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.
Guys, the video of Zohran officiating weddings is making me cry on Valentine's Day, plz send help
February 14, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Guys, the video of Zohran officiating weddings is making me cry on Valentine's Day, plz send help
Guys, I *immediately* took a break from my grading college-level essays to read this, and I can't really explain how yet, but it was such fucking balm to my soul to have someone give back to me such an important part of the history of my present experience.
As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵
academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
High School English and the Making of American Readers
Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars
academic.oup.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Guys, I *immediately* took a break from my grading college-level essays to read this, and I can't really explain how yet, but it was such fucking balm to my soul to have someone give back to me such an important part of the history of my present experience.
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When viewed through a certain lens, any story is a love story.
Get 30% off all books with discount code LOVE, now through February 15.
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February 13, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Here is 30% off on Here Is a Figure!!
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Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.
January 31, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.
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Very moved by this nuanced and thoughtful review of WRITING AGAINST REFORM by @natewolff.bsky.social
(free to read in English at: journals.openedition.org/transatlanti... )
"this critique (of sentimentalism) needed an extra dash of dialectics."
💙💙💙How can you not love this scholar?💙💙💙
(free to read in English at: journals.openedition.org/transatlanti... )
"this critique (of sentimentalism) needed an extra dash of dialectics."
💙💙💙How can you not love this scholar?💙💙💙
Arielle Zibrak, Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Pr...
In “Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson denounced those who dress uncharitable motives in the flattering garb of compassion: “I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways. ...
journals.openedition.org
January 28, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Very moved by this nuanced and thoughtful review of WRITING AGAINST REFORM by @natewolff.bsky.social
(free to read in English at: journals.openedition.org/transatlanti... )
"this critique (of sentimentalism) needed an extra dash of dialectics."
💙💙💙How can you not love this scholar?💙💙💙
(free to read in English at: journals.openedition.org/transatlanti... )
"this critique (of sentimentalism) needed an extra dash of dialectics."
💙💙💙How can you not love this scholar?💙💙💙
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Lol I made a very happy mistake! I thought I was using a sunburst #quilt pattern. Nope. It's a starburst pattern. So, even better per the final image of the quote! #dhmakes #dhtries #letterpress #textiles
Needed to do a little bit of positivity printing today - dropped a few in the store: hotbrownpress.etsy.com/listing/4443...
#c19 #AmericanLit #Thoreau #Walden #AmLit #19c #letterpress #printmaking
#c19 #AmericanLit #Thoreau #Walden #AmLit #19c #letterpress #printmaking
January 19, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Lol I made a very happy mistake! I thought I was using a sunburst #quilt pattern. Nope. It's a starburst pattern. So, even better per the final image of the quote! #dhmakes #dhtries #letterpress #textiles
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MLA 2026-Bound Gente: The Latina/o Forum Cashbar has shifted off location to a bar a short walk from the Convention Center, January 9th, 7:15pm-8:30pm #MLA2026
January 7, 2026 at 8:42 PM
MLA 2026-Bound Gente: The Latina/o Forum Cashbar has shifted off location to a bar a short walk from the Convention Center, January 9th, 7:15pm-8:30pm #MLA2026
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Zohran Mamdani is going to use Arturo Schomburg's copy of the Quran for his swearing in ceremony.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Zohran Mamdani is going to use Arturo Schomburg's copy of the Quran for his swearing in ceremony.
www.nypl.org/press/schomb...
www.nypl.org/press/schomb...
Happy New Year, folks!
December 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Happy New Year, folks!
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As 2025 ends, I'm thankful for Matt Seybold and his extraordinary, synthetic, research-intensive, innovative, podcast scholarship, which is a gift to us all
It was, by every measure, a banner year for The American Vandal.
Every episode is my favorite episode, but here were 2025's top 5 by downloads, starting where you would guess. The episode cited in Slate, Defector, etc. It coined a slogan.
The first of 3 appearances by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
Every episode is my favorite episode, but here were 2025's top 5 by downloads, starting where you would guess. The episode cited in Slate, Defector, etc. It coined a slogan.
