Ria Banerjee

EUGENE DANIELS: “You said diversity can be a weakness. What did you mean?”

CUOMO: “Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan.”

EUGENE: “I’m Eugene.” 🤦🏻‍♂️

(Jonathan is the other Black host. SNL’s writers have nothing on Cuomo!)

René Magritte
Le poison, 1939

I'm first in # of claims about reading this book but am ded last in the page count compared to the overachievers in my club

Ah me, I have whiled away the morning intending to read Clarissa without actually reading Clarissa and will have to fess up to the book club AGAIN

just finished Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House & one of the paranormal investigators reads Clarissa to try to put himself to sleep in a haunted house... feels like an in-joke about very long C18th novels

This is so good!

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$50,000: Sufficient incentive to treat fellow human beings this way

Chicago ICE Raids By The Numbers https://theonion.com/chicago-ice-raids-by-the-numbers/

"Thanks professor, I see now that we really need to do the reading to do well in this class" - my sweet summer child of a student on getting their midterm exam back

Waiting for Godot Act 2 - Vladimir: "Memoria praeteritorum bonorum"

In the #KeanuReeves Waiting for Godot, there's a line that goes something like (from Didi to Gogo): "You're always looking at landscapes! But give me the worms"
Anyone know where this comes from? I don't think it's in the published script...

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Oh I am cry

TFW an essay says exactly what you've been compiling as a rant in your head? And does it super well with a bunch of careful research + shoutout to other excellent scholars? For me, that's Sarah Pett's "Rash Reading: Rethinking Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill"

Thanks also JMJ!

It feels so weird to remember a time when sports betting was widely considered to be a scumbag activity

The claim that capitalism has been replaced by a new digital “feudal order” misreads the dynamics of today’s economy. Instead, our article of the week insists that capitalism endures, reorganized around rent, not production.

By @koheisaito.bsky.social & @ryujisasaki.bsky.social

buff.ly/uTbsnvE

"What's the first web page archived in the Wayback Machine?"

We get that question all the time. There's no singular first page. There is, however, a first collection, and it's a really important one ⬇️

Eliot Studies Annual editorial position The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is seeking a new editor. Now in its seventh volume, the Annual features the best new scholarship on the poet, dramatist, critic, and editor T. S. Eliot, published once a year by the International T. S. Eliot Society and Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press. The Annual is available on JSTOR Books and University Scholarship Online, as well as Project Muse. Access is provided to all Eliot Society members on the Liverpool UP platform. The new editor will join the existing team as associate editor for an initial term of six months starting January 1, 2026 and become a full-fledged co-editor with the publication of the current volume in July 2026. The total duration of service is three and a half years, through July 2029, and the new editor will assist in the selection of a second co-editor for 2027. The co-editors supervise each volume from the first call for papers through the referee and editorial process, production, and promotion/circulation. The position affords opportunities to develop the journal, impact Eliot scholarship, and build professional relationships. Record of scholarly publication necessary, but not editorial experience; learn on the job. Send CV, writing sample, and letter of application stating qualifications and reason for interest to tseliot.studies.annual@gmail.com by Friday, Nov 21st, 2025.

The Eliot Studies Annual - our Society journal and one of the best places for cutting edge modernist studies scholarship! - is looking for an editor. Please see below for more information and consider applying!

Deadline: Friday November 21, 2025
#modernism #litstudies

RTs much appreciated 🙏

Time to make out like a bandit and get breakfast

No Rape Involved. Racial Fantasies and State Violence in One Battle After Another - ASAP/Review According to director Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another is not a political film. Like its inspiration, Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 Vineland, the film’s 2 hours and 40 minutes are packed with ac...

What does it mean for a film to be flagged as non-political? What counts as politics, and what is determined to be something else? Our newest review by @faniamakaya.bsky.social explores the racial & sexual vocabulary of PT Anderson's film, One Battle After Another.

asapjournal.com/review/no-ra...

The AWS Outage is Only the Beginning How the AWS outage kept both engineers and people with very expensive mattresses up at night.

“At some point, there's something very material, very physical, carrying your data under the ocean.” slate.trib.al/EoECQdT

Amazing! Many congratulations Kristin!

Apparently they drive down various rankings 🙄 we're the people's uni but only sometimes

We used to have part time phds before! They were great, older souls who just wanted to learn things at a different pace. Miss them in my classes now

opening an arctic wildlife refuge to drilling is worse, environmentally, morally, and in ineffable-yet-damning cosmic terms than demolishing part of the white house

@jmja.bsky.social might know?

A bit late for #ModWrite this week because I was at my Monday 9 a.m. volunteer student book club. To the Lighthouse! Ecocritical Woolf! Students literally shouting NO WAY over some of the best square brackets in Anglophone fiction!

I don’t think people outside of academia understand just how catastrophic the downstream effects of recent higher ed events—from Harvard and U Chicago slashing or pausing PhD admissions, to institutional capitulation to the current admin—will be, it may feel abstract at the moment but it’s not

Allgrims also make bookshelves look good, big recommend!