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Okay, so let's do officially do this! a slow-read of Macbeth with Sunday discussion threads starting November 23rd! #SundayMacbethChat
Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Okay, so let's do officially do this! a slow-read of Macbeth with Sunday discussion threads starting November 23rd! #SundayMacbethChat
Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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I've got a weird little piece in here.
November 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I've got a weird little piece in here.
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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#💙 #booksky #bookreview #stillalive
STILL ALIVE
By lj pemberton
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
5💀s
My full review is on goodreads , where I yammer on for awhile about this book, this author , Vonnegut, Time and that elusive thing called "home"
STILL ALIVE
By lj pemberton
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
5💀s
My full review is on goodreads , where I yammer on for awhile about this book, this author , Vonnegut, Time and that elusive thing called "home"
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
#💙 #booksky #bookreview #stillalive
STILL ALIVE
By lj pemberton
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
5💀s
My full review is on goodreads , where I yammer on for awhile about this book, this author , Vonnegut, Time and that elusive thing called "home"
STILL ALIVE
By lj pemberton
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
5💀s
My full review is on goodreads , where I yammer on for awhile about this book, this author , Vonnegut, Time and that elusive thing called "home"
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it occurs to me that i have a book coming out in like six days and i have not yet told you what it's about
my bad
if you like any of the following you might fuck with it 💕
✅ indie sleaze
✅ chaos duos
✅ sexual tension
✅ dual POV with frankly unhinged voice
✅ rock n roll
my bad
if you like any of the following you might fuck with it 💕
✅ indie sleaze
✅ chaos duos
✅ sexual tension
✅ dual POV with frankly unhinged voice
✅ rock n roll
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
it occurs to me that i have a book coming out in like six days and i have not yet told you what it's about
my bad
if you like any of the following you might fuck with it 💕
✅ indie sleaze
✅ chaos duos
✅ sexual tension
✅ dual POV with frankly unhinged voice
✅ rock n roll
my bad
if you like any of the following you might fuck with it 💕
✅ indie sleaze
✅ chaos duos
✅ sexual tension
✅ dual POV with frankly unhinged voice
✅ rock n roll
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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In an unintentional Halloween-themed #booksky, I'm reading The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger, published by @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. Very ghosty and spooky so far, terrific writing, very character-driven, wonderful atmosphere. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.
October 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
In an unintentional Halloween-themed #booksky, I'm reading The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger, published by @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. Very ghosty and spooky so far, terrific writing, very character-driven, wonderful atmosphere. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.
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One of the things I wind up telling college students (bear with me) is that although they are fluent readers of English, their reading skills have not stopped improving. If they keep reading things that challenge them, they will be better readers from year to year.
Part of what improves is … (1/7)
Part of what improves is … (1/7)
1. We shd ask HS students to read old books. Some love them. Many learn. 2. No book fits all readers. 3. Old language more often alienates young readers. 4. Where possible HS & intro college English classes can mix old & new books. 5. Alas, that means short books.... but it also means poems!
One might even argue that the Scarlet Letter not being for you is a life lesson.
November 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
One of the things I wind up telling college students (bear with me) is that although they are fluent readers of English, their reading skills have not stopped improving. If they keep reading things that challenge them, they will be better readers from year to year.
Part of what improves is … (1/7)
Part of what improves is … (1/7)
Kind of curious how leaning on audio of texts in the classroom impacts reading stamina.
November 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Kind of curious how leaning on audio of texts in the classroom impacts reading stamina.
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November 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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it's not good for kids to read books because it will prepare them for college, or for work, or for seminary, it's good for them in the moment because it helps them grow, in any number of unpredictable directions
October 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
it's not good for kids to read books because it will prepare them for college, or for work, or for seminary, it's good for them in the moment because it helps them grow, in any number of unpredictable directions
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“Dataism is nihilism. It gives up on any and all meaning. Data and numbers are not narrative; they are additive. Meaning, on the other hand, is based on narration.”
Between teaching The Circle and the endless AI discourse on my timeline, I think about Byung-Chul Han’s Psychopolitics daily.
Between teaching The Circle and the endless AI discourse on my timeline, I think about Byung-Chul Han’s Psychopolitics daily.
