies mting in Philly in April, on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century. Abstracts due 9/22. Pls help us think together about this fabulous novelist's wayward ways with our period & its 📚.

'There Is No Law': Scenes From a Houston Immigration Court in Trump's America | Common Dreams On August 29, US District Judge Jia M. Cobb wrote, "The Supreme Court has therefore 'long held that no person shall be removed from the United States' without due process of law." Will the administrat...

The CoreCivic employee's i.d. badge hangs from a purple lanyard with white lettering: "CoreCivic Diversity Equity Inclusion."

www.commondreams.org/opinion/hous...

honest question: when did the time lag for satisfaction of instant gratification get so short? I seem to remember it being at least a day (except for family members and close friends).

this is a terrific doc. do I have your permission to share it with my chair who is not on Bluesky?

you want to know who stands between us and our better angels? Charles Dickens, that's who! Reading Barnaby Rudge......him and his raven named Grip.

Small Rain and Verbal Power Contributed by Marcie Frank, Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen; How to be an Intelle…

check out my post on Garth Greenwell's Small Rain, with thanks to Kevin Pask and Mark Dow, editors extraordinares: westronwynde750443069.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/2...

any poetry loving friends close to Hudson NY, here's an interesting upcoming event at Flow Chart: www.eventbrite.com/e/philippe-s...

How Hulk Hogan Leg-Dropped the Digital Media Industry

How Hulk Hogan Leg-Dropped the Digital Media Industry www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/m...

YouTube video by firerecords Pere Ubu - Oh Catherine (Official Video)

sad to learn of David Thomas's death. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6h_...

can you join with more public universities?

shadenfreude?

why is no one saying that one way to get back Abrego is DIPLOMACY? I mean, I get it that would involve the government admitting he was deported by error, but they already admitted that, didn't they?

The Tesla of Otranto? (h/t Niki Lambros). www.instagram.com/p/DHYAJcfC8g...

shocking

‘All Hockey Hair Team’ Creator Discusses Minnesota High School Tournament Minnesota’s high school hockey tournament is a fashion show of mullets, perms and bleach. With his “All Hockey Hair Team,” John King chronicles the lettuce and flow.

one good thing in NYT today for all right minded folks who've stopped reading it: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/s...

About the surge in Canadian nationalism even in Quebec: I actually heard a recycle collection person singing "O Canada" the other day!

I have come to believe that Trump wants to annex Canada not only to protect, i.e. appropriate, its minerals but also to carve up arctic waterways, as they melt, with Putin.

@theferocity.bsky.social

The Absurd, Dizzying Humanity of a 20th-Century Genius Mavis Gallant wrote short stories full of brutal humor that examined the hell of other people.

Nice appreciation of Mavis Gallant www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/b...

C'est demain, venez !!?

Best wishes to Jackie on her retirement and for as easy a transition as possible.

Kudos to Lauren Berlant! Cruel Optimism has entered the vernacular. See the current NYRB: "Slow Horses may be catching a wave in history, but it’s not the churn of geopolitics. It is the cruel optimism of the underemployed, of people who feel stuck, underpaid, and underappreciated at work."

fantastic! Congratulations!

Adam Frank’s new book is on display at MLA 2025

Finally got around to reading Annie Ernaux's The Years. There's some fabulous description of consumer life after the digital turn: "Sampling at the rate of one small container a day, an entire year would not have been enough tory every available flavour of yoghurt and dairy dessert."

Why Do Canadians Say ‘Eh’? The story behind Canada’s most distinctive verbal tic.

H/T VK Preston: getpocket.com/explore/item...