Pam Thurschwell
@pamthur.bsky.social
I'm going back to New York City; I do believe I've had enough. Also recently wrote a book, Teenage Time (Bloomsbury 2025).
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I don't think we know we are in this song | Los Angeles Review of Books
An appreciation of David Bowie's alien glamorous life
lareviewofbooks.org
10 years. My brain hurts a lot. I think on some level I really do believe that he was the cosmic glue holding the world together. lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-do...
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ANCIENT HISTORY
Diana Di Prima
The women are lying down
in front of the bulldozers
sent to destroy
the last of the olive groves.
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #90, 1970
Diana Di Prima
The women are lying down
in front of the bulldozers
sent to destroy
the last of the olive groves.
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #90, 1970
January 12, 2026 at 10:54 AM
ANCIENT HISTORY
Diana Di Prima
The women are lying down
in front of the bulldozers
sent to destroy
the last of the olive groves.
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #90, 1970
Diana Di Prima
The women are lying down
in front of the bulldozers
sent to destroy
the last of the olive groves.
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #90, 1970
This is my favourite prompt of all time.
January 11, 2026 at 9:40 AM
This is my favourite prompt of all time.
10 years. My brain hurts a lot. I think on some level I really do believe that he was the cosmic glue holding the world together. lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-do...
I don't think we know we are in this song | Los Angeles Review of Books
An appreciation of David Bowie's alien glamorous life
lareviewofbooks.org
January 10, 2026 at 9:20 AM
10 years. My brain hurts a lot. I think on some level I really do believe that he was the cosmic glue holding the world together. lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-do...
WTAF are we now? We miss you, David. Happy birthday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWts...
David Bowie - Where Are We Now? (Official Video) [HD]
YouTube video by David Bowie
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:30 PM
WTAF are we now? We miss you, David. Happy birthday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWts...
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Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
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Even if having “pronouns in her bio” were a bad thing, the shooter wasn’t looking at her bio, he was looking at her FUCKING FACE. DID SHE HAVE PRONOUNS ON HER FUCKING FACE, YOU NAZI FUCK?
Jesse Watters highlights that Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE, had "pronouns in her bio" and "leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage"
January 8, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Even if having “pronouns in her bio” were a bad thing, the shooter wasn’t looking at her bio, he was looking at her FUCKING FACE. DID SHE HAVE PRONOUNS ON HER FUCKING FACE, YOU NAZI FUCK?
This is really good and points in so many different directions.
January 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
This is really good and points in so many different directions.
We watched Bowie: The Final Act and honestly all I want is for him to come back on January 10th and tell us all that the last ten years was just some terrifying performance art piece he dreamed up.
January 5, 2026 at 11:25 PM
We watched Bowie: The Final Act and honestly all I want is for him to come back on January 10th and tell us all that the last ten years was just some terrifying performance art piece he dreamed up.
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What if 2026 turns out to be two 2025s in a trench coat
December 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
What if 2026 turns out to be two 2025s in a trench coat
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AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
January 3, 2026 at 7:23 PM
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
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i think that people really underestimate reality that
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
January 3, 2026 at 11:15 AM
i think that people really underestimate reality that
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
Nobody wants this.
December 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Nobody wants this.
Instead of feeling ragey and blasted by everything, just for a moment, I'm giving thanks for how Spinal Tap has shaped my vocabulary and world view.
December 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Instead of feeling ragey and blasted by everything, just for a moment, I'm giving thanks for how Spinal Tap has shaped my vocabulary and world view.
Does this site work for recipes? If so can you send me your perfect vegetarian stuffing or gravy?
December 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Does this site work for recipes? If so can you send me your perfect vegetarian stuffing or gravy?
Terrific essay on close reading away from elite spaces by @johannawinant.bsky.social
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Terrific essay on close reading away from elite spaces by @johannawinant.bsky.social
From the archives: 1986 junior semester abroad in London datebook. Saw My Bloody Valentine, The Shop Assistants and Pop Will Eat Itself in Camden, Billy Bragg in Glasgow and in Kilburn in one week. Plus a Highgate cemetery tour and improv Hamlet. You go, younger me!
December 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
From the archives: 1986 junior semester abroad in London datebook. Saw My Bloody Valentine, The Shop Assistants and Pop Will Eat Itself in Camden, Billy Bragg in Glasgow and in Kilburn in one week. Plus a Highgate cemetery tour and improv Hamlet. You go, younger me!
Cambridge folk, I am giving a talk on Tuesday 18th Nov, 5 pm, at the English Faculty 9 West Road called "Destructive Characters: Graham Greene to the KLF". There will be Walter Benjamin plus film clips! Come along if you are so inclined; I understand there will be wine.
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Cambridge folk, I am giving a talk on Tuesday 18th Nov, 5 pm, at the English Faculty 9 West Road called "Destructive Characters: Graham Greene to the KLF". There will be Walter Benjamin plus film clips! Come along if you are so inclined; I understand there will be wine.
What are they going to do, rename the West Wing "The Wing"? On the plus side, we all have a front row seat for primitive accumulation and destruction in action. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
What are they going to do, rename the West Wing "The Wing"? On the plus side, we all have a front row seat for primitive accumulation and destruction in action. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
I enjoyed One Battle After Another but given the choice I would definitely hire the characters in Andor to do my revolution.
September 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I enjoyed One Battle After Another but given the choice I would definitely hire the characters in Andor to do my revolution.
I'm praying for a social media that is nothing but pictures of the young Robert Redford from now on. Is that too much to ask?
September 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I'm praying for a social media that is nothing but pictures of the young Robert Redford from now on. Is that too much to ask?
Yay! Bloomsbury put a sample up online. Here it is!
New for your library: ‘Teenage Time’ by @pamthur.bsky.social
Discover how the teenager, as they has been perceived since the 1940s, have shaped the temporal imaginary of the 20th and 21st century literature.
📖 Read a sample: bit.ly/4m33waB
📘 More info: bit.ly/45nJBfn
Discover how the teenager, as they has been perceived since the 1940s, have shaped the temporal imaginary of the 20th and 21st century literature.
📖 Read a sample: bit.ly/4m33waB
📘 More info: bit.ly/45nJBfn
August 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Yay! Bloomsbury put a sample up online. Here it is!
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married, and together they will save the Arts and Humanities and rid the world of AI!”
August 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married, and together they will save the Arts and Humanities and rid the world of AI!”
Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025 - Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.
www.bloomsbury.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
My book Teenage Time comes out August 21st from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teenage-t... Here it is!
July 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
My book Teenage Time comes out August 21st from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teenage-t... Here it is!
People of Sussex and beyond, get yourself to Sussex English’s own Hope Wolf’s fantastic Sussex Modernism exhibit at the Towner in Eastbourne. So so good!
May 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
People of Sussex and beyond, get yourself to Sussex English’s own Hope Wolf’s fantastic Sussex Modernism exhibit at the Towner in Eastbourne. So so good!