Simon Reader
psiwaves.bsky.social
Simon Reader
@psiwaves.bsky.social
Does anyone else get unreasonably excited when you recognize a new celebrity voiceover in The American Revolution
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Concerned that not enough of you have seen One Battle After Another
October 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
highly recommend teaching some mcluhan these days
September 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Currently reading "Notework" by @psiwaves.bsky.social . Fascinating for an inveterate note-taker like myself. Makes me wonder about the affordances and limitations of the feed-shaped social network as our default form of public notework (newsletters are a different genre).

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Notework | Stanford University Press
Notework begins with a striking insight: the writer's notebook is a genre in itself. Simon Reader pursues this argument in original readings of unpublished writing by prominent Victorians, offering an...
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August 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Those little Ferrero Rochers and Lindors at the grocery store checkout are really holding me together right now
August 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Did you publish your first book in Victorian studies in 2024? If so, submit it for consideration for the Rudikoff Prize. More information here: nvsa.org/rudikoff-pri...
Rudikoff Prize
The Sonya Rudikoff Award for the best first book in Victorian Studies was established by the Robert Gutman family in honor of Mr. Gutman’s late wife. Sonya Rudikoff was an active member of th…
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August 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
What's with kids today misusing the past perfect all the time
July 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
For all his virtues James Baldwin is a real downer
July 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I’m sorry has the white witch returned? It’s colder than it’s ever been
April 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My new word of the day is concubinus, a male concubine
March 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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jupiter and moons thru telescope from new york city I can't believe it so cool
November 5, 2024 at 3:19 AM
I reviewed Cabinet Magazine's The Virtual Sentence and @princetonupress.bsky.social's "The Pocket Instructor: Writing" for @publicbooks.bsky.social

More games and play and exercises in the humanities and beyond!
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You Could Use the Exercise
In the face of AI, the time is right to practice our writing techniques for invention and surprise.
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September 20, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Here's "Idols of the Fragment," my new article in NLH about Roland Barthes and the enduring fantasy that fragmentary writing will liberate us. Thanks to the people at the journal for taking this on. Reach out if you'd like a copy
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
July 19, 2024 at 3:35 PM
That moment in the dinner when men start talking about supply chain problems
December 26, 2023 at 2:28 AM
Poker Face is truly the Littlest Hobo for a new generation
December 12, 2023 at 9:50 PM
December 11, 2023 at 5:22 PM
proofs! "The Importance of Being Bitchy" coming soon
December 1, 2023 at 7:19 PM
"This is a comment not a question" gets a lot of flack but truly the gravest sin is "I have a question for the whole panel"
November 11, 2023 at 12:55 PM
This is so good
November 9, 2023 at 3:03 PM
Patricia Highsmith is the true master of free indirect discourse
October 27, 2023 at 12:57 PM
all I want in a conference programme is a simple pdf
October 25, 2023 at 12:25 AM