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Lee Konstantinou
@lkonstan.bsky.social
· Oct 28
Move Fast and Kill All Humans | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Ever since he was little, Eliezer Yudkowsky wanted to save the world. A precocious teenager, a self-described “genius,” Yudkowsky skipped high school and college to devote himself to trying to bring i...
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The latest dispatch from my Doom Bunker, about AI and existential risk. arcmag.org/move-fast-an...
After much dawdling, finally getting serious about finishing my book on creator-owned comics. Gonna try to write or revise 1–2 pp. a day till I'm finished, with a ~70k word target. Gotta get this albatross off my neck. 2 pages done today, many more to go.
January 28, 2026 at 9:43 PM
After much dawdling, finally getting serious about finishing my book on creator-owned comics. Gonna try to write or revise 1–2 pp. a day till I'm finished, with a ~70k word target. Gotta get this albatross off my neck. 2 pages done today, many more to go.
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Another turn on the Genre Turn (and a review of Jeremy Rosen’s excellent Genre Bending). www.chronicle.com/article/is-l...
Opinion | Is ‘Literary Fiction’ Just Another Genre Now?
There is no real middlebrow any more.
www.chronicle.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Another turn on the Genre Turn (and a review of Jeremy Rosen’s excellent Genre Bending). www.chronicle.com/article/is-l...
Not to be unkind but this seems eh perhaps uh unpromising?
January 28, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Not to be unkind but this seems eh perhaps uh unpromising?
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Thought-provoking essay on what sounds like a thought-provoking book (that I will read over spring break)
Another turn on the Genre Turn (and a review of Jeremy Rosen’s excellent Genre Bending). www.chronicle.com/article/is-l...
Opinion | Is ‘Literary Fiction’ Just Another Genre Now?
There is no real middlebrow any more.
www.chronicle.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Thought-provoking essay on what sounds like a thought-provoking book (that I will read over spring break)
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Go Jeremy!
Another turn on the Genre Turn (and a review of Jeremy Rosen’s excellent Genre Bending). www.chronicle.com/article/is-l...
Opinion | Is ‘Literary Fiction’ Just Another Genre Now?
There is no real middlebrow any more.
www.chronicle.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Go Jeremy!
Another turn on the Genre Turn (and a review of Jeremy Rosen’s excellent Genre Bending). www.chronicle.com/article/is-l...
Opinion | Is ‘Literary Fiction’ Just Another Genre Now?
There is no real middlebrow any more.
www.chronicle.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Another turn on the Genre Turn (and a review of Jeremy Rosen’s excellent Genre Bending). www.chronicle.com/article/is-l...
Anecdote-capture is a real problem for academic writing. You start with a vivid illustrative story or example and seven pages later it’s taken over the chapter you’re writing!
January 28, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Anecdote-capture is a real problem for academic writing. You start with a vivid illustrative story or example and seven pages later it’s taken over the chapter you’re writing!
Seems like we're going to be frozen in place all week.
January 26, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Seems like we're going to be frozen in place all week.
Friendship, Social Skills, & School Life. This one is an insta-buy.
January 25, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Friendship, Social Skills, & School Life. This one is an insta-buy.
There are no Snow Days anymore—just Asynchronous Learning Days.
January 25, 2026 at 4:40 PM
There are no Snow Days anymore—just Asynchronous Learning Days.
Super-curious to see how Greenland 3 turns out. 😭
January 15, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Super-curious to see how Greenland 3 turns out. 😭
Lukewarm Take: Eddington is super-weird. Its core problem is it doesn't really believe in politics, in the sense of believing that people have real commitments or interests. Which is why it can't sustain its focus on the mayoral election, which would've made for a much more interesting film.
January 15, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Lukewarm Take: Eddington is super-weird. Its core problem is it doesn't really believe in politics, in the sense of believing that people have real commitments or interests. Which is why it can't sustain its focus on the mayoral election, which would've made for a much more interesting film.
Mickey 17 is better slapstick than sci-fi.
January 14, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Mickey 17 is better slapstick than sci-fi.
Looking for the best analyses of the right-wing "NPC meme" for something I'm writing. All suggestions welcome.
January 13, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Looking for the best analyses of the right-wing "NPC meme" for something I'm writing. All suggestions welcome.
So vampires in Sinners are kind of, like, the joined in Pluribus, but they’re just using a way less successful strategy for taking over the world?
January 12, 2026 at 8:36 PM
So vampires in Sinners are kind of, like, the joined in Pluribus, but they’re just using a way less successful strategy for taking over the world?
Soon to be renamed the Slop Pile.
AI to rescue the slush pile www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
January 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Soon to be renamed the Slop Pile.
Next, The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021): Utterly beautiful—Bruno Delbonnel steals the show w/ the monochrome look of the film. Its commitment to mythic gravitas comes at the expense of emotionally intimacy. Is it deranged to read it as a veiled reflection on Joel’s hiatus from making movies with Ethan?
January 7, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Next, The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021): Utterly beautiful—Bruno Delbonnel steals the show w/ the monochrome look of the film. Its commitment to mythic gravitas comes at the expense of emotionally intimacy. Is it deranged to read it as a veiled reflection on Joel’s hiatus from making movies with Ethan?
What are the best novels set in college towns? Not Campus Novels but College Town Novels.
January 7, 2026 at 3:45 PM
What are the best novels set in college towns? Not Campus Novels but College Town Novels.
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New book going to press: *Character Networks in Contemporary U.S. Fiction.* It’s about social networks as context for—and formal element of—the novel. For contemporary lit, novel/narrative theory, DH, lit and sociology, network analysis crowds. Here’s what it’s about: (1/n)
January 6, 2026 at 4:30 PM
New book going to press: *Character Networks in Contemporary U.S. Fiction.* It’s about social networks as context for—and formal element of—the novel. For contemporary lit, novel/narrative theory, DH, lit and sociology, network analysis crowds. Here’s what it’s about: (1/n)
Finally going through the backlog of movies I've been meaning to see. So: "One Battle After Another" is:
- incredible
- a big, big mess
- very much harmed by the change of temporal setting (compared to Vineland), which puts the French 75 in... the mid-aughts, right after 9/11?
- incredible
- a big, big mess
- very much harmed by the change of temporal setting (compared to Vineland), which puts the French 75 in... the mid-aughts, right after 9/11?
January 6, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Finally going through the backlog of movies I've been meaning to see. So: "One Battle After Another" is:
- incredible
- a big, big mess
- very much harmed by the change of temporal setting (compared to Vineland), which puts the French 75 in... the mid-aughts, right after 9/11?
- incredible
- a big, big mess
- very much harmed by the change of temporal setting (compared to Vineland), which puts the French 75 in... the mid-aughts, right after 9/11?
Godzilla Minus One is, it turns out, terrific.
January 5, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Godzilla Minus One is, it turns out, terrific.
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Comics studies folks—the submission window for the Comics Studies Society prizes is now open! See below for prize categories and submission details here: comicsstudies.org/prizes/
January 4, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Comics studies folks—the submission window for the Comics Studies Society prizes is now open! See below for prize categories and submission details here: comicsstudies.org/prizes/
