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
Does anyone else get unreasonably excited when you recognize a new celebrity voiceover in The American Revolution
Concerned that not enough of you have seen One Battle After Another
October 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Concerned that not enough of you have seen One Battle After Another
highly recommend teaching some mcluhan these days
September 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
highly recommend teaching some mcluhan these days
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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).
There's something... 1/
There's something... 1/
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 Simon Reader pursues this argument in original readings of unpublished writing by prominent Victorians, offering an...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
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).
There's something... 1/
There's something... 1/
I love this
stellarium-web.org
stellarium-web.org
Stellarium Web Online Star Map
Stellarium Web is a planetarium running in your web browser. It shows a realistic star map, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
stellarium-web.org
August 18, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I love this
stellarium-web.org
stellarium-web.org
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
Those little Ferrero Rochers and Lindors at the grocery store checkout are really holding me together right now
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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
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...
What's with kids today misusing the past perfect all the time
July 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
What's with kids today misusing the past perfect all the time
For all his virtues James Baldwin is a real downer
July 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
For all his virtues James Baldwin is a real downer
Alice Notley "At Night the States"
At Night the States
At night the states I forget them or I wish I was there in that one under the Stars. At night the states And the world not that tired of everyone Maybe. (my love.) At night the states talk. My initial...
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May 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Alice Notley "At Night the States"
I’m sorry has the white witch returned? It’s colder than it’s ever been
April 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I’m sorry has the white witch returned? It’s colder than it’s ever been
My new word of the day is concubinus, a male concubine
March 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
My new word of the day is concubinus, a male concubine
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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
jupiter and moons thru telescope from new york city I can't believe it so cool
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!
www.publicbooks.org/you-could-us...
More games and play and exercises in the humanities and beyond!
www.publicbooks.org/you-could-us...
You Could Use the Exercise
In the face of AI, the time is right to practice our writing techniques for invention and surprise.
www.publicbooks.org
September 20, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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!
www.publicbooks.org/you-could-us...
More games and play and exercises in the humanities and beyond!
www.publicbooks.org/you-could-us...
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...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
July 19, 2024 at 3:35 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...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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That moment in the dinner when men start talking about supply chain problems
December 26, 2023 at 2:28 AM
That moment in the dinner when men start talking about supply chain problems
Poker Face is truly the Littlest Hobo for a new generation
December 12, 2023 at 9:50 PM
Poker Face is truly the Littlest Hobo for a new generation
One can dream
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December 11, 2023 at 5:22 PM
One can dream
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gothamist.com/news/columbi...
proofs! "The Importance of Being Bitchy" coming soon
December 1, 2023 at 7:19 PM
proofs! "The Importance of Being Bitchy" coming soon
"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 a comment not a question" gets a lot of flack but truly the gravest sin is "I have a question for the whole panel"
This is so good
November 9, 2023 at 3:03 PM
This is so good
Patricia Highsmith is the true master of free indirect discourse
October 27, 2023 at 12:57 PM
Patricia Highsmith is the true master of free indirect discourse
all I want in a conference programme is a simple pdf
October 25, 2023 at 12:25 AM
all I want in a conference programme is a simple pdf