Greetings from the Concord, Massachusetts Dunkin’ Donuts 🙃🫠

Jan. 22, 1852. But why I changed? why I left the woods? I do not think that I can tell. I have often wished myself back. I do not know any better how I ever came to go there. Perhaps it is none of my business, even if it is yours. [Walden Pond by Tim Laman]

Somehow I went 38 years without watching Terrence Malick's DAYS OF HEAVEN (1978) and now I'll be thinking about it for the rest of my life.

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doomed whaling voyage

Flying in Europe this summer? You might want to avoid Prague's Franz Kafka International Airport 😂

Looking forward to talking Transcendentalism with Roundtable for the next five weeks!

“František”. This is a Czech-language death notice posted by Kafka’s parents, a century ago.

Honored to be organizing this Melville Society panel on two of my favorite subjects at next year's MLA in Toronto. Email or DM me with questions/proposals. mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webpr…

Hey, you should check out this cool looking panel for MLA26 in Toronto. 🌶️🔥♨️🧊🌡️🏔️mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webpr…

Still looking for submissions to this Melville Society MLA panel!

Deadline extended! Continuing to welcome submissions through March 17.

Souter was right about everything. A republic, if you can keep it. RIP. youtu.be/6nQRNKXnZcU?si…

Planning this panel for next year's C19 conference in Cincinnati. Email/DM me with any questions and/or paper proposals!

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: the semicolon in the full title of Moby-Dick, the dedication to Hawthorne in Moby-Dick, etymologies & extracts in Moby-Dick, the cetological interludes in Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab's major soliloquies in Moby-Dick, stuff that reminds u of Mo