This is... unhinged. And wholly separated from reality. There is no, nor has there ever been, voter fraud on a significant level. It is one of the most thoroughly debunked lies in US history.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 11h ago

Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

S is disappointed to learn that Traitors isn’t reality stars in a castle jousting

OK dudes I got myself a hotel for a night in CT. Who’s coming to hang out at the cash bar with me and talk about books??

Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 5d ago

Sept 25, come hang out w/ me in Madison, CT, to celebrate the PB launch of Victorian Gaslighting & see @dbellonby.bsky.social, @sunsetandecho.bsky.social & @zibrak.bsky.social in convo about all their great books—Tangled! 12 Stories by American Women! & more! www.dianaebellonby.com/victorian-ga...

Finishing a first book in literary studies? Don't miss the Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award. Applications due Nov 15. (You can submit with or without a contract, though in either event there is a brief publisher's application to join your author submission). www.acla.org/prize-awards...

Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)

But that’s my emotional support 15 min of staring at Instagram after my kid leaves for school and I need to start my jobby job

Just pointing out this is EXACTLY what happened in late-90s alt rock radio when the post-Telecom Act market bubble burst & programmers reacted by doubling down on the Mancow-y bro content, leading to Creed, Limp Bizkit, & Woodstock 99.

Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Read @biblioracle.bsky.social on the “collapse” of the [trade] nonfiction market and the HIGHLY suspect claim that publishers need to further cater and appeal to very manly men. biblioracle.substack.com/p/if-nonfict...

Read @biblioracle.bsky.social on the “collapse” of the [trade] nonfiction market and the HIGHLY suspect claim that publishers need to further cater and appeal to very manly men. biblioracle.substack.com/p/if-nonfict...

If Nonfiction is Collapsing...

Retreat to quality.

biblioracle.substack.com

"The idea that preparing students to succeed in an AI-saturated world requires reimagining college as an AI incubator is not a sign of technological acumen, but of tech illiteracy." This is so good.

Phillip Maciak@pjmaciak.bsky.social · 4d ago

I usually don't love the central role Harvard has to play in all our higher ed convos, but I think Anastasia Berg is right to point out that this is a grotesque abdication of the responsibility they so proudly accept as a representative of the liberal arts. www.chronicle.com/article/harv...

The simple joy of driving into the grocery store parking lot with the window down and Whitney Houston’s “Didn’t We Almost Have It All” absolutely blaring on the radio

Thank you @ghostingdani.bsky.social for being infinitely savvier than I and helping this old lady access her, er, my archived essay. 🖤🖤🖤 web.archive.org/web/20250420...

Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3d ago

Oof. Bookmarking this for when I want to feel bad about myself going to see Liz Phair in a couple weeks. It pains me so that I can’t link to my hyped on melancholy piece from yesteryear about my long history of attending old lady concerts. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/women-aging-...

Oof. Bookmarking this for when I want to feel bad about myself going to see Liz Phair in a couple weeks. It pains me so that I can’t link to my hyped on melancholy piece from yesteryear about my long history of attending old lady concerts. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/women-aging-...

Women aging in public

Exiled in oldsville with Liz Phair and Sleater-Kinney.

oaklandreviewofbooks.org

YES. Think of your readers as intelligent, but uninformed or maybe just forgetful. You have to TELL THEM THINGS.

Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 4d ago

Just wrote this to an author so I’m coming here to share with you: One of the best ways to bring more readers into a book is to provide MORE context and information. I think there’s an assumption that you have to subtract—less jargon, fewer citations. Maybe, but readers need MORE of other things.

Just wrote this to an author so I’m coming here to share with you: One of the best ways to bring more readers into a book is to provide MORE context and information. I think there’s an assumption that you have to subtract—less jargon, fewer citations. Maybe, but readers need MORE of other things.

it’s all happening!!!

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 4d ago

Albany. Come talk to me.

I lied. It was not a G&T night. But it was finish the first ep of the new season of RHONY night. I did not look up the new cast members in advance and they are a wild ride.

Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 4d ago

Might be a G&T kind of night

Out now! New editions of 2 Jameson classics from Princeton University Press. ‘Marxism and Form,’ with a foreword by Sianne Ngai. ‘The Prison-House of Language,’ with a foreword by Paul North and me.

Might be a G&T kind of night

Nadia in Russian Doll: Thursday. What a concept.

Alt: Natasha Lyonne in Russian Doll saying “Thursday. What a concept.”

static.klipy.com

Sept 25, come hang out w/ me in Madison, CT, to celebrate the PB launch of Victorian Gaslighting & see @dbellonby.bsky.social, @sunsetandecho.bsky.social & @zibrak.bsky.social in convo about all their great books—Tangled! 12 Stories by American Women! & more! www.dianaebellonby.com/victorian-ga...

Yes we must hold the line. Especially because the distinction is about politics and power. The non-human aspect is all about the state capture and corporate monopoly that generates AI's scale, despite its poor quality. If we pretend that is the same as earlier criticism of tech, we hide the power.

We must hold the line on this. Slop doesn't equal "bad" it means slop, the byproduct of some automated process. There's plenty of human-generated "content" that is not great, but that's not slop.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d ago

Slop does not refer to criticism or mere dislike. You can use even the most colloquial of definitions for slop and all of them at least minimally refer to volume and machine produced.

How very lucky is College Literature and how lucky are all of YOU?? Please spread the word, round up your biggest, best ideas, and submit your great work with the joy of knowing it’s being received by one of the best people in the biz.

Rachel Banner@ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 5d ago

Allow me to introduce myself in a new professional capacity: while the JHUP info isn't updated quite yet, I'm delighted to be taking over as Editor in Chief of College Literature here at WCUPA! Lit Studies people, please submit your brilliant work... www.press.jhu.edu/journals/col...

“Morales described the victory as historic to his supporters outside of Riffraff Bookstore and Bar in Olneyville on Wednesday night.” In the near Dem socialist future, may all electoral victories be celebrated at indie bookstore-bars. (I <3 you Riffraff & PVD)

The Providence Eye@thepvdeye.bsky.social · 5d ago

State Representative David Morales captured 53% of the vote in Wednesday’s primary, surpassing incumbent Mayor Brett Smiley’s 46% in a race that reflects a national surge of left-leaning politicians challenging their establishment Democratic peers. pvdeye.org/david-morale...

U Minn Press, I <3 you

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress.bsky.social · 5d ago

Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE, via​ @literaryhub.bsky.social : lithub.com/heres-the-co...

Getting into New Girl for the first time ever in 2026, as one does

finishing prep on two manuscripts for production that readers described as "a pleasure to read" 💅

Extremely helpful!

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 7d ago

In 2026, there are 26 Dems running for Congress, Senate, Governor, or Statewide Office who have made anti-trans votes or statements. Iowa, New York, Ohio, and Texas lead the pack in anti-trans Democrats. Your EITM candidate guide for this election cycle. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Hell hath no furious productivity like a woman getting as much done as she can before the school nurse calls because your son says he feels sick on all of the second day of school

Finished a long book for the first time in a loooooong time. Reading! Maybe not dead after all!

“Ego & narcissism are significant drivers of the uni, & senior managers exploit those characteristics gleefully, w/ the profound effect of keeping its foundational conservatism in place…Cofnas & figures like him are more representative of the uni than the raging leftists of the media fantasy.”

Canadian Dimension@canadiandimension.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis." Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.