Rachel Feder
@rachelfeder.bsky.social
English Prof @ University of Denver
Weird books, all genres
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Weird books, all genres
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Hey friends! I’m psyched that so many folks want to read Mary Shelley’s prescient climate/pandemic apocalypse novel, THE LAST MAN, in community, in this, its bicentennial year.
#LastMan200
#LastMan200
Good morning #LastMan200! Reminder that we start reading today and will discuss Shelley’s Introduction on here on Friday. In the meantime, feel free to reply to this post with quotes, questions, etc you want to make sure we discuss. Happy reading! ❤️🔥
There are 30 chapters in the novel, so let’s commit to reading one chapter per week, with asynchronous discussion on here on Fridays. For 1/9, please read Shelley’s fascinating Introduction. It’s easily readable online, so this will give everyone a chance to grab a copy of the book.
#LastMan200
#LastMan200
January 5, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Good morning #LastMan200! Reminder that we start reading today and will discuss Shelley’s Introduction on here on Friday. In the meantime, feel free to reply to this post with quotes, questions, etc you want to make sure we discuss. Happy reading! ❤️🔥
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when reading Vanity Fair last year, especially the sections set in the pleasure grounds of Europe, after the Napoleonic wars, I remembered that I need to read The Last Man as an antidote and a key book of the 1820s . . . glad this is happening. #LastMan200
Hey friends! I’m psyched that so many folks want to read Mary Shelley’s prescient climate/pandemic apocalypse novel, THE LAST MAN, in community, in this, its bicentennial year.
#LastMan200
#LastMan200
January 5, 2026 at 9:25 AM
when reading Vanity Fair last year, especially the sections set in the pleasure grounds of Europe, after the Napoleonic wars, I remembered that I need to read The Last Man as an antidote and a key book of the 1820s . . . glad this is happening. #LastMan200
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Friends, IT BEGINS (...next week).
We are reading Mary Shelley's ultra relevant The Last Man. One chapter a week, Details below. Basically Friday check-ins using #LastMan200
We are reading Mary Shelley's ultra relevant The Last Man. One chapter a week, Details below. Basically Friday check-ins using #LastMan200
Hey friends! I’m psyched that so many folks want to read Mary Shelley’s prescient climate/pandemic apocalypse novel, THE LAST MAN, in community, in this, its bicentennial year.
#LastMan200
#LastMan200
January 3, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Friends, IT BEGINS (...next week).
We are reading Mary Shelley's ultra relevant The Last Man. One chapter a week, Details below. Basically Friday check-ins using #LastMan200
We are reading Mary Shelley's ultra relevant The Last Man. One chapter a week, Details below. Basically Friday check-ins using #LastMan200
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One thing I would like in 2026 is to have more copy editing work coming in! I’m a developmental editor at heart but people don’t freelance that out as much and I’m good at CE as well. If you’re involved in freelance CE hiring for any presses besides S&S (who I already do work for) pls get in touch!
January 2, 2026 at 9:44 PM
One thing I would like in 2026 is to have more copy editing work coming in! I’m a developmental editor at heart but people don’t freelance that out as much and I’m good at CE as well. If you’re involved in freelance CE hiring for any presses besides S&S (who I already do work for) pls get in touch!
Info pinned at the top of my page-we start next week! ❤️🔥
Anybody up for a bicentennial read-along of Mary Shelley’s THE LAST MAN?
Anybody doing any interesting bluesky read-alongs of big books?
January 2, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Info pinned at the top of my page-we start next week! ❤️🔥
Reposted by Rachel Feder
There are 30 chapters in the novel, so let’s commit to reading one chapter per week, with asynchronous discussion on here on Fridays. For 1/9, please read Shelley’s fascinating Introduction. It’s easily readable online, so this will give everyone a chance to grab a copy of the book.
