Christiane M Andrews
@cmandrews.bsky.social
Author: Wolfish, Spindlefish & Stars • 2023 Le Guin Prize Shortlist • Rep: Sara Crowe Literary • she/her • cmandrews.com
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Another good comment. "The arts and humanities classroom really helps us understand the world. We’re comfortable being in complexity. We're comfortable with the question and not the answer. And if there's a time when there's not an answer and we don't know exactly what to do, it’s this moment."
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Another good comment. "The arts and humanities classroom really helps us understand the world. We’re comfortable being in complexity. We're comfortable with the question and not the answer. And if there's a time when there's not an answer and we don't know exactly what to do, it’s this moment."
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“...resumes...one majored in philosophy & one majored in data science — all else being equal — I'm going to hire the...philosophy major...There's a boldness to studying philosophy in this environment...a risk to following your passion & to thinking beyond what the culture tells you to do." #arts
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“...resumes...one majored in philosophy & one majored in data science — all else being equal — I'm going to hire the...philosophy major...There's a boldness to studying philosophy in this environment...a risk to following your passion & to thinking beyond what the culture tells you to do." #arts
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"So here you are now, ready to attack the lines of the first page."
November 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
"So here you are now, ready to attack the lines of the first page."
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sad minds think alike,
Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle
November 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
sad minds think alike,
Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle
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Mark Rothko, Earth Green (detail), 1955
November 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Mark Rothko, Earth Green (detail), 1955
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have been waiting for, pining for, a particular book to arrive.. there's no other sadness like it, the hopeless stare as the postie walks right past your address, the blank area beneath your letterbox flap, your own empty hands...the impostor items in their wretched business envelopes..
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
have been waiting for, pining for, a particular book to arrive.. there's no other sadness like it, the hopeless stare as the postie walks right past your address, the blank area beneath your letterbox flap, your own empty hands...the impostor items in their wretched business envelopes..
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Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
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THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?
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Bacchus, liberally festooned with grapes, casually pours drink for his little panther (!), wine trellises adorn the slopes of a deceptively-slumbering Vesuvius, & serpent Agathodaemon represents ‘good spirit’ of vineyards (Wall fresco, House of the Centenary, Pompeii)
November 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Bacchus, liberally festooned with grapes, casually pours drink for his little panther (!), wine trellises adorn the slopes of a deceptively-slumbering Vesuvius, & serpent Agathodaemon represents ‘good spirit’ of vineyards (Wall fresco, House of the Centenary, Pompeii)
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🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
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Concerto Grosso No. 11 in G Major: II. Allegro
YouTube video by Avison Ensemble - Topic
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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In particular Aneesh Bhoopathy, from the design coop Forge, who designed the identity. A brilliant reminder to *employ human creatives!*
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo
The bodega-influenced visual language of an outsider campaign.
www.curbed.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
In particular Aneesh Bhoopathy, from the design coop Forge, who designed the identity. A brilliant reminder to *employ human creatives!*
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
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More of this, please! 👇
"It’s the latest example of what’s known as social prescribing, in which health-care providers prescribe things that are normally outside the scope of medicine, but can have tremendous impact on people’s health and well-being — like art, nature or community" activities."
"It’s the latest example of what’s known as social prescribing, in which health-care providers prescribe things that are normally outside the scope of medicine, but can have tremendous impact on people’s health and well-being — like art, nature or community" activities."
Doctors in Montreal can now prescribe their patients tickets to the orchestra | CBC Radio
Doctors in Montreal are prescribing music as medicine.
www.cbc.ca
November 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
More of this, please! 👇
"It’s the latest example of what’s known as social prescribing, in which health-care providers prescribe things that are normally outside the scope of medicine, but can have tremendous impact on people’s health and well-being — like art, nature or community" activities."
"It’s the latest example of what’s known as social prescribing, in which health-care providers prescribe things that are normally outside the scope of medicine, but can have tremendous impact on people’s health and well-being — like art, nature or community" activities."
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In our new issue, eight writers examine the worldwide decline in deep literacy. Read Nicolás Medina Mora, Annette Hug, Kim Hyesoon, Zhang Yueran, Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, Yassin Adnan, Valeria Villalobos Guízar, and Alain Mabanckou on global brainrot.
Brain Rot Without Borders | Baffler Forum
There’s no point in denying it anymore: literature as we know it is well on its way to becoming a lost art.
thebaffler.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
In our new issue, eight writers examine the worldwide decline in deep literacy. Read Nicolás Medina Mora, Annette Hug, Kim Hyesoon, Zhang Yueran, Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, Yassin Adnan, Valeria Villalobos Guízar, and Alain Mabanckou on global brainrot.
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Athens hoopoe street-art
November 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Athens hoopoe street-art
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“Supernatural horror is a technique for restoring the right kind of emotion to the horrifying things that people do or that are done to people. You’re reestablishing that a terrifying thing is, in fact, terrifying.”
- @kellylink.bsky.social
- @kellylink.bsky.social
If stories are like magic tricks, then Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link are magicians. The two masters of fiction and horror talk shop in this conversation from our fairy-tale issue (a.k.a., perfect mood reading for this spooky week).
People Behaving Badly
Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link on fairy tales and horror
orionmagazine.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“Supernatural horror is a technique for restoring the right kind of emotion to the horrifying things that people do or that are done to people. You’re reestablishing that a terrifying thing is, in fact, terrifying.”
- @kellylink.bsky.social
- @kellylink.bsky.social
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A new poem in the new issue of Agni @agnimagazine.bsky.social 🫨
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
A new poem in the new issue of Agni @agnimagazine.bsky.social 🫨
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"They found that art positively influences the immune, hormone and nervous systems all at once – something never previously recorded.
The findings suggest that seeing original art not only moves people emotionally, but also calms the body and promotes health and wellbeing."
#Art #WellBeing 😌🖼🧘🏾♀️
The findings suggest that seeing original art not only moves people emotionally, but also calms the body and promotes health and wellbeing."
#Art #WellBeing 😌🖼🧘🏾♀️
October 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
"They found that art positively influences the immune, hormone and nervous systems all at once – something never previously recorded.
The findings suggest that seeing original art not only moves people emotionally, but also calms the body and promotes health and wellbeing."
#Art #WellBeing 😌🖼🧘🏾♀️
The findings suggest that seeing original art not only moves people emotionally, but also calms the body and promotes health and wellbeing."
#Art #WellBeing 😌🖼🧘🏾♀️
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On Dylan Thomas's birthday, a picture of his writing shed, at his home in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales
📷 Epics, May 1979
📷 Epics, May 1979
October 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
On Dylan Thomas's birthday, a picture of his writing shed, at his home in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales
📷 Epics, May 1979
📷 Epics, May 1979
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Remembering Ursula Le Guin on her birthday 🎂
📷 Dan Tuffs, 2005
"We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, & fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night."
📷 Dan Tuffs, 2005
"We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, & fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night."
October 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Remembering Ursula Le Guin on her birthday 🎂
📷 Dan Tuffs, 2005
"We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, & fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night."
📷 Dan Tuffs, 2005
"We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, & fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night."