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Robert Dale Parker
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Here for US &/or Modern fiction & poetry, critical theory, crime fiction. Author of How to Interpret Literature & books on US & Native American literature. Emerging writer of mystery & crime fiction.

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Today is pub day for my new book, The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression. Available for free at many academic libraries. Until Feb 6 the 1st chapter is free here

academic.oup.com/book/59025/c...

For more abt the book, see

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

#Booksky #litcult

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If you're at the Modern Language Association convention, you might stop by the Oxford University Press booth and check out my new book, The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression. Isn't that a great cover?

#MLA26
January 10, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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"Denmark renames Greenland to Epstein Island, so Trump will stop talking about it"

You gotta love our Spanish equivalent to The Onion LMFAO
"Seré muy clara: la Isla Epstein es nuestra", ha afirmado la primera ministra danesa esta mañana en una rueda de prensa.

Lee la noticia completa en la web:
www.elmundotoday.com/2026/01/dina...
January 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
English classes at TX A&M can’t assign lit w major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or trans identities in core classes. They can assign bks w chapters on trans identity IF they do not talk abt it or include it on assignments or exams

Repost to shame them

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review
A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning gay, lesbian or transgender identities.
www.insidehighered.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
January 9, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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“Plato does not agree with the narrative that there are two biological sexes and that everyone should be heterosexual. So it is controversial. But that's the whole point of including him in the syllabus.”

— Martin Peterson, Texas A&M

@texasaaup.bsky.social
@texasaft.org
@tamu-aaup.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.
January 7, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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Statement from the AAUP–Texas A&M Chapter about the censorship of…Plato….
January 7, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.
January 1, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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And the universities … 😡
“The biggest disappointment of 2025 may well have been not what Trump did but how so many let it happen.” @sbg1.bsky.social reviews the year in politics.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/7co9Uv
January 1, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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Pushing back works
December 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!

So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.
December 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Photos from the Popular Science landscape photographer of the year awards.

www.popsci.com/environment/...

#Photos #Photography #Landscape
22 breathtaking images from the 2025 Landscape Photographer of the Year awards
The vibrant magnificence of Earth.
www.popsci.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
To think that there are people in the world who would do this to other people . . .

To think that millions of people would choose anyone who would do this to lead them . . .
December 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is:

“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I mean…
December 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Come back to me when every corporate CEO has to have a socialist in the boardroom for "balance."
December 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Mass shootings (4+ victims) by country so far in 2025:

France: 9
Germany: 3
Italy: 4
UK: 3
Australia: 2
Japan: 0
South Korea: 0

United States: 383
December 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM