Final reminder, our Special Issue for the #WeirdModernisms conference invites speakers to publish a shortened version of their paper, an extract, or a summary. Expressions of interest are due tomorrow, 31 July! 🗓️ Email tmr@bams.ac.uk, submissions due 31 August 📨 @moderniststudies.bsky.social

It's time for another Summer #ModWrite Monday! Let us know what you're working on using the hashtag 📚

✨ New Essay! ✨ If "money is queer," it's also deliciously weird. Check out @robbhawkes.bsky.social's latest, where he reads Fitzgerald, Larsen & Ford to challenge the austerity of the private money paradigm through the prism of modernist passing, performance, & trust. Please share! 🙌

Weird Epistemologies of Money and Trust in Fitzgerald, Ford, and Larsen; or, Isn’t Money Weird?

By Rob Hawkes What follows is a slightly expanded version of a talk I gave at the ‘Weird Modernisms’ conference at Loughborough University, UK (1-4 July 2026), a collaboration between the UK-based …

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And that's a wrap on #WeirdModernisms! Thank you so much to everyone who took part and especially to all from @moderniststudies.bsky.social, @modernistudies.bsky.social, and the Loughborough local organising committee for their hard work to produce this wonderfully weird conference! 💐

i measure out my academic life with coffee spoons, and railway waiting rooms - tomorrow i may even dare to eat a peach. Happy Weird Modernisms eve all @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Final preparations for Weird Modernisms today, & thankful for the wonderful people still using the internet to make archive materials accessible. I'll be able to play some rare audio of Ann Quin reading from her 1966 novel, Three, and talk about her immense reading/recommendation list, 'Quinology'.

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It’s ModWrite Monday! ✍️Are you making final preparations for the upcoming conference in Loughborough, or are you onto something else today? Share with us using the hashtag #ModWrite

basketball’s all like gimme that pumpkin i need it and tennis is all like fuck this lemon you take it.

Another #ModWrite Monday! Let us know what you are working on today using the hashtag 📖

Today is the final day to express your interest in contributing to The Modernist Review's special issue for the Weird Modernisms conference in Loughborough, held jointly by @moderniststudies.bsky.social & @modernistudies.bsky.social . Get in touch at tmr@bams.ac.uk!

British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)@modernistudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 CFP: 'Weird Modernisms' TMR Special Issue 📝 We are looking for contributions of conference reports, interviews, Q&As, and similar pieces, covering both the in-person and virtual conference. ⏰ If you are interested in being involved with the issue, please email tmr@bams.ac.uk by 12 June 2026.

spending today's #ModWrite getting distracted by plans to turn the @modernistudies.bsky.social journal into a Broadway show: The Modernist Review!

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 2mo ago

The Henry James Review! Plainsong and Medieval Music! The Lion and the Unicorn! Modernism/Modernity! RNA!

Just another #ModWrite Monday! 🎶 Let us know what you're working on today. Plus, if you're joining us for the Weird Modernisms conference and would like to contribute a conference report, interview, or similar piece to a special issue of The Modernist Review, please get in touch at tmr@bams.ac.uk

if you’re coming to Weird Modernisms in Loughborough (or attending online!), The Modernist Review is looking for contributions to a conference special issue, details below 👇

British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)@modernistudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 CFP: 'Weird Modernisms' TMR Special Issue 📝 We are looking for contributions of conference reports, interviews, Q&As, and similar pieces, covering both the in-person and virtual conference. ⏰ If you are interested in being involved with the issue, please email tmr@bams.ac.uk by 12 June 2026.

the people yearn for robinson crusoe smoked salmon (especially because google translates ‘sin piel y sin espinas’ as ‘skinless and thornless’)

Dylan Lewis@iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My library has one of the best Robinson Crusoe collections in the world, not only over 1000 editions and adaptations of the novel itself, but also things related to Crusoe fan culture. Was working with a researcher today and discovered ROBINSON CRUSOE SMOKED SALMON from 1979 Chile

so lucky to have the leaning tower of bristol (temple church) on my doorstep. a suitably weird spot to start thinking about my paper on Ann Quin’s strangely modernist transmissions for the @modernistudies.bsky.social & @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference next month

Wondering what life after submission could look like? Come and find out at our Graduate Panel 'What's Next: Life and Work After Submission' at Weird Modernisms - there are still spaces available! If you would like to attend, please email info@bams.ac.uk!

What modernist text, artwork, object, or idea has been keeping you company today? Share it with us using #ModWrite. We’d love to hear what you’re working on — or quietly refusing to stop thinking about📖🍵

We are delighted to share #TheModernistReview61! Our May issue offers a range of articles, creative pieces, and book reviews. Enjoy! Check it out here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/t...

The Modernist Review Issue #61

29 May 2026 As the end of the academic year creeps ever closer, we cannot help but agree with Henry James as he writes ‘Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two mos…

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Under the Volcano is one of my favourite novels. It’s told in the thirst person.

If you can believe it, it's #ModWrite Monday once again! Share what you are working on using the hashtag ☔

immediately losing many hours to this database

Melanie Walsh@mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This database is like if Goodreads existed between 1450 and 1945. "I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman" www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading...

today's #ModWrite is a trawl through Evelyn Waugh's letters - a deluge of nicknames & tall tales, but peppered with wonderful BBC barbs. My favourite - B.B.C.L.S.D.N.B.G.E.W [BBC's Pounds, Shillings & Pence No Bloody Good, Evelyn Waugh]

British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)@modernistudies.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Welcome to the first #ModWrite of May! Let us know what you're working on today using the hashtag 🌷

Welcome to the first #ModWrite of May! Let us know what you're working on today using the hashtag 🌷

slightly diminish a book: The Puddle of Loneliness

British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)@modernistudies.bsky.social · 3mo ago

in lieu of #ModWrite (normal service resumes tomorrow after the bank holiday) enjoy these slightly diminished books, and tag us in your slightly diminished modernist favourites 📚

It's Monday and we're excited to know what you're working on! Let us know what you've got going on using the hashtag #ModWrite 📝💭

My little suggestion today is that if you have to read a T.S. Eliot poem you put, “Girl,” in front of the first line & read the rest in the voice of a drag queen reading someone to filth.

also me - no Cloudflare, I’m not a malicious bot, I’m just trawling through every single Radio Times listing from 1954… Please stop making me select images of hats.

dr joshua phillips@woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

no Cloudflare, I'm not a malicious bot, I'm just a big old nerd who's crawling his way through 200 items from an online finding aid by hand and transcribing them for big old nerd purposes.

For today's #ModWrite I'm working on Patrick Hamilton's last play, The Man Upstairs. After a failed regional theatre tour, it found a home on BBC television, giving rise to this fabulous headline in The Scotsman - which my fingers refuse to type as anything other than 'Red Meat, Jeeps and Critters'

British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)@modernistudies.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Modwrite Monday is here again📖What’s on your plate today? Share with us by using the hashtag #Modwrite

the people yearn for the Isolator (i am the people)

Wishing everyone a lovely Easter Monday #ModWrite! 🌞🐣 Don't forget to check out #TheModernistReview60: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/t...

The Modernist Review Issue #60: New Work in Modernist Studies

2 April 2026 Following on from the 15th edition of New Work in Modernist Studies (NWiMS) held virtually in January, we are delighted to present a selection of articles from the conference’s speaker…

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