A year since the Clippers scandal broke and the main fallout so far is that Kawhi has managed to flee US jurisdiction

have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off

Sarah Osment@smosment.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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How bad a foul baiter is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander? See if you can guess which two dots are his on this graph of MVP seasons. Dots are further right if players shot the ball a lot. Higher dots mean players shot more free throws. Answer lower in the thread.

congratulations! and for those interested, don't miss a preview (embargoed): Theory of the Novella? in NLH muse.jhu.edu/article/988545

Tasha's not on here, but her book is coming out, and it's incredible. I encourage everybody to read it! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Perverse Attachments

This new theory of reader response describes “perverse attachment,” or the powerful desire to intervene in a story, even when it is impossible to do so.Fiction has long inspired resistance in its read...

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Tasha's not on here, but her book is coming out, and it's incredible. I encourage everybody to read it! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Perverse Attachments

This new theory of reader response describes “perverse attachment,” or the powerful desire to intervene in a story, even when it is impossible to do so.Fiction has long inspired resistance in its read...

press.uchicago.edu

This book is gonna be massive — it’ll totally change the way the discipline understands itself.

Alexander Manshel@manshel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵 academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵 academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

High School English and the Making of American Readers

Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars

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Excited to share that my book, Notes on the Novella, is under contract with Princeton UP. It's made up of thirty "notes" on thirty different novellas. Boccaccio, Cervantes, de Zayas, Eliot, James, Larsen, Fuentes, Pynchon, Delany, Spark, Lispector, Morrison, Ferrante -- and more!

Excited to share that my book, Notes on the Novella, is under contract with Princeton UP. It's made up of thirty "notes" on thirty different novellas. Boccaccio, Cervantes, de Zayas, Eliot, James, Larsen, Fuentes, Pynchon, Delany, Spark, Lispector, Morrison, Ferrante -- and more!

I read zillions of Perry Mason novels and wrote about Erle Stanley Gardner, Cold War ideas of justice, and the War on Crime in the latest issue of Arizona Quarterly: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Be on the cutting edge of scholarship (in academic time) by acquiring my five-year-old monograph that one reviewer criticized for having too many footnotes. Currently 40% off @hopkinspress.bsky.social with code HHOL24. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Experimental

A compelling revision of the history of experimental writing from Pound and Stein to Language poetry, disclosing its uses and its limits.In this bold new study of twentieth-century American writing an...

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In the off-chance you’re interested in affect theory as a materialist theology and/or my book project on feminist an-aesthetics, you’ll find that and much smarter essays (by @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social, @katemarshall.bsky.social, & Thomas Constaninesco) in the pages of American Literary History.

The Affective Bind

Abstract. This essay considers the raucous ontology of the feeling body in relation to the expanding field of affect studies. It first shows how psychophys

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