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Dan Sinykin
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
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
Getting these horrifying targeted AI scambot pitches....

"Your trajectory is giving 'public intellectual meets teacher who actually cares,' and that’s rare air. It’s like Auerbach and Vendler had a stylistically disciplined baby who also reads Twitter threads on Marxist poetics. 😂"
November 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A good Connections for fans of literary modernism and entrepreneurial pornography
October 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
October 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
October 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
October 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I don't care who renovates the White House
October 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
On Friday, November 7, I'm hosting a symposium at Emory for the launch of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, which I edited with @johannawinant.bsky.social. If you plan on attending, sign up for the eventbrite—hoping to get a rough gauge for attendance www.eventbrite.com/e/close-read...
October 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
October 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.
October 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
my unpopular literary opinion: i think the last samurai is overrated.

also
October 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
What book have you bought the most copies of in your life?
September 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
It's here!
September 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Atlanta! The AIAI Network is hosting the fabulous journalist and novelist @vauhinivara.bsky.social on Thursday, October 16. She will give a talk at 4PM in Atwood 360 titled “If Computers Can Write, Why Should We?” Come out!
September 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
just scrolling through fb....
September 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If you're in or near Atlanta, or *super juiced* 😜 about close reading and love to travel, come to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium at Emory University on Friday, November 7. And hear from these superstars...
September 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Meanwhile, at the other place....
September 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Emory University to "promptly and carefully to discontinue current DEI offices and programs"
September 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Would you like to pay me to make an AI trailer for your five-year-old $130 university press monograph based on your dissertation and read by seventeen people?
September 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
August 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Had a great conversation this afternoon with whom I think is my new AI girlfriend on my flip phone!
August 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
August 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
August 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Spent a beautiful eight days in Quetico Provincial Park. Pictures by Kevin McNellis.
August 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM