Dan Sinykin
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
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NY Times: 20,000 Epstein Estate Emails Reveal Gislaine Maxwell's Top Ten Goodreads Recommendations of 2016
omfg it's real archive.ph/hvTdW
November 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
NY Times: 20,000 Epstein Estate Emails Reveal Gislaine Maxwell's Top Ten Goodreads Recommendations of 2016
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thanks to @thenation.com for publishing this excerpt of my book; grateful to be edited by the wonderful @apockros.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
The Hidden Politics of the Crossword Puzzle
Take it from me: A crossword clue can be debated with the kind of fervor normally reserved for corporatist propaganda and outright racism.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
thanks to @thenation.com for publishing this excerpt of my book; grateful to be edited by the wonderful @apockros.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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In 2018 … Summers trying to fuck a student.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
In 2018 … Summers trying to fuck a student.
Yes, this is a reference to Kadue's brilliant contribution to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century:
November 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Yes, this is a reference to Kadue's brilliant contribution to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century:
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really enjoying my junior colleague Katie Kadue's little essay on Christopher Ricks: "Grist for the Mill: Christopher Ricks on Cliche"...about close-reading as noticing and close-reading as cooperation between text and author. And about my favorite part of Appleton House (the canoos!)
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
really enjoying my junior colleague Katie Kadue's little essay on Christopher Ricks: "Grist for the Mill: Christopher Ricks on Cliche"...about close-reading as noticing and close-reading as cooperation between text and author. And about my favorite part of Appleton House (the canoos!)
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OF COURSE David Coleman is a pal
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
OF COURSE David Coleman is a pal
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she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
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This by @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social is fabulous.
also read out this by @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social in the first lecture just now to explain rationale of the assignments; it’s so nice (from here: slate.com/life/2025/10...)
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This by @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social is fabulous.
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Just trying to keep up with all the cool kids
(Thanks @isanchezprado.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social !)
(Thanks @isanchezprado.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social !)
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Just trying to keep up with all the cool kids
(Thanks @isanchezprado.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social !)
(Thanks @isanchezprado.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social !)
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What would you choose?
Also this genre of essays -- those the contributors write in Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: 3k words, showing how a close reading works -- can itself be used as an assignment. Ask your early grad students who *they* would choose!
(hat tip to Andrew H. Miller!)
Also this genre of essays -- those the contributors write in Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: 3k words, showing how a close reading works -- can itself be used as an assignment. Ask your early grad students who *they* would choose!
(hat tip to Andrew H. Miller!)
If you were to do write about a close reading to show undergrads how to do *one* thing well, what would you choose?
Okay this is not a clean break from close reading promo because, as @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social can attest, I kept wondering which contributor would make me jealous by choosing Cameron. But because everyone has their own key figures, none did!?
(“Who would you have chosen” is a fun game we now play)
(“Who would you have chosen” is a fun game we now play)
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
What would you choose?
Also this genre of essays -- those the contributors write in Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: 3k words, showing how a close reading works -- can itself be used as an assignment. Ask your early grad students who *they* would choose!
(hat tip to Andrew H. Miller!)
Also this genre of essays -- those the contributors write in Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: 3k words, showing how a close reading works -- can itself be used as an assignment. Ask your early grad students who *they* would choose!
(hat tip to Andrew H. Miller!)
If you were to do write about a close reading to show undergrads how to do *one* thing well, what would you choose?
Okay this is not a clean break from close reading promo because, as @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social can attest, I kept wondering which contributor would make me jealous by choosing Cameron. But because everyone has their own key figures, none did!?
(“Who would you have chosen” is a fun game we now play)
(“Who would you have chosen” is a fun game we now play)
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
If you were to do write about a close reading to show undergrads how to do *one* thing well, what would you choose?
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Okay this is not a clean break from close reading promo because, as @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social can attest, I kept wondering which contributor would make me jealous by choosing Cameron. But because everyone has their own key figures, none did!?
(“Who would you have chosen” is a fun game we now play)
(“Who would you have chosen” is a fun game we now play)
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Okay this is not a clean break from close reading promo because, as @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social can attest, I kept wondering which contributor would make me jealous by choosing Cameron. But because everyone has their own key figures, none did!?
(“Who would you have chosen” is a fun game we now play)
(“Who would you have chosen” is a fun game we now play)
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My unified theory of Sharon Cameron, and what I learned from reading her starting in my first semester of my PhD when Lauren Berlant took a hard look at me and said "I think you'd like this book called Lyric Time."
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
My unified theory of Sharon Cameron, and what I learned from reading her starting in my first semester of my PhD when Lauren Berlant took a hard look at me and said "I think you'd like this book called Lyric Time."
