Ana Schwartz
@peonies.bsky.social
A few years ago, I wrote a history of sincerity (UNC 2023). In my day job, I teach Texan college students about the past.
The amazing thing I'm reading *right now* and hope you'll read along with me:
I spent a half year overthinking this, and though it's hard to think about anything other than the East Bay's immanent invasion by ICE (may their crops fail and their penises fall off), I'll share it again, a big piece of "what Berkeley means to me": www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/war-is-over-...
War is Over (Because UC Wants it)
A Tale of Two Murals on Telegraph Avenue, Aaron Cometbus's "The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah," and Praising the Emptiness
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The amazing thing I'm reading *right now* and hope you'll read along with me:
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the way I keep excitedly checking if this is out yet & have been since last winter (late November fyi)
October 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
the way I keep excitedly checking if this is out yet & have been since last winter (late November fyi)
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If you liked "S03 E02 | Wives and Their Authors: Elizabeth and Herman Melville, Literary Labor, and Women's Work" back in the day, you should read @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social's essay in the latest issue of @j19journal.bsky.social!
October 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
If you liked "S03 E02 | Wives and Their Authors: Elizabeth and Herman Melville, Literary Labor, and Women's Work" back in the day, you should read @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social's essay in the latest issue of @j19journal.bsky.social!
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Took my show on the road to York & Guelph last week, narrowly & unfortunately missing Guelph’s butter tart festival.
October 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Took my show on the road to York & Guelph last week, narrowly & unfortunately missing Guelph’s butter tart festival.
Every now and then I pop on here and get lucky enough to drop through a dream portal into the @ranchogordo.bsky.social kitchen
More Breakfasts of Champions: Puglia lentils with a searingly hot chipotle tomato salsa and some leftover rotisserie chicken. Is that a dab (plop) of Bellweather Farms crème fraîche? Why, it certainly is and it was certainly delicious.
#heirloombeans #beansky #savorybreakfast #lentils
#heirloombeans #beansky #savorybreakfast #lentils
September 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Every now and then I pop on here and get lucky enough to drop through a dream portal into the @ranchogordo.bsky.social kitchen
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The art is pouring in to our DMs! Huge thanks to @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social for bringing Angela Smyth’s amazing whale to our attention!
We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.
We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.
September 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The art is pouring in to our DMs! Huge thanks to @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social for bringing Angela Smyth’s amazing whale to our attention!
We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.
We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.
Popped back in here to plug @christinegrillo.bsky.social’s new and, like, astonishingly good single-millennial civil-war novel the same week @mattseybold.bsky.social’s bonus coda ep drops. Your assigned weekend reading and listening!
September 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Popped back in here to plug @christinegrillo.bsky.social’s new and, like, astonishingly good single-millennial civil-war novel the same week @mattseybold.bsky.social’s bonus coda ep drops. Your assigned weekend reading and listening!
Posting a selfie to catch your attention and to boost @thedial2024.bsky.social’s new issue, which is…really good?! The essays on the state of the uni by @jennifergreiman.bsky.social and @samcohen.bsky.social and @cnewf.bsky.social, among others, are so well written and incisive.
September 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Posting a selfie to catch your attention and to boost @thedial2024.bsky.social’s new issue, which is…really good?! The essays on the state of the uni by @jennifergreiman.bsky.social and @samcohen.bsky.social and @cnewf.bsky.social, among others, are so well written and incisive.
Bye, weird floral chupa chups of Chicago! 👋
June 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Bye, weird floral chupa chups of Chicago! 👋
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OK but who else is on their way to South Bend rn?
@ them in the comments 👇👇👇for a chance to win a free drink ticket at the McKenna center bar 🍹 🎟️
@ them in the comments 👇👇👇for a chance to win a free drink ticket at the McKenna center bar 🍹 🎟️
June 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
OK but who else is on their way to South Bend rn?
@ them in the comments 👇👇👇for a chance to win a free drink ticket at the McKenna center bar 🍹 🎟️
@ them in the comments 👇👇👇for a chance to win a free drink ticket at the McKenna center bar 🍹 🎟️
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Today I'm sharing my own contributions to the Society of Early Americanists joint fundraiser - my prints focus respectively on Indigenous history and activism, attacks on people and institutions that care about books, and the works of Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson #letterpress #earlyAmerica
May 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Today I'm sharing my own contributions to the Society of Early Americanists joint fundraiser - my prints focus respectively on Indigenous history and activism, attacks on people and institutions that care about books, and the works of Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson #letterpress #earlyAmerica
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one thought in closing. no matter what other lessons we take from the last few weeks and the next, we should all agree on this one: things can always get goofier
February 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
one thought in closing. no matter what other lessons we take from the last few weeks and the next, we should all agree on this one: things can always get goofier
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I mean, I always think the most recent episode is the best episode.
But this one goes so hard.
But this one goes so hard.
April 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I mean, I always think the most recent episode is the best episode.
But this one goes so hard.
