Günter Leypoldt

Thanks so much!

Thanks, John, yes, all good in Heidelberg, hope things are good for you, too!

The print version of my new book has now dropped -- proposing a new theory of literary value, a cultural sociology of literary networks, taking a "institutional" look at US/Anglophone lit between 1800 and the present

And Then What? The Road After “Success” in the Arts | Los Angeles Review of Books Alexis Clements uses Alison Bechdel’s new graphic novel “Spent” to meditate on the predicament of the creative artist today.

"All the career planning and prize money in the world can’t guarantee ongoing opportunities and income."

Alexis Clements on Alison Bechdel’s “Spent” and predicaments of the modern artist: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/and-then-what-the-road-after-success-in-the-arts

At random I take another book "The Beautiful and Damned" by Scott Fitzgerald, the "flapper-philosopher," cried perpetrator of "This Side of Paradise." I plough dutifully through the first one hundred and fifty, getting tireder and boreder as the ploughing progresses. Here is the inevitable flapper (the devil take her) and her consort the male nonenity (of whom the devil will have none). Here is marriage, money and morons to your appetite's satiety. Here is gloom unconfined, dressed in "modern" lingo by "modern" dummies, done as we are told by a "modern" young man lately come up from Rutgers or some such institution.

"a 'modern' young man lately come up from Rutgers or some such institution." Editorial, The Double Dealer 3, no. 17, (May 1922): 227, HathiTrust.

Great Talk yesterday evening by Stephanie Wakefield (Florida State University) on „Miami in the Anthropocene“, organized by sub projects B04 and B05 in our @sfb1671.bsky.social. Thank you, Stephanie, a lot to think of.

So they can hear it in the back: $12 billion in profits generated by Elsevier, Springer, T&F, and Wiley between 2019-2024

Title slide for “Echoing: A Theory of the Audiobook” by Alexander Manshel, Laura McGrath, and J.D. Porter

A presentation slide featuring an array of different audiobook covers, in various different fictional and nonfictional genres, all narrated by the same audiobook narrator

Lots of fun presenting with @lbmcgrath.bsky.social and @jdporter.bsky.social at this week’s fabulous conference on the world of audiobooks! Thanks to @corinnanorue.bsky.social and @millicentweber.bsky.social for organizing. And watch this space for more on “Echoing: A Theory of the Audiobook”!

Virginia Woolf Podcast — Literature Cambridge

It was lovely to speak to Karina Jakubowicz on the Virginia Woolf podcast @litcamb.bsky.social about my book The Writer's Room -we talked about (who else) Woolf and all things writing spaces. Check it out here

The Past and Present of Peer Review in the Humanities: An Introduction - Minerva This Introduction to the Special Issue “The Past and Present of Peer Review in the Humanities” situates the currently dominant evaluative regime of peer review within a longer and broader history of s...

Just published: our introduction to the history of peer review in the humanities! (with Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"There is no city, state, or county in America where a two-bedroom apartment is in reach for someone who earns minimum wage and works full time." Zoe Adams reviews Brian Goldstone's book, "There is No Place for Us."
lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-emergency-born-of-prosperity/

How about Beloved wth Oprah Winfrey?

Congratulations @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social !

Can’t wait to read this

Very much looking forward to talking about Maria Edgeworth’s reception in the second half in 19th C in Saturday at #NAVSA2025

YouTube video by CityLightsBooks CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Close Reading Today - Celebrating University Press Week 2025

City Lights has long been a beacon of bookishness for me. It was a thrill to do CITY LIGHTS LIVE!: a conversation about close reading with Yael Segalovitz and my co-editor on Close Reading for the 21C, @johannawinant.bsky.social moderated by @samantharhill.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehZ0...

@jwi.bsky.social @citylightsbooks.bsky.social

There are lots of complex public policy problems in 🇺🇸. How to provide high-quality, widely-accessible higher ed is not one of them. We don't need lots of studies. We don't face "hard choices." We just need to...

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early career scholar and their first publication

Looking forward to this

Thrilled that my book will be published by @princetonupress.bsky.social in February next year!

Die Exzellenzstrategie von Bund und Ländern fördert seit kurzem unser Thematic Research Network „Authentizität in Kultur, Gemeinschaft und Wissenschaft“ an der @uniheidelberg.bsky.social.
www.muwi.uni-heidelberg.de/de/forschung...

A very reasonable take on AI in education

Money and art have been bundled for some time, but people have always differed on when the two are no longer in a good match (Viviana Zelizer‘s term). Jameson‘s phrase implies a good match is no longer possible, not sure that‘s true

Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.

You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”

Spiffing!

Thanks Alex

Looking forward to this!

Cover of my book: Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value. The Cover depicts a bookseller in 1930s Cambridge, with a book rack on her back, and a customer perusing one of her books

Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.