Michael Lucey
@michaellucey.bsky.social
Author of "What Proust Heard" & the Misfit Trilogy: "The Misfit of the Family," "Never Say I," "Someone." Throw in some translating, piano, yoga, and cats.
online.ucpress.edu/representati... The new issue of Representations is AMAZING not coz of my article on Baldwin’s “Just Above My Head.” Read Sreyashi Ray on birds and breathable air; Sean Silver on Sterne’s marbled page; Vanessa Lyon on Delores Fullman and Rauschenberg; and Tom Laqueur on dogs!
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For anyone interested who's in the vicinity tomorrow...
In other excellent Representations news, Carlos Alonso Nugent's article "Drawing and Disrupting Borders in the Wake of the US-Mexico War" from issue 166 just won the annual essay prize from the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB). online.ucpress.edu/representati...
Drawing and Disrupting Borders in the Wake of the US-Mexico War
This article advances an argument about two “imagined environments”—my term for the frameworks that human groups use to depict and dwell in more-than-human worlds. The first of these imagined environm...
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The latest issue of Representations contains a lovely tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis by French historian Denis Crouzet, along with a bouquet of fine articles on Vernon Lee, Wordsworth, Donne, and poetic apostrophe and slavery in Ancient Rome. online.ucpress.edu/representati...
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During a busy fall semester, I missed announcing the impressive special issue of Representations (no. 172) on Techniques of Legal Personhood, with guest editors Lindsay O’Connor Stern and Julie Stone Peters and a sparkling list of contributors. Worth checking out! online.ucpress.edu/representati...
At last, Michael Warner's compelling Berkeley Tanner Lectures are out there in the world awaiting readers.
It’s a Dakota Staton kind of morning as we reacclimate to chilly, gloomy San Francisco.
A cat with Franciscan leanings in the monastery on the island of Badija near Korčula.
Thinking of my great uncle Anthony Stipulin here at St. Anthony’s church in the woods on Korčula.
The latest issue of Representations is full of great pieces on attending to all different kinds of objects, images, book catalogues, and even attending to attention itself. online.ucpress.edu/representati...
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Making flash cards today to consolidate declensions in Croatian...
online.ucpress.edu/representati... Lots of intriguing reading in the new issue of Reps including a wonderful piece by @drbibliomane.bsky.social
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A ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. Congratulations to all these folks! www.gf.org/stories/anno...
Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists
Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.
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Good news from the LRB Bookstore in London today. Also, copies of the US edition are now out in the world!
Always important to spend time with friends and acquaintances in Paris, even if them being locked up at night makes close communication challenging. Something also poignant in the way that the Grisette de 1830 and Frédérick Lemaître are forever separated by the unforgiving Rue du Faubourg du Temple.
I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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Coming on March 25 from Allen Lane in the UK and Semiotext(e) in the US — a book by Didier Eribon committed to the struggle for a better world than this one! Just got my translator’s copies today.
I know it's hard not to be preoccupied with other things, but if you need a distraction, here's a fun forum in the American Book Review on "Listening" organized by Bryan Counter that I contributed to -- a seed planted for an upcoming project... americanbookreview.org/focus-listen...
Focus: Listening -- Fall 2024 • American Book Review
Focus: Listening Volume 45, Number 3 Fall 2024 Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers. From the Editor Worlding Literature by Jeffrey Di Leo Fo...
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Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:
I go to @timothysnyder.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for historical perspective and contemporary context about the dystopia we're experiencing. Snyder's post today has both, plus real actionable guidance. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Free Our Feeds
Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.
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I've been published in the journal that bears the name of my field for the first time! Better late than never...Thanks to @fauxneem.bsky.social Michael Allan and his team! I don't think the issue is up on line yet, but once it is I'll be happy to share a pdf with anyone who's interested....
Regular cat pic posts seem to be what is called for. Here are Sir Rory and Mr. Willoughby being exemplary.
Parisian pavlova. Reasonable reward for a reasonably productive trip.