Bethany Johnsen Creed

The Best Use of the Worst Story: Realism and Reality TV - The Rambling Miranda Hoegberg considers how couples learn about each other through watching reality dating shows—and what this might mean about how we learn in general from didactic forms like the realist novel. A...

"Why is it that so many reality dating shows use formats that recall the courtship rituals of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels?" Miranda Hoegberg compares forms old and new.

Seeing Red, Feeling Blue: Rereading Amber Brown - The Rambling Abigail Spencer revisits Paula Danziger’s Amber Brown series and finds kinship with a childhood not often depicted in children’s fiction. An only child of divorced parents, Amber manages her father’s ...

"I’ve spent many years searching for some version of my story, yet what seems a simple premise—'daughter carries on without father'—is not so simple to find in children’s literature." Abigail Spencer on the Amber Brown series

We Are Lost - The Rambling On the 20th anniversary of the hit TV show Lost, author Samantha Colicchio examines the series through the lens of her experience at NYU’s acting conservatory. She explores the show’s philosophical qu...

"By then, I knew that what I had always wanted from a story was what I had wanted from life: to make it mean something despite what seemed like utter chaos." Samantha Colicchio on her journey with the hit TV show Lost.
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Give thanks—The Rambling is out! From Lost to Lord of the Rings, reality TV to “succubus chic,” you will not lack for conversation at the dinner table after reading our latest issue, now live at the-rambling.com.

Turkey trot your way over to @therambling.bsky.social straight away, because our latest issue is out—from Lost to Lord of the Rings, reality TV to “succubus chic,” you will not lack for conversation at the dinner table after reading the essays at the-rambling.com. 🐌🦃

Bluesky is officially “open” now (no more invites). So just a reminder to not engage with trolls and bad actors, there is no algorithm here to promote or spread them, replying to them is what puts them on everybody’s timelines. So block and give no oxygen.

The Work of Remembering: An Interview with Devoney Looser - The Rambling A year after the publication of Devoney Looser’s Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës, Bethany Creed sits down with the author for a conve...

“Writing prose for experts is seen as harder than writing prose for non-experts, and I just don’t think that’s true. They’re both hard in different ways, and they’re both a practice.” @bethanysays.bsky.social @devoney.bsky.social
#c18th #AcademicSky

I write fiction and I run the production department of an academic press.

Writing fiction is MUCH, MUCH HARDER at the prose level.

Academic writing with brilliant ideas, convincing arguments and evidence, and dull prose will still get published.

Fiction has to achieve telepathy.

This was FASCINATING

Check out The Rambling's fantastic new issue!

when I wrote about basically being Mr. Darcy

Democratic Staffers Told To Let Constant Calls For Cease-Fire ‘Go To Voicemail’ Congressional staff say the mood inside the Capitol is tense, stifling and bewildering as members brush off their constituents’ outrage.

Congressional staffers say an onslaught of calls and emails asking for members to support a cease-fire has caught Dems completely off-guard.

“I’ve never seen such a disconnect between where voters and constituents are and where Congress is"

Wish I could be there for both! (I’m in Cali😔)

Nikki Haley to Ramaswamy: “well, you’re just scum” undoubtedly best thing ever said on a Republican debate stage.

URGENT: Oppose an Amendment to Eliminate Funding for the NEH I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.

Please sign this petition to keep funding NEH. It's quick and easy. Thanks. 🗃️

DIVERSITY SCHOLARS FELLOW The Provost’s Office at Ithaca College invites applications for Diversity Scholars Predoctoral Fellowships for AY 24-25.

Please spread the word about the Ithaca College Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship! A one year fellowship where you teach one course per semester and are paid $42k plus $5k travel/professional development funds, plus various forms of mentoring.

no one has ever made a better Lady Bracknell joke

very excited for The Rambling on bluesky