My award-winning monograph on #Beowulf (2013) is based on a ch. the medievalist on my committee made me omit from my dissertation because it was too unorthodox to standard thinking about the poem - I now write reviews on Beowulf scholarship for a leading medieval journal - stick to your guns

Freshly published at Twelve Winters Journal, the experimental short story "To Tie a Not" by Richard McNally twelvewinters.com/mcnally-to-t...

This young scholar's takeaways from our #book discussion are vital to understanding Mary Shelley, who had a penchant for endurance every bit as profound as her greatest work's #Frankenstein

The final piece for the Spanish edition of Aspiring Child (Niña con aspiraciones) has landed - the principal translator's preface - tinkering lay ahead but a September release seems reasonable

Like all the other Trump administration scandals, this one hasn't received nearly enough attention. Banks here and globally won't do business with the Trump Organization because of irregularities that suggest Trump and his sons are involved in money laundering.

Team Trump, conservative media and Republican operatives helped spread Russian-generated disinformation - but Mueller's investigators had difficulty determining if they knew they were propagating Russian messaging in the service of Trump's campaign #Mueller #Russia

Congrats to Twelve Winters author and podcast co-host Grant Tracey - the focus of a superb interview by Freedom Fiction Journal, which has taken a particular (and fully warranted) shine to Grant's fiction www.freedomfiction.com/2026/07/live...

I hadn't connected the dots between my parental loss and Mary Shelley's until the connection was discussed during the book event with the students and faculty at NUML - no doubt I had a fuller sense of her loss because of experiencing my own

Received the welcome news my humble collection of sonnets is a finalist in the Global Book Awards in two categories, for #poetry and for #biography - Mary deserves no less - Note also a Spanish edition will be ready by September

Russia's goals included exploiting and deepening the divisions that already existed in American society - we can see in retrospect just how successful they have been #Mueller #Russia

Nowadays most social media users are wary of the information they encounter online, but that wasn't true a mere decade ago - people were easily duped into believing totally fraudulent posts - #Russia and others took advantage of our mass naivete #Mueller

I realized July's installment was the 50th episode of our #podcast - we're into our fourth year without missing a month! - low tech but useful information and a lot of fun for #writers and lovers of #literature - "Like attending a really stimulating grad class ... for free," said one listener

#Russian agents, posing as tourists, began touring the U.S. as early as 2014 for the express purpose of laying the groundwork to influence the #2016 Presidential #election in favor of whichever candidate seemed most useful to their purposes. Putin's choice became an easy one. #Mueller

The Press has seen a well-deserved run on Grant Tracey's Hayden Fuller Mysteries - perhaps in part due to Freedom Fiction Journal's #documentary short on Grant's #noir work - check it out - and Grant's #books youtu.be/QB9qGhzm_g0?...

This young scholar emphasizes a key point: no #literary text has a single *meaning* - meaning-making is a collaborative project of the author and each individual #reader - it was a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear how each student experienced and interpreted my #sonnets

Trump & his team were open to working with any foreign entity who could help him get elected, even countries hostile to U.S. interests like #Russia, #China & #Iran. They hoped to obtain U.S. State Dept. documents that had been stolen to embarrass Hillary Clinton, the Sec. of State. #Mueller

Check out Freedom Fiction's terrific little #video about Grant Tracey's #crimestories (they've published several of them -- all Editor's Choices! -- and nominated one for a #Pushcart Prize #noir #detectivefiction youtu.be/QB9qGhzm_g0?...

Grant Tracey: Moral Endurance against Neo Noir

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Given all the interest in the #Odyssey this summer, it seems a good time to remind everyone of my #novel Men of Winter, which is a sequel to Homer's Odyssey (and Iliad). #reading #Homer

We #literary #trauma theorists have long seen Homer's #Odyssey as a "trauma text" & it seems Christopher Nolan embraced this reading of the #poem for his film (no spoilers, for those five people in North America who haven't seen it yet)

The #translator & I have signed off on 85 of my Mary Shelley #sonnets in #Spanish & she has sent drafts of the remaining 15 - it has been an oddly relaxing while also stimulating process - an ideal activity to while away the summer

Trump and the GOP have successfully gaslighted their followers into believing the investigation into Trump and the resulting "Mueller Report" were orchestrated by Democrats -- but it was an investigation conducted by Trump's own Justice Department. The vilification of #Mueller is a grave injustice

From Volume I of The #Mueller Report having to do with the Trump Campaign's connections in #Russia and Ukraine - the Trump Tower meeting was a key focus for investigators tedmorrissey.blog/2025/09/23/a...

I like to think the #sonnet form allows a poet to take an especially deep dive into the human psyche - beyond perhaps the depth that prose can reach - thus it was a serendipitous choice to write a #biography of Mary Shelley via 100 neoformal Petrarchan sonnets

Often in the #podcast we feature a story that is rather dark and twisted, but for Episode 37 we discuss a beautifully written story that emphasizes some of humanity's best qualities (alongside some lesser qualities too) #fiction #writing #publishing

Episode 37 of the #podcast is now available - about an hour of writerly chitchat followed by thirty minutes of discussing the featured short story - this month from the lit journal Potomac Review #WritingCommunity #PublishingJourney #cnfwriting #translation

Waiting for my #podcast co-hosts to join for Episode 37 of A Lesson before Writing - later today it will drop on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts - #writing #publishing #editing #literature #teaching #art

From time to time I'll share excerpts from my summary of The #Mueller Report, which describes Trump's collaboration with #Russia to get himself elected in 2016 and his efforts to obstruct the Special Counsel's investigation tedmorrissey.blog/2025/09/23/a...

Writers' #psyches always influence their work, both consciously and unconsciously - for me, some of the unconsciously generated aspects of my Mary Shelley #sonnets became more clear when I talked about the #poems with the NUML students and faculty

For my forthcoming collection of international lectures I had to reproduce from memory my talk in Killarney last summer, as it was delivered extemporaneously - I plan to update my observations when the conference convenes in Conway, Arkansas, next summer

Prof. Ghazanfar sent me more than 60 papers written by the university students about Aspiring Child and the #book launch event - I continue to be amazed by their insights and intellect, especially given that they are working in a non-primary language