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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 1h
So many fantastic contributions to this issue, thanks @juliestonepeters.bsky.social and Lindsay Stern for organizing it!
juliestonepeters.bsky.social juliestonepeters.bsky.social @juliestonepeters.bsky.social · 22h
TECHNIQUES OF LEGAL PERSONHOOD, ed Lindsay Stern & me! Essays: Emily Apter, Jeannine DeLombard, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Renisa Mawani, Andreas PhilippopoulosM, Alain Pottage, Paul Saint-Amour, @lsiraganian.bsky.social, Lindsay, @simon8.bsky.social, Patricia Williams! online.ucpress.edu/representati...
Volume 172 Issue 1 | Representations | University of California Press
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juliestonepeters.bsky.social @juliestonepeters.bsky.social · 22h
TECHNIQUES OF LEGAL PERSONHOOD, ed Lindsay Stern & me! Essays: Emily Apter, Jeannine DeLombard, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Renisa Mawani, Andreas PhilippopoulosM, Alain Pottage, Paul Saint-Amour, @lsiraganian.bsky.social, Lindsay, @simon8.bsky.social, Patricia Williams! online.ucpress.edu/representati...
Volume 172 Issue 1 | Representations | University of California Press
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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 3d
My incredible book cover is based on an illustration drawn from this!
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 5d
Miller, D.A., heart of, broken by a cardiologist [see index]
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 6d
I demand sandwich-proof vests!!
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 6d
I demand one of those immediate appeal injunc stop do-over things!!
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 6d
a proud tradition since 1670! utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/a683f3...
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 6d
shouldn't that be - The Ovaltine Office?

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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 7d
I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025
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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 8d
sorry, my bad attempt at humor ... all 3 were known for writing in the first person, inhabiting the persona of someone who is semi-illitrit

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Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social · 8d
Excited to reveal the cover of my book, MIDDLEMEN: LITERARY AGENTS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FICTION, which is available for pre-order now!
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 8d
I think they are using "much less" to mean "not even" -- a long-attested usage going back to George Ade, Anita Loos, and Ring Lardner

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 9d
A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
CFP: Bookselling and Literature
Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers (matthew.chambers@uj.edu.pl) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…
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Doug Coulson @dougcoulson.bsky.social · 10d
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 12d
The Andrew formerly known as Prince
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 12d
A bad dude was ol' Ozymandias
He wasn't exactly the dandiest
The statue he built
Crumbled into the silt
With a few stones to cover his sandy ass
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 21d
CFP: Law Culture & Humanities 28th Annual Conference @ DePaul, Chicago, June 17/18 2026 lawculturehumanities.com/event/2026-t... We welcome proposals for papers, roundtables, work-in-progress sessions, you name it!
2026 Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference - Law, Culture, and the Humanities
2026 Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference June 17, 2026 @ 8:00 am - June 18, 2026 @ 7:00 pm DePaul University College of Law 25 E Jackson Blvd. Chicago, Illinois 60604 United States + Google Map Share this...
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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 21d
20% discount on Melissa Ganz, ed., British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge UP) : asecs.org/2025/10/13/b...
Book Publication: British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century – ASECS
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Doug Coulson @dougcoulson.bsky.social · Oct 10
British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Oct 6
not to mention the cost of curtilage!
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Oct 4
"Something painful encloses something joyful and now I am enclosing that painful thing as a way to assert my joy." -- Robert Gluck, "Denny Smith"

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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · Oct 2
Preorder here!
The New Old Style - Nebraska Press
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu

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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · Oct 2
Absolutely thrilled with the cover @univnebpress.bsky.social has designed for my book, The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics (coming August ‘26)! And special thanks to the wonderful and generous Cole Closser for allowing me to use their art.
Cover of a book titled The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics, by Matthew Levay. The cover features three vertically-arranged panels. The middle features the book’s title against a black background, while the top and bottom feature colorful drawings of a boy with white circles for eyes, done in a style clearly reminiscent of 1920s and 1930s-era newspaper comics and designed to appear as if they are printed on old newsprint.

Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Sep 30
By implication he responds to her statement that she has acted "to the best of [her] ability" but it's interesting that the judge doesn't comment more directly on that part. That is to say -- maybe she did act to the best of her ability, and if so, what does that say about her ability?
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Sep 30
"[I]t strains credulity to think the RIF was 'uncertain[]' or 'a mere possibility' as the defendants repeatedly represented to this Court. ... The defendants' obfuscation ... has wasted precious judicial time and would readily support contempt proceedings."
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Sep 27
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shimmer.bsky.social Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · Sep 27
Reading this today, my second by Sully both thanks to @neglectedbooks.com. It’s inexplicable to me that the verve for republishing mid century novelists like Comyns et al hasn’t found its way to Sully yet.
neglectedbooks.com Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · Aug 6
Kathleen Sully uses death as punctuation in A Man Talking to Seagulls (1959). The sixth of her novels that I read, it led me to speculate that two themes dominate her work: life is chaotic and rarely comprehensible; and death is inevitable and never more than a breath away.

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · Sep 27
Reading this today, my second by Sully both thanks to @neglectedbooks.com. It’s inexplicable to me that the verve for republishing mid century novelists like Comyns et al hasn’t found its way to Sully yet.
neglectedbooks.com Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · Aug 6
Kathleen Sully uses death as punctuation in A Man Talking to Seagulls (1959). The sixth of her novels that I read, it led me to speculate that two themes dominate her work: life is chaotic and rarely comprehensible; and death is inevitable and never more than a breath away.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Sep 26
@benjaminnathans.bsky.social latest book To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause has been #shortlisted for The 2025 Cundill History Prize. Listen to his interview on @historyextra.bsky.social with Danny Bird here: buff.ly/FgwuOEL
Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Sep 23
Honestly, it is so hilariously inept that it reads as satire.

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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · Sep 21
In "Falling Far and Fast," Yale Law Dean Robert Post, a leading First Amendment Scholar, writes that "for the first time, I have become frightened that freedom of speech in America might actually be endangered." verfassungsblog.de/turn-against...
I have been studying and teaching First Amendment law for more than forty years, and in all that time I have been more or less confident that basic minima of freedom of speech would remain unscathed in the United States. It was the one constitutional right that inspired widespread allegiance and agreement. But this week, for the first time, I have become frightened that freedom of speech in America might actually be endangered. Authoritarianism, with its trademark suppression of free political discussion, looms on our horizon. Wheel of power Since the 1930s, when the Supreme Court first began to protect First Amendment rights, it has safeguarded freedom of speech because “the maintenance of the opportunity for free political discussion to the end that government may be responsive to the will of the people and that changes may be obtained by lawful means, an opportunity essential to the security of the Republic, is a fundamental principle of our constitutional system.” For all its many failings and lapses, the American Court has largely defended the First Amendment “as the guardian of our democracy,” seeking to construct a system in which “authority . . . is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opin­ion by authority.” The First Amendment embodies the basic Aristotelian principle of democracy: citizens must agree to take turns ruling and being ruled. Those out of power can make their case in the public sphere to alter public opinion and take control of government in the next election. Free speech ensures that those who are ruled will have the opportunity to persuade others to invest them with the authority to rule in the future. Free speech turns the wheel of power. To suppress speech is to freeze that wheel. It is to choke off pathways of change and hence, as Louis Brandeis pointed out long ago, “to discourage thought, hope and imagination” by stoking the “hate” of the repressed, which constitutes a “menace” to “stable government.” Full text at https://verfassungsblog.de/turn-against-free-speech-america/