Contemporaries at Post45
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Always open-access, Contemporaries publishes curated conversations and critiques in the form of clusters—groups of essays centering around specific themes, topics, and discourses.
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Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
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New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!
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New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!
Contemporaries - Post45
Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
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May 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!
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Hi Bluesky! The Post45 Data Collective is officially here.
We publish open datasets on literary prizes, fellowships, books in translation, feminist magazines, NYT bestsellers, and more. data.post45.org
Follow us for updates—we’ve got a busy summer ahead!
We publish open datasets on literary prizes, fellowships, books in translation, feminist magazines, NYT bestsellers, and more. data.post45.org
Follow us for updates—we’ve got a busy summer ahead!
June 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hi Bluesky! The Post45 Data Collective is officially here.
We publish open datasets on literary prizes, fellowships, books in translation, feminist magazines, NYT bestsellers, and more. data.post45.org
Follow us for updates—we’ve got a busy summer ahead!
We publish open datasets on literary prizes, fellowships, books in translation, feminist magazines, NYT bestsellers, and more. data.post45.org
Follow us for updates—we’ve got a busy summer ahead!
It’s true: Pod45 is back after a brief hiatus! Here we have an episode based on our Samuel Delany cluster, ed. @blakestricklin.bsky.social . The podcast ft. Stricklin in conversation w @franciscondine.bsky.social, Y Howard, Christopher Breu, Rebekah Sheldon, & @kirinwgrene.bsky.social !
Today’s morning listen (and read!) is the Post45 Contemporaries @atpost45.bsky.social podcast + cluster, “Samuel Delany’s Improbable Communities”
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Episode 21: Samuel Delany
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June 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It’s true: Pod45 is back after a brief hiatus! Here we have an episode based on our Samuel Delany cluster, ed. @blakestricklin.bsky.social . The podcast ft. Stricklin in conversation w @franciscondine.bsky.social, Y Howard, Christopher Breu, Rebekah Sheldon, & @kirinwgrene.bsky.social !
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Today’s morning listen (and read!) is the Post45 Contemporaries @atpost45.bsky.social podcast + cluster, “Samuel Delany’s Improbable Communities”
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Episode 21: Samuel Delany
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June 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Today’s morning listen (and read!) is the Post45 Contemporaries @atpost45.bsky.social podcast + cluster, “Samuel Delany’s Improbable Communities”
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Kick off Pride by reading @uncannydazzler.bsky.social’s great essay about Rickie and Delia’s Haddaway dance in @atpost45.bsky.social’s latest issue on My So-Called Life 🪩
Thrilled to contribute a short essay to the My So-Called Life cluster in @atpost45.bsky.social! My piece reflects on Rickie Vasquez's iconic dance scene, the affective politics of Brownness, and the persistence of racial and sexual hierarchies. Check it out! #MySoCalledLife #Post45
Liberation on the Dance Floor: Rickie Vasquez and the Affective Politics of Brownness in My So-Called Life - Post45
The eleventh episode of My So-Called Life (1994-1995) includes a brief but influential scene that I have returned to repeatedly over the years since it first aired: Rickie Vasquez (Wilson Cruz), a que...
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June 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Kick off Pride by reading @uncannydazzler.bsky.social’s great essay about Rickie and Delia’s Haddaway dance in @atpost45.bsky.social’s latest issue on My So-Called Life 🪩
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i am so proud & honored to have gotten to write about My So-Called Life and the genre of the teen drama (& to put all of the hours of my life burned away watching teen TV to use) for the @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on MSCL, edited by the brilliant @dfmorgan.bsky.social! post45.org/2025/05/my-s...
My So-Called Teen Dramas - Post45
I came into adolescence in the age of the supernatural teen drama. Spanning across novels, television, and film from the mid-aughts through the 2010s, the likes of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight, The CW’s...
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May 31, 2025 at 12:26 AM
i am so proud & honored to have gotten to write about My So-Called Life and the genre of the teen drama (& to put all of the hours of my life burned away watching teen TV to use) for the @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on MSCL, edited by the brilliant @dfmorgan.bsky.social! post45.org/2025/05/my-s...
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Check this out! What a blast to read, write, edit, and think about My So-Called Life 30 years after it went off the air too soon.
New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!
Contemporaries - Post45
Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
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May 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Check this out! What a blast to read, write, edit, and think about My So-Called Life 30 years after it went off the air too soon.
