Jennifer Sears
@jennifersears.bsky.social
Writer, teacher-person. Forthcoming: What Mennonite Girls are Good For (U of Iowa Press). Brooklyn is home. http://jennifer-sears.com
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Exclusive Cover Reveal of “What Mennonite Girls Are Good For” by Jennifer Sears: Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of What Mennonite Girls Are Good For by Jennifer Sears, which will be published on November 25, 2025 by the University of Iowa Press. You can pre-order your copy here.…
Exclusive Cover Reveal of “What Mennonite Girls Are Good For” by Jennifer Sears
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of What Mennonite Girls Are Good For by Jennifer Sears, which will be published on November 25, 2025 by the University of Iowa Press. You can pre-order your copy here. At the heart of What Mennonite Girls Are Good For is Ruthie’s lonely search for love and […]
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The book is almost here! Book Launch on Nov. 21 at Books Are Magic with Mary Gaitskill. Details are in the post!
Almost Here - What Mennonite Girls Are Good For
Book Launch with Mary Gaitskill: Friday, Nov. 21 at Books Are Magic
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November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The book is almost here! Book Launch on Nov. 21 at Books Are Magic with Mary Gaitskill. Details are in the post!
Bleak House by Charles Dickens: Day 7, Chapter 9
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Jennifer Sears on APS Together
“I don't know how it is, I seem to be always writing about myself.”
The comic opening to this Ch. 6 of Bleak House has such a modern edge. I also noticed the chapter subtitle, "Signs and Tokens" and...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Bleak House by Charles Dickens: Day 7, Chapter 9
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Saw Ibsen's "Wild Duck" at the Theater for a New Audience through Sept. 28: no frills set and a great cast, including Alexander Hurt, William Hurt's son. Theater seems more important than ever right now
September 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Saw Ibsen's "Wild Duck" at the Theater for a New Audience through Sept. 28: no frills set and a great cast, including Alexander Hurt, William Hurt's son. Theater seems more important than ever right now
Thanks for the repost! Excited about this...
Exclusive Cover Reveal of “What Mennonite Girls Are Good For” by Jennifer Sears: Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of What Mennonite Girls Are Good For by Jennifer Sears, which will be published on November 25, 2025 by the University of Iowa Press. You can pre-order your copy here.…
Exclusive Cover Reveal of “What Mennonite Girls Are Good For” by Jennifer Sears
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of What Mennonite Girls Are Good For by Jennifer Sears, which will be published on November 25, 2025 by the University of Iowa Press. You can pre-order your copy here. At the heart of What Mennonite Girls Are Good For is Ruthie’s lonely search for love and […]
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August 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Thanks for the repost! Excited about this...
Reposted by Jennifer Sears
Exclusive Cover Reveal of “What Mennonite Girls Are Good For” by Jennifer Sears: Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of What Mennonite Girls Are Good For by Jennifer Sears, which will be published on November 25, 2025 by the University of Iowa Press. You can pre-order your copy here.…
Exclusive Cover Reveal of “What Mennonite Girls Are Good For” by Jennifer Sears
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of What Mennonite Girls Are Good For by Jennifer Sears, which will be published on November 25, 2025 by the University of Iowa Press. You can pre-order your copy here. At the heart of What Mennonite Girls Are Good For is Ruthie’s lonely search for love and […]
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August 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Exclusive Cover Reveal of “What Mennonite Girls Are Good For” by Jennifer Sears: Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of What Mennonite Girls Are Good For by Jennifer Sears, which will be published on November 25, 2025 by the University of Iowa Press. You can pre-order your copy here.…
Book News: What Mennonite Girls are Good For
Post in which I talk a bit about process of my forthcoming book and about the cover reveal on Electric Literature! open.substack.com/pub/siomniaf...
Post in which I talk a bit about process of my forthcoming book and about the cover reveal on Electric Literature! open.substack.com/pub/siomniaf...
Book News: What Mennonite Girls are Good For
Cover reveal on Electric Literature and a bit on the book's undercurrents......
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August 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Book News: What Mennonite Girls are Good For
Post in which I talk a bit about process of my forthcoming book and about the cover reveal on Electric Literature! open.substack.com/pub/siomniaf...
Post in which I talk a bit about process of my forthcoming book and about the cover reveal on Electric Literature! open.substack.com/pub/siomniaf...
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NANO: New American Notes Online is happy to join Bluesky and to announce the publication of issue 17: The Interview.
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July 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
NANO: New American Notes Online is happy to join Bluesky and to announce the publication of issue 17: The Interview.
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Wrote this last month after another harrowing #APStogether read. This one led by Honor Moore.
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On Finishing Duras’ The Lover above the Sea
“Fifteen and a half….. I can see it’s all there...."
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July 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Wrote this last month after another harrowing #APStogether read. This one led by Honor Moore.
