Not what you think. Don’t make my mistake.

It’s trained on Emily Dickinson.

Author Brandon Taylor (Brandon) argues that Jane Austen's novel "Persuasion" illustrates how funny—and sad—adulthood can be time.com/7302901/jane-a…

Amy Sedaris or gtfo

Guess my Mandela effect is that I was pretty sure everyone knew Trump was all over the Epstein stuff and it was just another one of those things no one cared enough about. I truly can’t comprehend the reactions these days. This is breaking news?

Sounds more like the foreign service exam to me.

The Baltimore Sun, Maryland, October 1, 1911

“What do you do for work?” “Me? Oh, I enroll as a new vendor in the system. On the side, I teach and write.”

Ok, so I got an email from my press saying they want to move ahead with feeding my book into the AI machine. All of this creeps me out. Has anyone dealt with this yet?

Also uncool because any email from my press about my book should say “we still think it’s great and everyone loves it and you’re so pretty.”

FYI!

You can now, at last, pre-order CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY directly from Princeton UP. It's at the printer and is likely to arrive in September, though the official pub date is October 21. Can also preview TOC and intro at this link press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

Ok I actually needed this.

8yo: “Wouldn’t it be cool if there were an Inside Out 3 and Riley was a mom and had new emotions? And one of them could be INDIGNITY.”

This is predictable, but also funny because many people say more or less this about the novel itself. (I am mostly a WH defender, for the record.)

It’s *August*. Do not discuss why humanities scholars read papers out loud at conferences. Go outside!

Not “habibi.” 😂

Me lore reminder that I was working there when this happened.

Saw someone on here say a good close reading should be replicable, and I’m not sure what that would mean. Kramnick’s book says replicability doesn’t apply, and I think I agree. A good one means you will always see that passage in light of that reading, but is that replication?