The first of 3 appearances by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
Newspapers Worse Than Dead, But Print Is A Rent Strike (A Tale of Today, Episode #15)
with Tressie McMillan Cottom, Gil Duran, Samuel Freedman, Jeff Horwitz, Jeff Jarvis, Andie Tucher, and Yanis Varoufakis
theamericanvandal.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
As 2025 ends, I'm thankful for Matt Seybold and his extraordinary, synthetic, research-intensive, innovative, podcast scholarship, which is a gift to us all
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Gwendolyn Brooks (at 16)
December 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Gwendolyn Brooks (at 16)
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One of the things for which I’m so grateful is that I didn’t read Moby Dick till I was in my 30s. I don’t think I would have been able to experience the sheer surprise and awe at what it’s doing and what it’s about had I read it when I was younger.
Context: she was very pleased with the foreword I wrote for my grandfather's book about Moby-Dick
Anyway, I have more than 700 words to say about science and authoritarianism in Moby-Dick, and I will be figuring out what to do with those in 2026 :-)
Anyway, I have more than 700 words to say about science and authoritarianism in Moby-Dick, and I will be figuring out what to do with those in 2026 :-)
December 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
One of the things for which I’m so grateful is that I didn’t read Moby Dick till I was in my 30s. I don’t think I would have been able to experience the sheer surprise and awe at what it’s doing and what it’s about had I read it when I was younger.
Extremely cool to see some of the best literary scholars in early American studies show off our field like this:
I wrote this essay because I wanted as many people as possible to understand that what Paine did in Common Sense was recognize the urgency of his historical moment, and that he matched that moment with words. That is why it resonates now. What words will we find for our moment?
December 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Extremely cool to see some of the best literary scholars in early American studies show off our field like this:
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grateful that Sarah Mesle articulated this, in this precise way. Beef & fucking prunes. (from Reasons & Feelings, 2025)
December 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
grateful that Sarah Mesle articulated this, in this precise way. Beef & fucking prunes. (from Reasons & Feelings, 2025)
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Friends!!! You know how obsessed I have become with Common Sense.
Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever.
I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever.
I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The Pamphlet That Has Roused Americans to Action for 250 Years
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Friends!!! You know how obsessed I have become with Common Sense.
Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever.
I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever.
I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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The era of the mass market paperback is coming to an end, and that’s not good thing for anyone.
I jotted down some thoughts about the history of the format and why its end isn’t a great sign for the publishing industry: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mass-market-...
I jotted down some thoughts about the history of the format and why its end isn’t a great sign for the publishing industry: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mass-market-...
Stories for the masses
The Mass Market paperback format is ending with a whimper
transfer-orbit.ghost.io
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The era of the mass market paperback is coming to an end, and that’s not good thing for anyone.
I jotted down some thoughts about the history of the format and why its end isn’t a great sign for the publishing industry: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mass-market-...
I jotted down some thoughts about the history of the format and why its end isn’t a great sign for the publishing industry: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mass-market-...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The Custom Oregon Plate LOGOUT was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #LOGOUT
My irregular visit to BSKY for December has arrived; I'm here to insist everyone close out their existing tabs and read @johannawinant.bsky.social's latest in the @bostonreview.bsky.social: 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.
www.bostonreview.net
December 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
My irregular visit to BSKY for December has arrived; I'm here to insist everyone close out their existing tabs and read @johannawinant.bsky.social's latest in the @bostonreview.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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For @mid-theory.bsky.social, @johndownesangus.bsky.social wrote about @tomcomitta.bsky.social’s awesome book at @columbiaup.bsky.social! It was so fun to edit this piece!
For MTC, John Downes-Angus reviews Tom Comitta's PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE and reflects on his experiences as a high school English teacher where on the daily he makes a case for reading the strange, the extreme, the unwanted—for the chance to accept "reading’s complicated gift to us."
Unwanted Reading: A Review of Tom Comitta’s ‘People’s Choice Literature’
The Sunday before I taught Beloved last spring, I sat on my couch wondering how I was going to convince a room full of second semester seniors that, before they left high school that June, they sho…
mid-theory.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
For @mid-theory.bsky.social, @johndownesangus.bsky.social wrote about @tomcomitta.bsky.social’s awesome book at @columbiaup.bsky.social! It was so fun to edit this piece!
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Spotify is a distant third among platforms that AV listeners use, but what Wrapped tells me year after year is, I believe, true across all of them: American Vandal grows & grows because listeners share it with their friends.
Thank you.
Thank you.
December 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Spotify is a distant third among platforms that AV listeners use, but what Wrapped tells me year after year is, I believe, true across all of them: American Vandal grows & grows because listeners share it with their friends.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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mckinley strawberries, 1900
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
mckinley strawberries, 1900
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!