Can’t tell you how fun it is to wake up in cold sweat on March nights
because d e c a d e s ago annual exams used to be held in March
Margaret’s obsession with geography and fantasies about travel, in collaboration with EF, are such an excellent touch
Two movies that proved to be decidedly much better than word of mouth had me believe -
‘Babylon’ and ‘Materialists’.
The first is exquisite, the second I’m hoping to teach soon.
Wondering if ‘The Bride’ is suffering from a similar problem.
someone should seriously do this. I've been using 'core' in my writing classes, and it's proven popular. i do begin with the disclaimer that i'm not pretending to be younger than i am
lol they are not wrong! i might use this haha
a milestone has been reached i feel because yesterday in class i said the word "aura-farming" while teaching benjamin
I'm at the airport on my way to the east coast for series of events for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century!
Weds, 2/18: Princeton's McGraw Center
Thurs, 2/19: Rutgers English
Fri, 2/20: CUNY Grad Center
Details and RSVP info threaded below -- hope to see some of you!
Listen to the Emory launch…and then join us for the NYC one! @johannawinant.bsky.social will be at the CUNY Graduate Center Friday, Feb. 20 at 5pm for a talk and workshop, followed by a reception. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
partner reading Anna Karenina for the first time and it might as well be Real Housewives of St. Petersburg. suddenly in the middle of complete silence:
"NO! She did NOT go back to him!"
reading Persuasion for the 5th time and the trick of having Wentworth write the letter in front of Anne - my god what a device!
what is an experience you've had in the past, that still seems unreal?
when i was 15, I got to see the Taj Mahal for hours on a moonlit night, after it had closed for the public, with only a few security personnel and dogs for company.
Kim Adams, one half of High Theory, has written about @eramalam.bsky.social's new book, "The Care of Foreigners", for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social .
Check out our episode with Eram here:
hightheory.net/2023/07/07/s...
#academicsky #booksky #HealthCare #medicalhumanities
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Hahaha. And get this look for myself in response
could this work? for one, i'd eat at regular hours, and get about 300% more sleep than i currently do
Three Cheers for Tosh! But also for Ashley Jensen who can do both Agatha Raisin and Ruth Calder, what range!
I’m gonna do the same and I’ll also change my horses at Bromley
Wow definitely watching that! She is such an icon
Look who’s back in the New Year!
put Carol Kane and Richard Kind together on Actors on Actors you cowards!
It was, by every measure, a banner year for The American Vandal.
Every episode is my favorite episode, but here were 2025's top 5 by downloads, starting where you would guess. The episode cited in Slate, Defector, etc. It coined a slogan.
The first of 3 appearances by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
lol late night hallucinations!
is it DH for sure? reminds me of something Sara Ahmed says in different iterations
MTC New Year's Letter from our editor-in-chief plus our editors' picks of 2025. Thank you everyone for helping us have a great year! See you next year and happy holidays ✨
tinyurl.com/bddh3y4r
went to fancy restaurant, debated with friendsa whether person at far table was Sam Rockwell.
person probably overheard discussion because they looked at us with amusement.
person was indeed Sam Rockwell.
One of my favorite places on the internets is the Public Domain Image Archive and here are four images, sans explanation, that represent my 2025. #happynewyear #artsky
Romancing the Worm
Gorgeous work from a book designer I had always wondered about; delighted to see this contribution to graphic design and #bookhistory! Tanya George, Sylvie Vodáková’s Book Covers for Květy Poezie (@letterformarchive.org; #skystorians): letterformarchive.org/news/sylvie-...
