Andrea Pitzer

From: Sent: To: Subject: J [jeevacation@gmail.com] 11/25/2018 11:56:06 PM Elisa New Re: invitation count how many times you say I or me? On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 7:30 PM Lisa New [redacted portion, probably email address] > wrote: Jeffrey, How's this On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 11:05 AM J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: Needs edit. Start with id like you to join clinton ..eyc On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 10:52 AM Lisa New [Redacted strip, probably email address] Dear Jeffrey, Here is an invitation you can forward. Fingers crossed. wrote: I'm going upstairs to hunt for my copy of Lolita, or will get on my kindle and reread on our way to Australia. I may have lent it to one of my kids. I would recommend reading My Antonia by Cather next time you're on a long plane trip. The prose is gorgeous, and the book has-- come to think of it-- similar themes to Lolita in that it's about a man whose whole life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl. Thank you for this help with Serena. I'm so sorry about what happened with WA. I will keep the "bootleg" episode and hope to release someday. It's so good, and he was so kind to read the poem with me and you were so kind to make it happen. Lisa Elisa New Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Director, Poetry in America Harvard University 148 Barker Center 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 [Redacted line]

From LOLITA itself: "An expression of pain flitted across Lo’s face... I asked her what was the matter. “Nothing, you brute,”... This was an orphan. This was a lone child, an absolute waif, with whom a heavy-limbed, foul-smelling adult had had strenuous intercourse three times that very morning."

"hey guys notice that the same people complaining about having to deal with silly 'cancel culture' standards don't feel like they should be moored by literally any other set of standards either. curious thing going on there wouldn't you say?"

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.

We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

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Most of the hearing was routine. At one point, however, Straw's attorney, Christopher Parente, lodged a largely symbolic objection over his client having to turn in his passport, calling him a "boring suburban dad" and saying his whole reason for going to the protest in the first place included objecting to the government checking people's passports and papers. Parente said it wasn't fair for Straw "to sit here now and ask him to turn his passport over to the government for no reason other than they think they can," adding that "landscapers arrested by ICE cannot stand up to the government." "Mr. Straw can, and your Honor can, too," Parente said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Mecklenburg said the passport was about bond conditions, not about what ICE is doing on the streets, and that defendants have turned in their passports "in every case I've had for 19 years." After McShain decided Straw did not have to turn in his passport, Mecklenburg said she'd drop the requirement for all defendants to ensure Straw was not receiving special treatment.

I’m going to think about watching this moment unfold in real time for a long time.

for all the horrors coming out of Chicago and its metro area, the principled courage of everyday people, in the face of such intimidation, never ceases to astonish. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...

i had a frozen shoulder after someone t-boned me in my car and i did nothing for months. when my arm no longer functioned, i got treatment, which (with effort from me) took care of it in about 2 months. not trying to hand out unsolicited advice, but can dm you details if they would be useful to you.

The amazing thing is that the real videos are way more upsetting and horrifying than anything someone could try to produce with AI or any other staging

They should absolutely stand against what the US is doing.

I wrote about this topic awhile ago for @literaryhub.bsky.social in light of historical parallels (lithub.com/how-trumps-a...), and now the always-wise @andreapitzer.bsky.social has gone further, broadening the contemporary relevance of this scapegoating & contextualizing the issue even further 💜

I'll be heading to Roanoke next Monday, a year after I wrote about how locals were organizing to respond to the 2024 election results. I'll be giving a talk there and seeing what's happened since then. The short answer: a lot. Stay tuned!

Stop trans scapegoating The only more powerful narrative tool than a villain is a hero.

I wrote about where the US's current wave of transphobia comes from, and how both Mamdani and Spanberger have shown useful ways for politicians to reject it and still win.

We started Indivisible in 2016 because a future Trump appointee was talking about the WWII Japanese internment camps as a model for immigrants at the same time that Schumer was talking about finding common ground with Trump.

Yeah, the Michael Wolff stuff is from long after the political salience was raised. The 2011 email to Ghislaine? That’s the kind of thing that’s the most relevant to me.

Even Thomas Pynchon is rolling his eyes rn.

To Degenerate Art subscribers: I have hit a small bump in publishing this evening's post! But it should go up tomorrow morning before noon...

Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:

"So I'm putting a team together..."

Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.

John Lingan: Backbeats | Kramers

and if you're in d.c., come hear @johnlingan.bsky.social + @andreapitzer.bsky.social in discussion at kramer books tonight: kramers.com/events/36367...

An unwrapped tamale.

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.

Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Cover of BACKBEATS

Interior photo pages featuring Ringo, the Stones, the MGs and more.

PRAISE FOR BACKBEATS "[Exhibits] passion and deep knowledge... The only moments I put this book down were to pause and listen to the perfect examples that Lingan, a drummer himself, cites as crucial.... Here we see and hear the music of our lives." -BILL JANOVITZ, author of Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History "A thrilling ride... In exquisite detail and deft prose, John Lingan relates the creative insights and technical mastery of fifteen of rock's most influential groove merchants-many still unsung. In doing so, he reclaims the rock narrative from all those frontmen and guitarists, showing how the wizards at the back of the stage were moving the music all along." -IAN S. PORT, author of The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll "An intelligent, heartfelt, and long-overdue tribute to the unsung heroes of modern music. Because, let's face it—if it ain't got that swing, it don't mean a thing." -BRAD TOLINSKI, coauthor of Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar "Backbeats glows with enthusiasm and delivers an insightful glimpse into the sultans of swing who create fire by rubbing two sticks together." —BOB SPITZ, author of The Beatles: The Biography and Led Zeppelin: The Biography "Sitting ten feet from stardom, drummers have had a central but slightly removed view of rock 'n' roll. A drummer himself, John Lingan captures that unique perspective.... Backbeats delivers to the reader something fresh and different. It's a hit." -PRESTON LAUTERBACH, author of The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock

A sticker book plate

BACKBEATS is out today!

Come see me & @andreapitzer.bsky.social at Kramers in DC tonight at 7: kramers.com/events/36367...

DM me a receipt if you’d like a signed book plate in the mail.

And read an excerpt in @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Imagine looking at the US free market health provision disaster and going ‘what this needs is more of the market side’.

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

Enjoy yourself this evening, DC!

No throwing sandwiches!

Or, hey, do that, if you want, it’s your party.

Caregivers were afraid to come into the part of the building where the ceilings are sagging, but repairs will now happen, thanks to you! I realize millions are in need worldwide right now, so give where your heart leads you. But if you want to be alerted the next time I raise funds, DM me. [2/2]

An image of a laundry room ceiling that is buckling, with a washer and dryer and folded linens visible.

For those who donated to the work my friend, Kharkiv native Olga Shpak, is doing there and on the front lines: this photo is from the charity home for elderly city residents. A Shahed drone explosion nearby damaged the roof and cut the power. She’s using some of the money you gave for repairs. [1/2]

John Lingan: Backbeats | Kramers

Come out to Kramers tomorrow (Tuesday, 11/11) at 7pm, when @johnlingan.bsky.social and I will talk about his wonderful new book BACKBEATS, which traces the arc of pop music through the lives and work of 15 drummers. Free, but please RSVP in the link, so they can brace themselves for our onslaught.

A photo of a sign reading “HANDS OFF CHICAGO” with the four red stars and twin pale blue bars of the city’s flag.

A friend just got back from Chicago and gave me this.

Don't know him at all. Will try to look later...

Finally just left a voicemail at the DC office, so you can try that. Will make another attempt to get a human later today...