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Brooklyn morning….
May 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Brooklyn morning….
This essay went straight into my bones. Hauntingly beautiful and tragic.
“My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at 16, James in 2024, at 19,” the author Yiyun Li writes. “Both chose suicide.”
The Deaths—and Lives—of Two Sons
The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died.
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April 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This essay went straight into my bones. Hauntingly beautiful and tragic.
Reading The Odyssey in 2025
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Reading The Odyssey in 2025
An escape into tears. . .
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April 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Reading The Odyssey in 2025
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We arrived at the end of this 40 day odyssey reading the the Odyssey by Homer. A great group read with A Public Space and #APStogether
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“Stop this war. . .” the last line of dialogue is Athena’s command to Odysseus. Coming at the end, the shape of the Odyssey/Wilson’s translation can read like a meditation on humanity's blood thirst a...
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March 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
We arrived at the end of this 40 day odyssey reading the the Odyssey by Homer. A great group read with A Public Space and #APStogether
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On Reading Nabokov. Everywhere.
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On Reading Nabokov. Everywhere.
“. . .mumble, mumble, lyrical wave, mumble, lyrical wave, mumble, lyrical wave, mumble, fantastic climax, mumble, mumble. . .”
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March 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
On Reading Nabokov. Everywhere.
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Yes! I need to put this back on my syllabus…..thanks for the reminder.
got to spend two days teaching Omelas to highschoolers and have thus participated in some small way in the noblest & highest goal of literature: to haunt some kids
March 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Yes! I need to put this back on my syllabus…..thanks for the reminder.
Details of a Sunset, Feb 27
February 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Details of a Sunset, Feb 27
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Please join us on 24 March for the latest MLA webinar, on legislative encroachment into higher ed:
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Join our free webinar to learn how advocates are defending DEIA, academic freedom, and the right to protest and to get strategies for your own campus and community.
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February 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Please join us on 24 March for the latest MLA webinar, on legislative encroachment into higher ed:
The group read of Odysseus landed on Ithaca in today’s pages. Kind of longing for Athena’s mist for these times we’re in now. #APStogether
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The Odyssey by Homer: Day 21
Book 13, lines 188-440
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February 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The group read of Odysseus landed on Ithaca in today’s pages. Kind of longing for Athena’s mist for these times we’re in now. #APStogether
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I think about this sentence, pulled from a NYTBR, kinda all the time.
February 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I think about this sentence, pulled from a NYTBR, kinda all the time.
On reading Ernaux in Paris….
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Reading Annie Ernaux’s The Years in Paris
“It will be a slippery narrative composed in an unremitting continuous tense, absolute, devouring the present as it goes, all the way to the final image of a life.” from Annie Ernaux’s The Years
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February 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
On reading Ernaux in Paris….
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Be well, everyone.
You Must Believe In Spring
Bill Evans · You Must Believe In Spring (Remastered Version) · Song · 1981
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February 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Be well, everyone.
“Funny….and unbearable.” Odysseus begs the poet to stop in the narratively stunning Book 8 of the Odyssey. Reading along with #APStogether
The Odyssey by Homer: Day 11
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The Odyssey by Homer: Day 11
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The Odyssey by Homer: Day 11
Book 8, lines 255-586
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February 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“Funny….and unbearable.” Odysseus begs the poet to stop in the narratively stunning Book 8 of the Odyssey. Reading along with #APStogether
The Odyssey by Homer: Day 11
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The Odyssey by Homer: Day 11
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Such a great interview with the always brilliant Lance Olsen. From his jungle years in Venezuela, to collage writing theory and creating an “action painting in prose," to the rushed list of loved books at the end…
Such a fun time talking to the wonderfully read Ben Lindner on Beyond the Zero about some books that led me to reading & writing, what I'm reading now, & my novels Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel After David Bowie & Absolute Away:
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Lance Olsen - ABSOLUTE AWAY
Beyond The Zero · Episode
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February 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Such a great interview with the always brilliant Lance Olsen. From his jungle years in Venezuela, to collage writing theory and creating an “action painting in prose," to the rushed list of loved books at the end…
“Poems can break our hearts.”Stefania Heim. This reading group of the Odyssey (of pain) is one way to survive right now. #APStogether
The Odyssey by Homer: Day 10
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The Odyssey by Homer: Day 10
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The Odyssey by Homer: Day 10
Book 8, lines 1-254
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February 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“Poems can break our hearts.”Stefania Heim. This reading group of the Odyssey (of pain) is one way to survive right now. #APStogether
The Odyssey by Homer: Day 10
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The Odyssey by Homer: Day 10
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From The New Yorker exhibit opening soon at the NYPL: “Author’s Cries are in Handwriting”
February 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
From The New Yorker exhibit opening soon at the NYPL: “Author’s Cries are in Handwriting”