@1977khv.bsky.social
English PhD who works for DoD, as was No Official Positions Really, completely unofficial Slava Ukraini! đť
saw something today about reading to spite these times and yes yes yes
@1977khv.bsky.social ¡ 2w ago
as ever and with my whole chest readingâespecially fictionâis not a wellness practice
immensely grateful for friends who thrust a book into my hands and wonât take no for an answer because they know what I need before I do
my spring/summer mantra riffs on OâKeefe: *i have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to come home to myself*
wellness is a privatized response to public collective ills readingâesp fictionâis collective and communal no no no to wellness
@1977khv.bsky.social ¡ 2w ago
as ever and with my whole chest readingâespecially fictionâis not a wellness practice
as ever and with my whole chest readingâespecially fictionâis not a wellness practice
we should all be reading fat novels all of the time! we should all be reading about fall novels all of the time!
Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social ¡ 2w agoI spent all week reading two fat novels that knocked my socks off. Allow me tell you about them?https://www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-review-vol-114/
there is no subject too big for fiction there is no subject too big for fiction there is no subject too big for fiction and also there is no subject too big for fiction
and to riff on *barchester towers* whowillbethenewprimeminister?.doc
Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social ¡ 2w agoPrimeMinister.doc , PrimeMinister(final).doc , PrimeMinister(thisone!).doc , PrimeMinister(finalfinal).doc , PrimeMinister(withRevisions).doc , PrimeMinister(actualfinal).doc ,
from today the I have a moment and a beer all to myself read
@1977khv.bsky.social ¡ last mo.
yes to beach reads yes to airplane books but we need and deserve more occasional categories for reading the pedicure chair novel the waiting room read the I canât with the state of the world anymore book
girlies on the summertime ferry with their noses in a novel the kids are alright
thereâs a special kind of PNW đ˛light that I willnever not think of as Klickitat Street light
in my most I love the PNW đ˛ voice: Climate fires, I hate them
Kim McCauley@kimischilling.bsky.social ¡ 3w agoI am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldnât go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times
welp this is not how I understand or write about or used to teach this at all
he would have liked to have seen Montana @shaneharris.bsky.social
Letterboxd@letterboxd.social ¡ 3w agoSam Neill (1947â2026)
we donât have to live like this we donât have to live like this we donât have to live like this
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social ¡ 4w agothere is infinite money for weapons, non-educator vice chancellors of nothingness, and tech-grift corporate welfare but zero money for teachers, libraries, tuition
happy hour read
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com ¡ 4w agoAmericans were once members of a proudly literate society, but today, reading has declined across age groups, gender, and education levels. For The Atlanticâs August issue, @rosehorowitch.bsky.social explores the reading collapseâand its effects on civilization:
never not thinking on spy fiction as a family affair. smiley doesnât say it but leCarrĂŠ writes it: *sometimes the whole of marriage was a cover story*
...@ricardo-owens.bsky.social ¡ 4w ago
a thing I would love for my life is to read Karen Russell again for the first time
Dan Sinykin@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social ¡ 4w agoreading karen russell for the first time, her early stories, which display, like, the culmination of a kind of mfa craft prose: âthe thunder makes the thin window glass ripple like wax paper" etc. all alliteration and consonance and rhythm and clever description and evocation of multiple senses
ah so thereâs a new entry in the canon of people within the humanities who do not actually like the humanities writing about how bad the humanities are