But this one goes so hard.
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"And the brush of grass against the lowering / Roof of the evening. The eye can eat the vanishing light"
From "Late February," a new original poem by Roger Reeves for National Poetry Month.
➡️ buff.ly/LIgOgG4
From "Late February," a new original poem by Roger Reeves for National Poetry Month.
➡️ buff.ly/LIgOgG4
April 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"And the brush of grass against the lowering / Roof of the evening. The eye can eat the vanishing light"
From "Late February," a new original poem by Roger Reeves for National Poetry Month.
➡️ buff.ly/LIgOgG4
From "Late February," a new original poem by Roger Reeves for National Poetry Month.
➡️ buff.ly/LIgOgG4
Whew, to have written this book decades ago!
Wendy Brown's States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity is a landmark work from one of our leading political theorists. This new Princeton Classics edition features a new cover new preface by the author.
Out now in paperback: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Out now in paperback: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
March 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Whew, to have written this book decades ago!
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Rhyme-lovers, a call for papers! David Caplan is hosting another symposium on poetic form at SMU—the first one was *fabulous*, generating real conversation among scholars & poets. Propose a paper to join us for the second iteration?! www.smu.edu/dedman/acade...
March 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Rhyme-lovers, a call for papers! David Caplan is hosting another symposium on poetic form at SMU—the first one was *fabulous*, generating real conversation among scholars & poets. Propose a paper to join us for the second iteration?! www.smu.edu/dedman/acade...
Tailors?!
Members of the Yemen Signal chat—including NatSec Advisor Michael Waltz and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles—left their Venmo accounts exposed, linking them to politicians, doctors, tailors, lobbyists, and each other.
Experts say it a digital op-sec disaster.
w/ @timmarchman.bsky.social
Experts say it a digital op-sec disaster.
w/ @timmarchman.bsky.social
Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public
A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
www.wired.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Tailors?!
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My first book is out on Tuesday, and Axel got his paws on a copy of it in Nashville. 😍🐾
March 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
My first book is out on Tuesday, and Axel got his paws on a copy of it in Nashville. 😍🐾
Guys, @mattseybold.bsky.social’s podcast is the best thing streaming right now. The older seasons get better with age. The latest season’s eps can’t be more timely. Start literally anywhere in the back catalogue and you will be hooked.
What are the economic, technological, & aesthetic characteristics of gilding an age?
Opening a new arc with @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @gilduran.com @ecourtem.bsky.social @jordanscarroll.bsky.social @profdgd.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Opening a new arc with @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @gilduran.com @ecourtem.bsky.social @jordanscarroll.bsky.social @profdgd.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
The Gilded Network (A Tale of Today, Episode #13)
What does the metaphor of “Gilded” mean as critical theory, political economy, and media ecology?
marktwainstudies.com
March 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Guys, @mattseybold.bsky.social’s podcast is the best thing streaming right now. The older seasons get better with age. The latest season’s eps can’t be more timely. Start literally anywhere in the back catalogue and you will be hooked.
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This is an amazing episode and feels like required listening right now. The great @mattseybold.bsky.social is doing very, very important work.
I’ve been thinking this past week, due largely to convos with Jeff & Jim Livingston, about how a perk of periodization is how it compels us to imagine the ways through crises. Even better, to discuss them. Jeff & Jim both made me laugh at our predicament, & it was the only time all week I felt okay.
I'm so delighted to be part of Matthew Seybold's American Vandal podcast, talking Twain, The Gilded Age and oligarchy, The Mysterious Stranger and technology. I enter stage left about 1:15:
marktwainstudies.com/the-gilded-n...
marktwainstudies.com/the-gilded-n...
March 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This is an amazing episode and feels like required listening right now. The great @mattseybold.bsky.social is doing very, very important work.
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Out today is Fernando Pérez Montesinos's new book LANDSCAPING INDIGENOUS MEXICO, which tells the history of the landscape of the Purépecha amid centuries of political and environmental changes.
March 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Out today is Fernando Pérez Montesinos's new book LANDSCAPING INDIGENOUS MEXICO, which tells the history of the landscape of the Purépecha amid centuries of political and environmental changes.
ok but who are the compas making these things! I need answers!
Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage
March 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
ok but who are the compas making these things! I need answers!
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Next week is pub week for 12 STORIES BY AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social and I'm doing a GIVEAWAY for Blueskyers!
The first 20 people to create an original post about the book, tag me, and DM an address will get a FREE copy sent their way.
Please read & share these stories!
The first 20 people to create an original post about the book, tag me, and DM an address will get a FREE copy sent their way.
Please read & share these stories!
March 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Next week is pub week for 12 STORIES BY AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social and I'm doing a GIVEAWAY for Blueskyers!
The first 20 people to create an original post about the book, tag me, and DM an address will get a FREE copy sent their way.
Please read & share these stories!
The first 20 people to create an original post about the book, tag me, and DM an address will get a FREE copy sent their way.
Please read & share these stories!