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This essay was a blast to write! Thanks to @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social for recommending me as a contributor, to @dfmorgan.bsky.social for being a fabulous editor, and to @carlospescador.bsky.social for his expert feedback.
MSCL’s main character, Angela Chase, is both loved and abhorred for her over-analyzing. Her fraught monologues have been read as both the center of the show’s relatability & as whining and entitled. @cmceleney.bsky.social probes this ambivalence in "A Lover’s Discord" post45.org/2025/05/a-lo...
A Lover’s Discord: Angela’s Overanalyzing - Post45
“But what above love?” asks Rita Felski in The Limits of Critique, as part of her attempt to reconsider the role that “passionate attachments” play in academic criticism.((Rita Felski, The Limits of C...
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May 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This essay was a blast to write! Thanks to @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social for recommending me as a contributor, to @dfmorgan.bsky.social for being a fabulous editor, and to @carlospescador.bsky.social for his expert feedback.
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It's, like, a feast.
MY SO CALLED LIFE at 30! new on Post45! post45.org/sections/con...
My So-Called Life at 30 - Post45
Edited by Danielle Fuentes Morgan
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May 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It's, like, a feast.
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My So-Called Life at 30! Edited by the amazing @dfmorgan.bsky.social and with an essay by one of my favorite practitioners of the art of overanalysis @cmceleney.bsky.social
That’s right! Come thru at post45.org/contemporaries to see this magnificent cluster, edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social !
May 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
My So-Called Life at 30! Edited by the amazing @dfmorgan.bsky.social and with an essay by one of my favorite practitioners of the art of overanalysis @cmceleney.bsky.social
That’s right! Come thru at post45.org/contemporaries to see this magnificent cluster, edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social !
May 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
That’s right! Come thru at post45.org/contemporaries to see this magnificent cluster, edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social !
New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!
Contemporaries - Post45
Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
post45.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!
🗣️ *My So-Called Life* turned 30 (1994-1995) this year! We've got a cluster for you, stay tuned—
Ed. by @dfmorgan.bsky.social, & ft. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social, Steven T. Gravatt, @cmceleney.bsky.social, @elishacohn.bsky.social, @mythrijega.bsky.social, @ehl.bsky.social, @oliviastowell.bsky.social
Ed. by @dfmorgan.bsky.social, & ft. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social, Steven T. Gravatt, @cmceleney.bsky.social, @elishacohn.bsky.social, @mythrijega.bsky.social, @ehl.bsky.social, @oliviastowell.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🗣️ *My So-Called Life* turned 30 (1994-1995) this year! We've got a cluster for you, stay tuned—
Ed. by @dfmorgan.bsky.social, & ft. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social, Steven T. Gravatt, @cmceleney.bsky.social, @elishacohn.bsky.social, @mythrijega.bsky.social, @ehl.bsky.social, @oliviastowell.bsky.social
Ed. by @dfmorgan.bsky.social, & ft. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social, Steven T. Gravatt, @cmceleney.bsky.social, @elishacohn.bsky.social, @mythrijega.bsky.social, @ehl.bsky.social, @oliviastowell.bsky.social
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In my pursuit of descriptive games writing over prescriptive, I love reading this.
Also this is a beautiful way to frame the act of analyzing a work:
"Close reading requires someone you want to persuade... whose judgment you care about, and for whom you want your ideas about art and life to matter"
Also this is a beautiful way to frame the act of analyzing a work:
"Close reading requires someone you want to persuade... whose judgment you care about, and for whom you want your ideas about art and life to matter"
Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector
In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...
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May 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
In my pursuit of descriptive games writing over prescriptive, I love reading this.
Also this is a beautiful way to frame the act of analyzing a work:
"Close reading requires someone you want to persuade... whose judgment you care about, and for whom you want your ideas about art and life to matter"
Also this is a beautiful way to frame the act of analyzing a work:
"Close reading requires someone you want to persuade... whose judgment you care about, and for whom you want your ideas about art and life to matter"
🚌🚉♨️ stop by Post45.org/contemporaries for our latest cluster! “Mobilizing Literature: A Response”
April 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
🚌🚉♨️ stop by Post45.org/contemporaries for our latest cluster! “Mobilizing Literature: A Response”
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I read the Lawrence essay in ms for ELH, so it’s even more exciting to see it elicit such a stellar set of commentaries.
✍️ 🗣️ 🛎️ Check out our newest cluster!
