Sullivan's essay is the best thing to come out of the Chernow biography's reception, at least so far, & Harper's was nice enough to offer me some space to say so.
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![Episode Summary of The American Vandal, A Tale of Today, Episode #20
Title: Literary Sociology a.k.a. The Institutional Turn a.k.a The Spreadsheet School of Literary Criticism
Description: A so-called Spreadsheet Man responds. Does the institutional turn have a distinctly feminine ethos? [27:30] How is it rooted in the Post45 Collective? [49:00] What are its debts to New Historicism and Marxist Literary Criticism? [69:00] And to Fredric Jameson? [84:30] And what has become of Economic Criticism? [94:00]
Cast (in order of appearance): Dan Sinykin, Matt Seybold, Brandon Taylor, Rachel Sagner Buurma, Laura Heffernan, J. D. Connor, Alexander Manshel, Fredric Jameson, Leigh Claire La Berge
Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective
Narration: Nathan Osgood & SNR Audio
For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/TheAmericanVandal/SpreadsheetMen, or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter at TheAmericanVandal.substack.com](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:776hcssquwcv2ihpptzvttxj/bafkreibnmgx4vqpeht6ps5ynwshiw2nzn3rbgjry2i6tpe2clhhnenjbcu@jpeg)
Episode Summary of The American Vandal, A Tale of Today, Episode #20
Title: Literary Sociology a.k.a. The Institutional Turn a.k.a The Spreadsheet School of Literary Criticism
Description: A so-called Spreadsheet Man responds. Does the institutional turn have a distinctly feminine ethos? [27:30] How is it rooted in the Post45 Collective? [49:00] What are its debts to New Historicism and Marxist Literary Criticism? [69:00] And to Fredric Jameson? [84:30] And what has become of Economic Criticism? [94:00]
Cast (in order of appearance): Dan Sinykin, Matt Seybold, Brandon Taylor, Rachel Sagner Buurma, Laura Heffernan, J. D. Connor, Alexander Manshel, Fredric Jameson, Leigh Claire La Berge
Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective
Narration: Nathan Osgood & SNR Audio
For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/TheAmericanVandal/SpreadsheetMen, or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter at TheAmericanVandal.substack.com
The eight months of baited breath ends tomorrow. Dan Sinykin (@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social) responds to Brandon Taylor (and my) critique of "The Spreadsheet Men."
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I never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.
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AI does indeed get a lot wrong.
14.05.2025 17:46 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Solidarity & Speculation (A Tale of Today, Episode #17) - Center for Mark Twain Studies
Apple Podcasts Spotify The finale of our trilogy centered on Technofeudalism begins with the intersection of political economy with aesthetics and literary forms, followed by a synthesis of financial ...
"The business prosperity of the world is only a bubble of credit & speculation, one scheme helping to float another which is no better than it, & the whole liable to come to naught as soon as the busy brain that conceived them ceases its power to devise, or some accident produces a sudden panic."
14.05.2025 17:59 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
CMTS Announces the 2025 Class of Quarry Farm Fellows
Join us in honoring the 2025 Quarry Farm Fellows!
Every year the Center For Mark Twain Studies funds at least a dozen Quarry Farm Fellows - including a creative writer, visual artist, & three (or more) emerging scholars - to spend 2-4 weeks in residence at the place which Twain found uniquely conducive to writing.
Excited for this year's class!
07.02.2025 17:39 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Mark Twain. Born yesterday.
01.12.2024 16:52 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
John T. Lewis & Mark Twain: A Friendship
“This wearer aggrandizes the watch, not the watch the wearer”
A good day to start skeeting with this excerpt from Robert Paul Lamb's forthcoming book, supplemented by documents from Bancroft and Houghton libraries.
28.08.2023 16:08 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
"I don't need an agenda — I just tell the truth. Let it off the leash and don't touch it. It knows what to do."
Investigative reporter covering immigration + more at CT Insider. #nutmegsky
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October 28: “Haunted by the Civil War” (PUP, 2025)
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Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Open access peer-reviewed journal for scholarship on postwar American literature and culture
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literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
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Prof of Lit and Culture, mostly nineteenth century. Coming soon: 🎅 🔎 Searching for Santa Claus: An Anthology of the Poems, Stories and Illustrations That Shaped an American Icon. Writing a book about Mark Twain & London.
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Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (2023) and "Fake Work" (2025); pre-apocalypse, post-pet; NY-based Marxist humorist.
The Melville Society, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, brings together scholars, readers, and artists through the study and appreciation of the life and works of the author Herman Melville. www.melvillesociety.org
Associate Professor of English at UNLV
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I cannot drive by cows without saying "cows!" which poses some logistical problems considering i live in southwest Oklahoma.
Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
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Black Studies, Queer Studies, Carceral Studies
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