#LastMan200
#LastMan200
January 2, 2026 at 6:13 PM
There are 30 chapters in the novel, so let’s commit to reading one chapter per week, with asynchronous discussion on here on Fridays. For 1/9, please read Shelley’s fascinating Introduction. It’s easily readable online, so this will give everyone a chance to grab a copy of the book.
#LastMan200
#LastMan200
Hey friends! I’m psyched that so many folks want to read Mary Shelley’s prescient climate/pandemic apocalypse novel, THE LAST MAN, in community, in this, its bicentennial year.
#LastMan200
#LastMan200
January 2, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Hey friends! I’m psyched that so many folks want to read Mary Shelley’s prescient climate/pandemic apocalypse novel, THE LAST MAN, in community, in this, its bicentennial year.
#LastMan200
#LastMan200
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Bluesky readers! There seems to be momentum to read Mary Shelley's The Last Man, published in 1826, so you are now compelled, in the sage words of Regina George, to get in loser.
Read-along, so we all read at the same pace and communicate via the non time-committing/no-pressure hashtag #LastMan200
Read-along, so we all read at the same pace and communicate via the non time-committing/no-pressure hashtag #LastMan200
OK I will figure out how to organize! For now claiming the hashtag #LastMan200 ❤️🔥
January 2, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Bluesky readers! There seems to be momentum to read Mary Shelley's The Last Man, published in 1826, so you are now compelled, in the sage words of Regina George, to get in loser.
Read-along, so we all read at the same pace and communicate via the non time-committing/no-pressure hashtag #LastMan200
Read-along, so we all read at the same pace and communicate via the non time-committing/no-pressure hashtag #LastMan200
Ok fam I recruited @professordemerita.bsky.social to Bluesky to help make this happen, we are in business!
#LastMan200 ❤️🔥
#LastMan200 ❤️🔥
Anybody up for a bicentennial read-along of Mary Shelley’s THE LAST MAN?
Anybody doing any interesting bluesky read-alongs of big books?
January 2, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Ok fam I recruited @professordemerita.bsky.social to Bluesky to help make this happen, we are in business!
#LastMan200 ❤️🔥
#LastMan200 ❤️🔥
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Anybody up for a bicentennial read-along of Mary Shelley’s THE LAST MAN?
Anybody doing any interesting bluesky read-alongs of big books?
January 2, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Anybody up for a bicentennial read-along of Mary Shelley’s THE LAST MAN?
Another syllabus question: what are your favorite (ideally short) books that use research and/or archival materials in interesting ways? Any genre, the weirder the better ❤️🔥
December 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Another syllabus question: what are your favorite (ideally short) books that use research and/or archival materials in interesting ways? Any genre, the weirder the better ❤️🔥
Ok friends, help me out with a syllabus question.
So I’m reimagining “bibliography & research methods,” a mixed grad/undergrad research practicum, for our current moment, which means that alongside research praxis we’ll discuss a series of readings on AI, epistemicide, &c.
So I’m reimagining “bibliography & research methods,” a mixed grad/undergrad research practicum, for our current moment, which means that alongside research praxis we’ll discuss a series of readings on AI, epistemicide, &c.
December 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Ok friends, help me out with a syllabus question.
So I’m reimagining “bibliography & research methods,” a mixed grad/undergrad research practicum, for our current moment, which means that alongside research praxis we’ll discuss a series of readings on AI, epistemicide, &c.
So I’m reimagining “bibliography & research methods,” a mixed grad/undergrad research practicum, for our current moment, which means that alongside research praxis we’ll discuss a series of readings on AI, epistemicide, &c.