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We take the occasion to think through @jefflawcdm.bsky.social's essay, "Mobilizing Literature," & consider what it means for Post45 to be a literary critical institution. How do social movements offer a different literary history?
post45.org/sections/con...
We take the occasion to think through @jefflawcdm.bsky.social's essay, "Mobilizing Literature," & consider what it means for Post45 to be a literary critical institution. How do social movements offer a different literary history?
March 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I read the Lawrence essay in ms for ELH, so it’s even more exciting to see it elicit such a stellar set of commentaries.
✍️ 🗣️ 🛎️ Check out our newest cluster!
post45.org/sections/con...
We take the occasion to think through @jefflawcdm.bsky.social's essay, "Mobilizing Literature," & consider what it means for Post45 to be a literary critical institution. How do social movements offer a different literary history?
post45.org/sections/con...
We take the occasion to think through @jefflawcdm.bsky.social's essay, "Mobilizing Literature," & consider what it means for Post45 to be a literary critical institution. How do social movements offer a different literary history?
March 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
✍️ 🗣️ 🛎️ Check out our newest cluster!
post45.org/sections/con...
We take the occasion to think through @jefflawcdm.bsky.social's essay, "Mobilizing Literature," & consider what it means for Post45 to be a literary critical institution. How do social movements offer a different literary history?
post45.org/sections/con...
We take the occasion to think through @jefflawcdm.bsky.social's essay, "Mobilizing Literature," & consider what it means for Post45 to be a literary critical institution. How do social movements offer a different literary history?
It’s true! And we're live with "Mobilizing Literature: A Response."
We’re super happy that @jefflawcdm.bsky.social's “Mobilizing Literature” essay has generated so much discussion, and that this cluster is a chance to think through the implications of his work.
post45.org/sections/con...
We’re super happy that @jefflawcdm.bsky.social's “Mobilizing Literature” essay has generated so much discussion, and that this cluster is a chance to think through the implications of his work.
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March 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It’s true! And we're live with "Mobilizing Literature: A Response."
We’re super happy that @jefflawcdm.bsky.social's “Mobilizing Literature” essay has generated so much discussion, and that this cluster is a chance to think through the implications of his work.
post45.org/sections/con...
We’re super happy that @jefflawcdm.bsky.social's “Mobilizing Literature” essay has generated so much discussion, and that this cluster is a chance to think through the implications of his work.
post45.org/sections/con...
We have a super secret surprise cluster for you all tomorrow! It’s going to be a fun one, with responses to @jefflawcdm.bsky.social’s ELH article, “Movilizing Literature.” Ft. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social, @franciscondine.bsky.social,
@isanchezprado.bsky.social, Cheryl Higashida, Irvin Hunt III
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@isanchezprado.bsky.social, Cheryl Higashida, Irvin Hunt III
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March 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We have a super secret surprise cluster for you all tomorrow! It’s going to be a fun one, with responses to @jefflawcdm.bsky.social’s ELH article, “Movilizing Literature.” Ft. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social, @franciscondine.bsky.social,
@isanchezprado.bsky.social, Cheryl Higashida, Irvin Hunt III
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@isanchezprado.bsky.social, Cheryl Higashida, Irvin Hunt III
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Love this article and it makes me want to rewatch The Leftovers: “The hunt for Easter eggs may have started as a fannish practice, but it has now become a hegemonic one, with disconcerting results.”
To @elizabethalsop.bsky.social, "the show’s elevation of the experiential over the explanatory is not so much a single methodology — post-critique versus paranoia, textual erotics versus forensics — as an orientation that allows for experiencing and explicating"
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Let the Mystery Be: The Leftovers and the Limits of Explainer Culture - Post45
No one knows anything on The Leftovers. It’s a state of affairs established in the series pilot, during which several characters accuse each other of “not know[ing] shit” — specifically, about the Sud...
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January 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Love this article and it makes me want to rewatch The Leftovers: “The hunt for Easter eggs may have started as a fannish practice, but it has now become a hegemonic one, with disconcerting results.”
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ICYMI: i co-wrote a conversation on The Leftovers with two of my best friends (interspersed with a short essay by each of us) for the new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on The Leftovers 🎆
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Carrots & Little Sweet Peas - Post45
In early 2020, awash in the emotional lows of the early pandemic, the three of us decided to cope with the uncertain, monotonous days by starting a long-distance “TV club.” Though we all went to the s...
