Joanna Scutts
@joannascutts.bsky.social
London -> NYC -> Paris. PhD gone public. Writing the history of American women in Paris. Previously: HOTBED (NYC bohemian feminists) THE EXTRA WOMAN (30s spinster glamour) & FIREBRANDS (25 women writers you should know)
www.joannascutts.com
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Life and Work #1: Jenny Saville's dream of the '90s
Hello! You're reading this because you subscribed to my previous newsletter, The Pleasure Of. This is the new, hopefully improved, version, Life + Work, all about the art that makes us, and how we mak...
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I'm playing around with a new newsletter project, Life + Work, all about the art that makes us, and how we make art. Wrote this one about Jenny Saville, the Holy Bible, and 90s London. joanna-scutts.ghost.io/life-and-wor...
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hi! are you someone who:
1) cares about close reading and has a background in literary studies
2) teaches 12th grade English OR freshman writing?
if so, will you get in touch with @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and me?
we want to talk! well, actually, we want to listen.
1) cares about close reading and has a background in literary studies
2) teaches 12th grade English OR freshman writing?
if so, will you get in touch with @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and me?
we want to talk! well, actually, we want to listen.
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
hi! are you someone who:
1) cares about close reading and has a background in literary studies
2) teaches 12th grade English OR freshman writing?
if so, will you get in touch with @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and me?
we want to talk! well, actually, we want to listen.
1) cares about close reading and has a background in literary studies
2) teaches 12th grade English OR freshman writing?
if so, will you get in touch with @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and me?
we want to talk! well, actually, we want to listen.
Just read that the kids are using “that’s AI” to mean “that’s bullshit” and nothing has made me breathe out so fully in months.
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Just read that the kids are using “that’s AI” to mean “that’s bullshit” and nothing has made me breathe out so fully in months.
Do it! FYI if your book is incorrectly listed (mine had some details inc publisher wrong) - you can still submit with correct info, I was told.
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Do it! FYI if your book is incorrectly listed (mine had some details inc publisher wrong) - you can still submit with correct info, I was told.
B&N opening 60+ new stores across the US in 2025 seems noteworthy to me, in a 90s-revival / analogue future kinda way
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
B&N opening 60+ new stores across the US in 2025 seems noteworthy to me, in a 90s-revival / analogue future kinda way
the enduring Algonquin-esque fantasy that Dorothy Parker would not eat you for fucking (liquid) lunch…
Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
the enduring Algonquin-esque fantasy that Dorothy Parker would not eat you for fucking (liquid) lunch…
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nytimes logging on to do some bike commentary
November 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
nytimes logging on to do some bike commentary
Took the shameless opportunity to plug my book about the history of socialism and feminism in New York City.
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Happy new New York
We’ll still never be royals
In Paris, we woke up to election news that had been trending upwards at bedtime, or at least not trending down—but we know not to trust that. Brexit trauma dies hard. But ...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Took the shameless opportunity to plug my book about the history of socialism and feminism in New York City.
joanna-scutts.ghost.io/happy-new-ne...
joanna-scutts.ghost.io/happy-new-ne...
Hang it in the Louvre!
"It’s not 1859 anymore, guys. This is not your blue period. You are not in your watercolor era. You are just a cheap asshole who is quite adept at depicting this bawdy revue."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
I’m the Owner of This All Day Café in Nineteenth-Century Paris: Can We Stop It with the Fucking Easels?
I opened this café with the best of intentions: to provide a salon par excellence with a focus on good food and live entertainment, a third place t...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Hang it in the Louvre!
Shout out to all the book publicists trying to get all their art historian authors interviewed for Heist Content.
October 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Shout out to all the book publicists trying to get all their art historian authors interviewed for Heist Content.
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One of the telling differences between artists and non-artists is the latter always seem to think the problem for the former is not having ideas. The problem is usually... the exact opposite.
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of the telling differences between artists and non-artists is the latter always seem to think the problem for the former is not having ideas. The problem is usually... the exact opposite.
OK so who is making the “But, despite his busyness, he came to the book party.” t-shirt & when can I buy it?
September 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
OK so who is making the “But, despite his busyness, he came to the book party.” t-shirt & when can I buy it?
Never been prouder to belong to The Other Place
NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.
ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
September 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Never been prouder to belong to The Other Place
I may have messed this up, but I have deleted (the account I forgot I had)
For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button.