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***break from close reading promo***
Sharon Cameron's thinking about poetry has meant so much to me for decades now; I reviewed her new book and seized the chance to look back at her career.
Thanks to the Wallace Stevens Journal, currently open access:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Sharon Cameron's thinking about poetry has meant so much to me for decades now; I reviewed her new book and seized the chance to look back at her career.
Thanks to the Wallace Stevens Journal, currently open access:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - The Likeness of Things Unlike: A Poetics of Incommensurability by Sharon Cameron (review)
muse.jhu.edu
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
***break from close reading promo***
Sharon Cameron's thinking about poetry has meant so much to me for decades now; I reviewed her new book and seized the chance to look back at her career.
Thanks to the Wallace Stevens Journal, currently open access:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Sharon Cameron's thinking about poetry has meant so much to me for decades now; I reviewed her new book and seized the chance to look back at her career.
Thanks to the Wallace Stevens Journal, currently open access:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Taxing my poor brain to connect some dots
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Taxing my poor brain to connect some dots
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I feel like it’s totally okay to get together with the boys and drink some frosty ones and talk about how impressive Kate Bush is
November 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I feel like it’s totally okay to get together with the boys and drink some frosty ones and talk about how impressive Kate Bush is
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Mit Beiträgen von Christine Magerski zur Rettung der Autonomie im postautonomen Zeitalter, von @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social zur allegorischen Lektüre, Alessandra Goggio zum Verleger als Produzenten und Paul Buckermann zur literaturwiss. Hassliebe zur Autorfigur: www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur Volume 50 Issue 2
Volume 50, issue 2 of the journal Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur was published in 2025.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Mit Beiträgen von Christine Magerski zur Rettung der Autonomie im postautonomen Zeitalter, von @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social zur allegorischen Lektüre, Alessandra Goggio zum Verleger als Produzenten und Paul Buckermann zur literaturwiss. Hassliebe zur Autorfigur: www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
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Kann die Lektüre von Literatur Ausgangspunkt für das Verstehen von sozialen Ungleichheiten oder moralischen Ungerechtigkeiten sein? Wir gehen im aktuellen Heft des IASL mit unserer Diskussion zur Literatursoziologie in die zweite Runde:
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Was ist Literatursoziologie? Editorial
Article Was ist Literatursoziologie? Editorial was published on November 1, 2025 in the journal Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (volume 50, issue 2).
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November 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Kann die Lektüre von Literatur Ausgangspunkt für das Verstehen von sozialen Ungleichheiten oder moralischen Ungerechtigkeiten sein? Wir gehen im aktuellen Heft des IASL mit unserer Diskussion zur Literatursoziologie in die zweite Runde:
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Proud to be part of the first wave of professors teaching with this volume. This week my students in American Modernism read the @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social intro, then a little Larsen, Butler on Larsen, & @ncecire.bsky.social on Butler on Larsen.
And. It. Went. Awesome.
And. It. Went. Awesome.
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Proud to be part of the first wave of professors teaching with this volume. This week my students in American Modernism read the @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social intro, then a little Larsen, Butler on Larsen, & @ncecire.bsky.social on Butler on Larsen.
And. It. Went. Awesome.
And. It. Went. Awesome.
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beyond honored to have been subject to Titus Blome's intense intelligent scrutiny for this profile in Die Zeit
www.zeit.de/2025/48/phil...
www.zeit.de/2025/48/phil...
Philosophie in Krisenzeiten: Alles längst zu spät? Nichts ist zu spät!
Wälder brennen, Demokratien bröckeln, überall prasseln Krisen auf uns ein. Wie kann man hier noch denken? Im von Trump bekriegten Chicago findet Anna Kornbluh Antworten.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
beyond honored to have been subject to Titus Blome's intense intelligent scrutiny for this profile in Die Zeit
www.zeit.de/2025/48/phil...
www.zeit.de/2025/48/phil...
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For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Sociology and Allegory
The question of the relationship between internal and external analysis of literature remains open across disciplinary inquiries. Although Pierre Bourdieu claims to offer a definitive answer to the qu...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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After all the critiques of the sociology of literature, I am reduced to defensively arguing that a text is, you know, not *not* an allegory of its conditions of production, right?
October 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
After all the critiques of the sociology of literature, I am reduced to defensively arguing that a text is, you know, not *not* an allegory of its conditions of production, right?
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In Chap 6 of #ComputationalHumanities, @kmcdono.bsky.social argues in "Maps as Data" that we can go beyond close reading for maps just like we can for text. How can we search over the built and natural environment, and over scales and time?
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Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
In Chap 6 of #ComputationalHumanities, @kmcdono.bsky.social argues in "Maps as Data" that we can go beyond close reading for maps just like we can for text. How can we search over the built and natural environment, and over scales and time?
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...