Anne Carson, newly minted Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, once published the greatest ever author bio

Please consider sending an abstract to my panel ********* World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons ********* I'm also looking at other project opportunities outside of the CFP. Please repost if you can!

KESHED ONLINE LAUNCH REGISTRATION Please email getkeshed@gmail.com with your full name, and the email address you'd like the joining link sending to. I'll acknowledge receipt of all emails but might not be the same day; @davidcollard.bsky.social will send event links out in Feb. Ta! Pls RT 🙏

Stu Hennigan@stuhennigan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#Booksky the online launch of Keshed is going to be at 7 p.m. on Thursday 5th Feb, hosted by The Chief @davidcollard.bsky.social and inc. a 60 minute conversation about the book with the one and only @regretteruane.bsky.social asking the questions. You don't wanna miss this one....... 📚

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

contingentmagazine.org

The great Tony Harrison has died. With others such as Raymond Williams he represented a post-war breakthrough that the philistine assault on education threatens: the possibility of being working class while storming the heights of the most elite culture and transforming it

We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live! 1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

"Vazquez has created a unique and enduring novel. Something hard and real and tangible glitters amid the vapour of text and image she describes." -Dustin Illingworth, @newleftreview.bsky.social Excited about this new review of THE ENDLESS WEEK! newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Dustin Illingworth, Hidden Life — Sidecar

Laura Vazquez’s ‘The Endless Week’.

newleftreview.org

Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.

So driving through Dublin is fun eh

Good evening Saw Gary do a thing “Did I ever sing?”

Finally, I'm able to look more closely at the work of my fellow contributors to Barthes Studies vol. 10, and felt I had to share this piece - 'Interrupting' - by Anfisa Doroshenko. Urgent, complex, stimulating. Do check it out: sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/file...

An evening well spent. Good vibes, generous & articulate & thoughtful colleagues - and more exciting writing to look forward to!

Jeremy Stewart@jeremystewart.bsky.social · 2y ago

March 26, I'll be speaking with my former Lancaster colleague Dr Amanda Vernon, now at Tubingen, about our respective new books in an online launch for I, DANIEL: AN ILLEGITIMATE READING OF JACQUES DERRIDA'S "ENVOIS" - register here for the link: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/onl...

Passed an evening with Andrew McMillan, in which we discussed my serving him during my time at WHSmith in Victoria Station, Manchester

A rotten week. Then, late this morning, I look outside and see a neighbour opening birthday presents - still, gloriously, in their pyjamas. Like magic, I begin to feel better.

Excellent listening to my friend Michael here (all the best people are called Michael, right?) - looking forward to seeing the (un)finished (not-an-)article! Dangerous bends ahead..

unfinishing@unfinishing.bsky.social · 2y ago

A new one is out! This time it’s @michaelshallcross.bsky.social talking about his excellent work in “Inscribing Pandemonium”- all about what happens when you introduce the devil into your writing… unfinishing.co.uk/episodes/wit...

The 2nd floor of UoY library is one of my favourite places in the whole wide world - glad to see their institutional account having the mettle to editorialise about the merits of ditching X

University of York Library@uoylibrary.bsky.social · 2y ago

We left X 150 days ago, and we joined Bluesky 75 days ago. In that very short time we have surpassed the 7k followers it took us 14 years to assemble on X; more than that though we've really enjoyed being part of the dialogue here. Bluesky is not an X replacement; it's better than that. <1/6>

For the Observer today I interviewed #Brassic creator and writer Danny Brocklehurst about the dearth of working class people in the TV and film industry… and of course, the last season for Vinnie & Co. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘Our industry should be appalled’: Brassic creator laments lack of working class people in TV and film

Danny Brocklehurst’s much loved comedy drama raised the bar – now he is calling for greater representation across the industry

theguardian.com

The paperback of my book comes out in Feb, it’s available to preorder in paperback and 30% off with code: PAPER30 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-medical... (Sorry, I don’t know where else to publicise it!)

Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War

Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War

edinburghuniversitypress.com

Calls to mind Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, which begins: “October, 2007. The Santa Ana winds are shredding the bark off the eucalyptus trees in long white stripes.”

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 2y ago

Nobody knows about Santa Anas except his who have lived in the area. The winds are really hard to describe and they have literally no presence in popular culture

Just now, a shooting star overhead (after a futile search for rumoured northern lights). A nice way to end New Year’s Day - and encouragement for 2025, perhaps.

btw if you've never read Roger Ebert's review of The Mummy it's so good it changed me as a person

adonis (and cait)@cait.bsky.social · 2y ago

god now i'm thinking about the mummy (1999) again. some of the best any human being has ever looked on film. a two hour nonstop bisexual awakening