See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!
See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!
Click on the link to the ToC text, go to your Account - top right (as In sure you know), scroll down and delete away
September 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I may have messed this up, but I have deleted (the account I forgot I had)
I need to find this cafe.
Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”
September 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I need to find this cafe.
I'm playing around with a new newsletter project, Life + Work, all about the art that makes us, and how we make art. Wrote this one about Jenny Saville, the Holy Bible, and 90s London. joanna-scutts.ghost.io/life-and-wor...
Life and Work #1: Jenny Saville's dream of the '90s
Hello! You're reading this because you subscribed to my previous newsletter, The Pleasure Of. This is the new, hopefully improved, version, Life + Work, all about the art that makes us, and how we mak...
joanna-scutts.ghost.io
September 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I'm playing around with a new newsletter project, Life + Work, all about the art that makes us, and how we make art. Wrote this one about Jenny Saville, the Holy Bible, and 90s London. joanna-scutts.ghost.io/life-and-wor...
Reposted by Joanna Scutts
quite seriously, authors whose work was stolen (per the Atlantic database) can register here www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
Anthropic Authors’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser
www.lieffcabraser.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
quite seriously, authors whose work was stolen (per the Atlantic database) can register here www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
Such a good thread, a useful reminder that American fascism has a long history & deep roots.
This a thread about one feature of the Trump Admin's EO regarding the Smithsonian that I haven't seen much explicit discussion of. The stated purpose for reviewing Smithsonian exhibits and collections is to ensure they align with something called "Americanism." That term has a notable genealogy.
August 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Such a good thread, a useful reminder that American fascism has a long history & deep roots.
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Those of us in STEM must vocally affirm that the humanities are our allies, and no department is expendable. Arguing we can survive by cutting whole disciplines isn’t just inhumane, it’s nonsensical. The humanities tell us why we’re here in the first place, and what to do about it! This isn’t hard!
Oh good. We've reached the "I don't have to be faster than the bear, I only have to be less woke than you" stage of faculty solidarity. archive.is/wGNDr
August 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Those of us in STEM must vocally affirm that the humanities are our allies, and no department is expendable. Arguing we can survive by cutting whole disciplines isn’t just inhumane, it’s nonsensical. The humanities tell us why we’re here in the first place, and what to do about it! This isn’t hard!
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The devaluation of skill, experience, and expertise is a crisis across cultural journalism right now--it's being felt profoundly in theater. It's great that anyone can post a review, but that does not, even in the smallest way, replace what's being thrown away.
August 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The devaluation of skill, experience, and expertise is a crisis across cultural journalism right now--it's being felt profoundly in theater. It's great that anyone can post a review, but that does not, even in the smallest way, replace what's being thrown away.
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my white whale is going to be convincing the paper of record to stop allowing its opinion writers to quote this zombie statistic without caveat
August 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
my white whale is going to be convincing the paper of record to stop allowing its opinion writers to quote this zombie statistic without caveat
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let’s have a crisis of femininity, as a treat
August 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
let’s have a crisis of femininity, as a treat
Socialist mayor who dgaf about the loud whining minority of car owners will do that.
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Socialist mayor who dgaf about the loud whining minority of car owners will do that.
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Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
This is a bit of a atretch/hope: there were 5 protests, with the largest two being up to 300 people, a total of around a thousand or so people.
July 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
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Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."
For women, the increase of AI use in the workplace may affect their careers: Harvard study
Women are using AI significantly less then men and it’s going to have a major impact on their careers, according to extensive research on the topic.
www.ctvnews.ca
July 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."
Marianne Hirsch is a titan, whose teaching & mentorship opened my mind and whose kindness is legendary. Columbia has much to be ashamed of, but losing her would be irreparable.
One of the most prominent scholars of historical memory in the field of Jewish Studies, who teaches at Columbia, fears she will no longer be able to teach Hannah Arendt with the new federal government control over the university: apnews.com/article/colu...
A Columbia genocide scholar says she may leave over university's new definition of antisemitism
Academics around the country are raising alarm about growing efforts to define antisemitism on terms pushed by the Trump administration.
apnews.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Marianne Hirsch is a titan, whose teaching & mentorship opened my mind and whose kindness is legendary. Columbia has much to be ashamed of, but losing her would be irreparable.