My husband--a middle school teacher--has turned a shotglass I got in college into a paper clip container, which feels like a too-on-the-nose metaphor for the approach of middle age.

I have been periodically cackling to myself about these two lines all morning.

Patrick Kindig@pdkindig.bsky.social · 3d ago

This book is already everything I was hoping for & I've only read the first story. (From T Clark's All This Want (and I Can't Get None): tinyurl.com/7ehver6h.)

It’s syllabus prep season, and I’m thinking about what a privilege and benefit it must be for those academics who get to directly tie their teaching / syllabi to their research / writing. 1/5

This book is already everything I was hoping for & I've only read the first story. (From T Clark's All This Want (and I Can't Get None): tinyurl.com/7ehver6h.)

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How Ween looks at me (purest skepticism) vs. how he looks at the vet (purest love):

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Point for point pretty much my exact reaction to this film (including/especially the observation that RPatt is the best part!):

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I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Oh, 1950s academia... (From Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman (1951).)

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This game was the the origin of my entire adult self.

Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you want to feel old, the videogame 'Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey' came out in 1996.

Visiting my parents (pt. 2):

Cathy Bowman once told a workshop I was in that, if you know how a poem is going to end before it ends, you're doing it wrong. I don't think this is true all of the time (or even most of the time), but it has served as a generative & necessary little voice in the back of my head ever since.

Lilah Sturges@lilahsturges.com · 3mo ago

Writers: what’s a solid piece of *craft* advice you wish you’d known sooner? Mine is this: when making writing decisions, always stop and ask yourself what is best for the SCENE. What are the scene’s goals? Does this sentence, this paragraph, this line of dialogue serve those goals? If not, fix it.

Visiting my parents:

Two terrific articles in the latest issue of PMLA, one on creepiness by James Draney (who I don't think is on here) and another by @pdkindig.bsky.social on cruising, which has me thinking more about the potential erotics of closeness and distance in close reading.

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Nino Cipri@ninocipri.bsky.social · 4w ago

PSA from your friendly neighborhood bookseller: a lot of bookstores are currently finalizing their big Fall '26 orders, so now would be a great time to preorder any new releases coming out in September - December with them. An example from this past week:

Just a little reminder that this (sexy, gay) book comes out in October/is available for preorder 🥺👉👈. bookshop.org/p/books/agap...

Nino Cipri@ninocipri.bsky.social · 4w ago

PSA from your friendly neighborhood bookseller: a lot of bookstores are currently finalizing their big Fall '26 orders, so now would be a great time to preorder any new releases coming out in September - December with them. An example from this past week:

The unadulterated joy of getting Korean food for the first time since...grad school? Probably?

My husband has pointed out that Sam's Club's new logo looks an awful lot like the logo for another app, &, uh...

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I didn’t know it had rained,

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The 4th is canceled. Welcome to Pride Month Pt. 2:

Entertainment Weekly@ew.com · last mo.

Millie Bobby Brown thinks that she was a closeted gay soldier who was slain with a sword to the spine in a past life.

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RIP my undergraduate Taco Bell--you were a real one:

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Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · last mo.

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