People in Boone, Appalachian State's cafeteria hall is open with food, electricity and open to all. You don't have to be a student.

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“Hot Walter Scott Autumn” flies in the face of recent handwringing over the death of reading in American colleges, but it’d be nice to see this happen.

Performance of Byron's Sardanapalus is featured in Broadway World. Not too shabby. Now we have almost 75 watch parties happening around the world -- 3 in Africa, 7 in Asia, 2 in South America. This is Global Byron! broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/a…

"Fascists have a vision for the future that excludes most of humanity, but fascists can be defeated. The future is for everyone—if we make it that way." lareviewofbooks.org/article/whose-…

trying to make sense of this, can anyone recommend scholarship on the politics of smell?

Here’s the thing: studies of social media find that most posts are actually positive, but angry posts spread more widely. Why? Joyful posts only spread within our tight social network but anger & indignation are universal, moving more easily across the weak ties between network

Book research is a process where you draft a line like "Partisan Review, the literary magazine of the anti-Stalinist left" and feel like a phony so you take a few months to read old PR issues and the memoirs of everyone involved and then write the same exact line, but confidently

I need help! Job for a new Editorial Assistant in the UGA Press Acquisitions Department just posted. Happy to answer questions! ugajobsearch.com/postings/412496

I just remembered that in my opinion there should be a law that all universities are required to hire two people to do the history of where they're located, defined in terms of region, state, and locality, and similar rules should apply for literature.

if i were a character in star wars i'd probably be a professor of literature at like naboo university or something. probably wouldn't make it into the movie unfortunately, due to my lack of importance in the plot

And True Grit!

Video games are a sandbox for play-acting power and agency, which is only bad because the right way to do that is dream about whaling.

For whatever it’s worth to Zach or other students, I’ve sat on Rhodes Scholarship committees & reviewed many elite apps. This essay: (1) lapsed into hubris by the end of para #1, & (2) didn’t explain *why* Zach wants to learn from other humans, let alone at a particular uni.🧵

Learnt today that Dickens (on whom I’m writing now) had a huge following among the illiterate, who arranged monthly readings of his work to align with its serial publication. By the time Dickens’s own 1860s ‘Penny Readings’ were launched his non-reading fans had favourite bits.

Viral video in Japan: Zespri uploaded this entertaining commercial in which fruits and vegetables chase down a cat that isn't eating a healthy balanced diet. The song lyrics say, "Why aren't you eating fruit? Especially kiwifruit!"

I fear we may have severely underestimated the extent to which people just absolutely hate making decisions and having thoughts

time for a bit of Mahon

lol

"[UNSEASONABLE] is a necessary book for environmental and ecocritical humanists interested in expanding their sense of climate change literatures beyond those produced in the Global North."-Patrick Whitmarsh, ISLE. buff.ly/ZtlZMqf @sarahdimick #Phenology #Envhum #Climate