Michael Lucey

A cat sleeping on a chair

The cat on the chair with an altar and statues visible behind it

Wider range view of the whole soaring chapel where the cat is sleeping on the chair

View of part of the cloister outside the chapel

A cat with Franciscan leanings in the monastery on the island of Badija near Korčula.

Photo of the path up to the church

Me standing in front of the church

Round the back of the church

Front of the small church nestled in a grove of trees.

Thinking of my great uncle Anthony Stipulin here at St. Anthony’s church in the woods on Korčula.

Volume 171 Issue 1 | Representations | University of California Press

The latest issue of Representations is full of great pieces on attending to all different kinds of objects, images, book catalogues, and even attending to attention itself.
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Your dad was important in my Wesleyan education. I think of him often.

A handsome cat on a daybed with a window behind him dangling one paw rakishly over the edge of the daybed.

The joys of home

Screen shot of a flash card showing case endings for the Instrumental singular case in Croatian

Making flash cards today to consolidate declensions in Croatian...

Volume 170 Issue 1 | Representations | University of California Press

online.ucpress.edu/representati... Lots of intriguing reading in the new issue of Reps including a wonderful piece by @drbibliomane.bsky.social

Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.

A ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. Congratulations to all these folks! www.gf.org/stories/anno...

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The Life, Old Age and Death of a Working-Class Woman review – a son confronts his mother’s decline Didier Eribon’s guilt and shame fuels an angry and eloquent meditation on our attitudes towards the elderly and the end of life

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

la plume de ma tante est sur le bureau de mon oncle!

Image of the current bestseller list from the LRB bookstore, with Didier Eribon’s book, The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman in the number 1 spot.

picture of a box of a few copies of the US edition of Didier Eribon’s book, The Life, Old-Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman

Good news from the LRB Bookstore in London today. Also, copies of the US edition are now out in the world!

A nighttime picture of the outdoor statue called La grisette de 1830 in Paris, a young working class woman. The statue is in a park surrounded by greenery and trees.

A nighttime picture of the bust of the nineteenth-century actor Frédérick Lemaître in Paris outside in a park with a fence around it.

Always important to spend time with friends and acquaintances in Paris, even if them being locked up at night makes close communication challenging. Something also poignant in the way that the Grisette de 1830 and Frédérick Lemaître are forever separated by the unforgiving Rue du Faubourg du Temple.

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

Photo of the jacket copy of the English translation of Didier Eribon’s book, The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class woman.

Photo of the front cover of The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman

Coming on March 25 from Allen Lane in the UK and Semiotext(e) in the US — a book by Didier Eribon committed to the struggle for a better world than this one! Just got my translator’s copies today.

Protect Transgender Athletes ⭑ 5 Calls On January 14th, the House passed the deceptively-titled Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which is now scheduled for a vote in the Senate. …

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5 calls is a really helpful platform for ally-ship....

Focus: Listening -- Fall 2024 • American Book Review Focus: Listening Volume 45, Number 3 Fall 2024 Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers. From the Editor Worlding Literature by Jeffrey Di Leo Fo...

I know it's hard not to be preoccupied with other things, but if you need a distraction, here's a fun forum in the American Book Review on "Listening" organized by Bryan Counter that I contributed to -- a seed planted for an upcoming project...
americanbookreview.org/focus-listen...

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Photograph of the table of contents of Vol. 76, Number 4 of the journal Comparative Literature.

Photo of the first page of an article by Michael Lucey called "Translation and Polylanguaging: Sexuality and Novels from James Baldwin to Mohamed Mbougar Sarr."

I've been published in the journal that bears the name of my field for the first time! Better late than never...Thanks to @fauxneem.bsky.social Michael Allan and his team! I don't think the issue is up on line yet, but once it is I'll be happy to share a pdf with anyone who's interested....

Just because…

An orange tabby kitten and a full grown Tonkinese cat on a messy unmade bed with front paws intertwined and heads resting against each other, both half asleep.

Regular cat pic posts seem to be what is called for. Here are Sir Rory and Mr. Willoughby being exemplary.

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Parisian pavlova. Reasonable reward for a reasonably productive trip.

The first of three papers I have appearing this fall is on Proust and understanding music. It began as a paper for the NYU "Fugitive Proust" conference. Here it is in an issue of Textual Practice of papers from the conference. A sketch of part of a book to come...
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Vote Forward Vote Forward volunteers send heartfelt handwritten letters to unregistered and low-propensity voters encouraging them to participate in our democracy. The letters have been shown to significantly boos...

Writing letters and postcards through the following platforms for the rest of this season: votefwd.org; markersfordemocracy.org; and postcardstovoters.org. Every day's news makes me want to write a few more.

Sir Rory sends best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Blanching peaches and nectarines for pie (with blackberries to boot). Pretending like it’s a hot summer’s day here in SF, where it’s actually a pleasant, sunny 70.

I feel like a bit of a stereotype making these for the last undergrad Proust class this spring, but whatever. At least they are turning out okay — my first run at them in fact, so that wasn’t a sure thing.