Lily Saint

Agnanti is best Greek spot on Astoria park where me and the @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social love to go

As he wrapped up his speech, Brad Lander again congratulated Mamdani, whom he cross-endorsed. And Lander, who is Jewish, declared, “We are not going to let anyone divide Muslim New Yorkers and Jewish New Yorkers.”

Lander is a good egg

evergreen

For those attending the MLA, the illustrious @bakaari.bsky.social and @lilysaint.bsky.social organized a great panel on the African historical novel and I’m thankful they included me. Come by, Thursday at 3:30.

artists are so uptight

definitely no yuks in my classroom

here are the main novels from my hist. novel class a coupla years back: Tolstoy, HADJI MURAT, Achebe, THINGS FALL APART, Coetzee, IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY, Kristof, THE NOTEBOOK, Ghosh, SEA OF POPPIES, Gyasi, HOMEGOING, Burns, MILKMAN
 
Might mess around and include Orlando next time

not a major only a center; which is an awkward umbrella for area studies minors (african studies; caribbean studies; south asian studies). plus ça change

raising a little wit-genstein i see

4) join your union or your @aaup chapter (or start one)

Universities help create good citizens (not mindless workers) and that is worth fighting for.

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/08/10/tenured-professors-call-arms-opinion#

Ugh shame; seems like now might be the time to get some folks to restoke that fire. You only need seven people! I'm happy to chat abt how to get a lapsed chapter off the ground if anyone has the bandwidth do it; we just did it at my institution. I imagine the general mood must be pretty low rn tho

excuse my ignorance: is there an @aaup chapter at wvu and is it mobilizing around these recent threats?

Crusoe. And then give 'em a snippet from Coetzee's Foe to see colonial realism on trial in the 20C novel

here's my kid in a crumbling world

Still haunted by Julianna Spahr's genius essay on late middle-age as the epoch of dying parents; yet it is even worse as my friends have started dying too https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thorns-or-the-things-that-humans-do-in-the-name-of-care-that-are-something-other-than-care/

that's MY line!

concur

hooks!

"Now literature feels sort of like an afterthought."