I'm looking for data, scholarship, or journalism on the rise of online university teaching post-pandemic--anyone who has cites please send them my way!

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Incredible.

REJECTION meme thread let's go

Herman Melville Crazy

Finally read that devastating review everyone is talking about.

I got Kant the thing-in-itself for his 300th birthday, so he’s definitely going to like me the most now

'And the tree was happy'

This review by Sarah Brouillette is a masterclass in the genre--generous, incisive, committed to situating the books in a larger milieu (one might read it as an 'Intro to Lit Sociology' text rather than just as a review of 2 books!), and richly productive.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

I wonder how the profs would feel if, instead of reading a statement and leaving, people were there to settle in their house permanently, steal their stuff, and kick them out into the street

Grateful that the first academic review of Big Fiction is out and that it's by the great Sarah Brouillette. Her purview extends to sociology of lit writ large now and anyone interested in that topic should read it muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

unbelievably excited to publish tadhg hoey's searching, sweeping profile of percival everett in @the_millions today— themillions.com/2024/04/severa…

In which I argue for the publishing of fewer books but with far more resources. lithub.com/there-are-too-…

Simon & Schuster turns 100. Will it stick around for the next 100? | NPR Books pwne.ws/4aPaDgR

Since everyone is sharing their Stephen King’s “CARRIE Turns 50” stories this morning, indulge me with my own. Somewhat coincidentally, I recounted this only yesterday over coffee. 1/7 🧵

Stephen King Elaine Dimopoulos The Daily Heller

nytimes.com/2024/03/27/boo…

There is a potential future timeline in which only the humanities continue to exist in academia.