"That's one of the exciting things about generative AI: being able to take a student's knowledge graph and overlay it with their interest graph."
what
www.cognitiverevolution.ai/2-sigma-in-2...
what
www.cognitiverevolution.ai/2-sigma-in-2...
2-Sigma in 2 Hours: How Alpha Schools are Using AI to Revolutionize Education
MacKenzie Price, founder of Alpha School & 2 Hour Learning, discusses her revolutionary educational model that uses AI to enable students to master traditional academics in just 2 hours per day while ...
www.cognitiverevolution.ai
October 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
“Dataism is nihilism. It gives up on any and all meaning. Data and numbers are not narrative; they are additive. Meaning, on the other hand, is based on narration.”
Between teaching The Circle and the endless AI discourse on my timeline, I think about Byung-Chul Han’s Psychopolitics daily.
Between teaching The Circle and the endless AI discourse on my timeline, I think about Byung-Chul Han’s Psychopolitics daily.
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I wrote about Weapons and all the stuff it brought up for me about active shooter trainings. Link, as they say, below 👇
October 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I wrote about Weapons and all the stuff it brought up for me about active shooter trainings. Link, as they say, below 👇
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They’re all live! Listen to the last ten episodes of Malarkey Public Radio in any order. There’s something good for writers in every single episode.
It’s been fun to dip my toe back into podcasting for @malarkeybooks.bsky.social after a long hiatus.
It’s been fun to dip my toe back into podcasting for @malarkeybooks.bsky.social after a long hiatus.
October 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
They’re all live! Listen to the last ten episodes of Malarkey Public Radio in any order. There’s something good for writers in every single episode.
It’s been fun to dip my toe back into podcasting for @malarkeybooks.bsky.social after a long hiatus.
It’s been fun to dip my toe back into podcasting for @malarkeybooks.bsky.social after a long hiatus.
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Frankenstein was also like a tech bro in that he had a lot of family wealth and at the end of the day all he really wanted was male friendship
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains. n.pr/3L5exuu
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
n.pr
October 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Frankenstein was also like a tech bro in that he had a lot of family wealth and at the end of the day all he really wanted was male friendship
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After ditching substack our podcast was left in limbo but we finally have all the episodes of Malarkey Public Radio 2.0 back up, hosted on our squarespace site but available through whatever you use to listen to podcasts. Ad-free!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Malarkey Public Radio
Fiction Podcast · Malarkey Public Radio features interviews and discussions with indie writers.
podcasts.apple.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
After ditching substack our podcast was left in limbo but we finally have all the episodes of Malarkey Public Radio 2.0 back up, hosted on our squarespace site but available through whatever you use to listen to podcasts. Ad-free!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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The Barre Incidents is a Horror/Sci Fi book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, and learning cryptids and banished, embittered gods are real. You can order here through @malarkeybooks.bsky.social !
malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...
malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...
The Barre Incidents, a novel by Lauren Bolger — Malarkey
The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger, author of Kill Radio Cover design by Matthew Revert When Kara's miner father dies of Silicosis, she grapples with the old horror stories in their hometown of B...
malarkeybooks.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The Barre Incidents is a Horror/Sci Fi book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, and learning cryptids and banished, embittered gods are real. You can order here through @malarkeybooks.bsky.social !
malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...
malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...
Trying to help students get comfortable in with Dickens’ syntax, I stumbled across a post about sentence diagramming by a classical education guy; nothing against sentence diagramming but there’s probably no way to accurately describe it as “classical education.”
October 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Trying to help students get comfortable in with Dickens’ syntax, I stumbled across a post about sentence diagramming by a classical education guy; nothing against sentence diagramming but there’s probably no way to accurately describe it as “classical education.”
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I'm here at what Republicans are calling the Hate America Rally in Des Moines where an Iowa Jazz and Blues Hall of Fame singer just sang a rendition of the National Anthem while people waved American flags.
They must be up to something...
They must be up to something...
October 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I'm here at what Republicans are calling the Hate America Rally in Des Moines where an Iowa Jazz and Blues Hall of Fame singer just sang a rendition of the National Anthem while people waved American flags.
They must be up to something...
They must be up to something...
Teaching tip: recite a poem from memory. 👍
October 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Teaching tip: recite a poem from memory. 👍
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This single story is worth the cost of my year's subscription to
@wired.com
@wired.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This single story is worth the cost of my year's subscription to
@wired.com
@wired.com