Something we don’t talk about enough is how much the modern Anne Hathaway’s husband looks like a reincarnation of Shakespeare
December 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Something we don’t talk about enough is how much the modern Anne Hathaway’s husband looks like a reincarnation of Shakespeare
when you see ooo, you think
a. out of office
b. object-oriented ontology
c. other
a. out of office
b. object-oriented ontology
c. other
December 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
when you see ooo, you think
a. out of office
b. object-oriented ontology
c. other
a. out of office
b. object-oriented ontology
c. other
including the word fuccboi in every book proposal is the oulipian constraint of my life
December 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
including the word fuccboi in every book proposal is the oulipian constraint of my life
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I picked up THE DARCY MYTH, by @rachelfeder.bsky.social, randomly off my local library's Austen birthday display on Friday, and let me tell you, I had devoured it by Sunday night.
As someone who has loved, and written about loving, monster characters, wow.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730651...
As someone who has loved, and written about loving, monster characters, wow.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730651...
The Darcy Myth by Rachel Feder: 9781683693574 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“A wildly entertaining read.”—The Washington Post Covering cultural touchstones ranging from Normal People to Taylor Swift and from Lord Byron to The Bachelor, The Darcy Myth is a book...
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December 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I picked up THE DARCY MYTH, by @rachelfeder.bsky.social, randomly off my local library's Austen birthday display on Friday, and let me tell you, I had devoured it by Sunday night.
As someone who has loved, and written about loving, monster characters, wow.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730651...
As someone who has loved, and written about loving, monster characters, wow.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730651...
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2025 has been an extremely slow writing year due to Family Stuff, but I'm 2026 I'm determined to finish both my historical horror novel (tentatively titled The Desecration) and my dystopian Dorian Gray retelling with amazing co-author @rachelfeder.bsky.social. I also want to write more poetry.
My 2026 writing goal is to finally finish this novel in the first half and then write weird shit for the second half. What's your writing goal?
December 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
2025 has been an extremely slow writing year due to Family Stuff, but I'm 2026 I'm determined to finish both my historical horror novel (tentatively titled The Desecration) and my dystopian Dorian Gray retelling with amazing co-author @rachelfeder.bsky.social. I also want to write more poetry.
scared of my own manuscript 😱
@lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social @mariaabrams.bsky.social @cannibalghosts.bsky.social et al plz advise
@lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social @mariaabrams.bsky.social @cannibalghosts.bsky.social et al plz advise
December 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
scared of my own manuscript 😱
@lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social @mariaabrams.bsky.social @cannibalghosts.bsky.social et al plz advise
@lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social @mariaabrams.bsky.social @cannibalghosts.bsky.social et al plz advise
Hi friends, @nupress.bsky.social books are 50% off right now with code NEWYEAR, meaning that if one wanted to preorder my Gothic novella for $10, one could ❤️🔥
nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948030...
nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948030...
The Turn - Northwestern University Press
A contemporary gothic delving into the power of unmoored lust and familial bondsWhen Baxter, a young writer and recent college graduate, accepts a live-in na...
nupress.northwestern.edu
December 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Hi friends, @nupress.bsky.social books are 50% off right now with code NEWYEAR, meaning that if one wanted to preorder my Gothic novella for $10, one could ❤️🔥
nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948030...
nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948030...
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Stephanie Insley Hershinow surveys recent Austen-related works on Jane Austen's 250th birthday: "Austen offers endless opportunity for examination and reexamination; still, it might be fair to ask what more one can say about our dear Jane." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/happy-birthday-jane/
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Stephanie Insley Hershinow surveys recent Austen-related works on Jane Austen's 250th birthday: "Austen offers endless opportunity for examination and reexamination; still, it might be fair to ask what more one can say about our dear Jane." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/happy-birthday-jane/
Excited about this! 🦄
please enjoy this tiny-font version of the TOC! (w alt-text to actually read) 🌸
December 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Excited about this! 🦄
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OutKast’s ‘y’all don’t wanna hear me, you just want to dance’ is up there with Brontë’s ‘reader, I married him’ in my opinion
December 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
OutKast’s ‘y’all don’t wanna hear me, you just want to dance’ is up there with Brontë’s ‘reader, I married him’ in my opinion