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January 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
ICYMI: i co-wrote a conversation on The Leftovers with two of my best friends (interspersed with a short essay by each of us) for the new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on The Leftovers 🎆
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Does New Year's Day feel like Groundhog's Day?
If so, please read these brilliant essays on THE LEFTOVERS that @annakrauthamer.bsky.social & I shepherded into 2025--a collection of meditations on what is acutely timely and always untimely about the emotional vicissitudes of structural dispossession
If so, please read these brilliant essays on THE LEFTOVERS that @annakrauthamer.bsky.social & I shepherded into 2025--a collection of meditations on what is acutely timely and always untimely about the emotional vicissitudes of structural dispossession
🚨 NEW CLUSTER 🚨
AFTER THE LEFTOVERS
This cluster, editors @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social explain, doesn't "resolve the problem of remainders but responds to the impossibility of wholeness by inquiring into how that impossibility is produced.”
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AFTER THE LEFTOVERS
This cluster, editors @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social explain, doesn't "resolve the problem of remainders but responds to the impossibility of wholeness by inquiring into how that impossibility is produced.”
post45.org/2024/12/afte...
After The Leftovers - Post45
There are two different kinds of leftovers, two different problems they represent. The first problem is long division, which teaches us to let the leftovers be. The leftovers of division are excess qu...
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January 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Does New Year's Day feel like Groundhog's Day?
If so, please read these brilliant essays on THE LEFTOVERS that @annakrauthamer.bsky.social & I shepherded into 2025--a collection of meditations on what is acutely timely and always untimely about the emotional vicissitudes of structural dispossession
If so, please read these brilliant essays on THE LEFTOVERS that @annakrauthamer.bsky.social & I shepherded into 2025--a collection of meditations on what is acutely timely and always untimely about the emotional vicissitudes of structural dispossession
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Great new cluster freshly up at @atpost45.bsky.social - brilliant writing on brilliant television. Thanks to Erica, Anna, and all their contributors for much patience throughout a somewhat protracted editorial and production process on this one.
🚨 NEW CLUSTER 🚨
AFTER THE LEFTOVERS
This cluster, editors @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social explain, doesn't "resolve the problem of remainders but responds to the impossibility of wholeness by inquiring into how that impossibility is produced.”
post45.org/2024/12/afte...
AFTER THE LEFTOVERS
This cluster, editors @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social explain, doesn't "resolve the problem of remainders but responds to the impossibility of wholeness by inquiring into how that impossibility is produced.”
post45.org/2024/12/afte...
After The Leftovers - Post45
There are two different kinds of leftovers, two different problems they represent. The first problem is long division, which teaches us to let the leftovers be. The leftovers of division are excess qu...
post45.org
January 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Great new cluster freshly up at @atpost45.bsky.social - brilliant writing on brilliant television. Thanks to Erica, Anna, and all their contributors for much patience throughout a somewhat protracted editorial and production process on this one.
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i’m so proud to share this piece, cowritten w/ two of my best friends, about what it meant to watch the leftovers together. it is, in certain ways, one of the more vulnerable things i’ve written. grateful to Post45 & to @ericafretwell.bsky.social & @annakrauthamer.bsky.social for having home for it
Finally, @oliviastowell.bsky.social, Hannah Krieshok, and Cecilia Reynolds reflect on a shared experience of watching The Leftovers in the early months of COVID-19. They find a show that "unsettles and unearths questions about what it means to try to survive together"
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Carrots & Little Sweet Peas - Post45
In early 2020, awash in the emotional lows of the early pandemic, the three of us decided to cope with the uncertain, monotonous days by starting a long-distance “TV club.” Though we all went to the s...
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January 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
i’m so proud to share this piece, cowritten w/ two of my best friends, about what it meant to watch the leftovers together. it is, in certain ways, one of the more vulnerable things i’ve written. grateful to Post45 & to @ericafretwell.bsky.social & @annakrauthamer.bsky.social for having home for it
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Happy new year! I wrote about the problem of witnessing the rapture and living to tell the tale in a thrilling new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster coedited by @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social.
Being Here, Leftover - Post45
In its finale, The Leftovers catches us up. Earlier in the season, the series’ third, Nora Durst (Carrie Coon), a US fraud investigator, lands in Australia, having been notified of a machine that prom...
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January 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Happy new year! I wrote about the problem of witnessing the rapture and living to tell the tale in a thrilling new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster coedited by @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social.