god bless the Kibbe dome

lots of this in the ttrpg yt scene

Brilliant, looking forward to watching it! There's SO much to discuss in Murnane.

This essay by Cary Wolfe might be useful, and provides lots of directions to pursue:

I'm a die-hard for the Ganji Kankiri carbonknifeco.com/en-ca/produc...

oh man I've been thinking about this a lot since seeing it last night - there's something there about a shift from PTA's early Altman relationship to what's happening now with the Pynchon streak in his work

time to root for the mariners and the jays for the postseason

or possibly Slaughterhouse-Five. in my late teens/early twenties I had a compulsion where I bought every copy of either that I found in thrift stores, eventually I had probably ten copies of each

a huge pet peeve, and one I had to do significant work avoiding in my own dissertation haha

sick list, would have loved to see these heavy hitters on a syllabus when I was in undergrad

I've noticed what usually seems like a 50-50 split between students who use plural possessives correctly and students who just add apostrophe-s to all possessives—can't really say why, tho, although I imagine it's just a bit of usage that's falling by the wayside in K12 language instruction

it's kind of a perfect book imo

One of the best!