Dr. Emily Friedman
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Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (#TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance)
ecfriedman.com
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
I will only mildly note that while we were a little alarmed for a few seconds (until it was very clear something was messed up with the system) Alertmaggeddon was not the recent threat that had my colleagues avoiding campus & moving classes online for a day.

(I will not be clarifying. IYKYK.)
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Indeed
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
He later was the first person to tell me I’d be a good teacher.
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The prompt ended with the acknowledgment that most students would be more concerned with their own lives and pleasures to give a damn about his story.

I have never asked him if he knew that was bait for a particular kind of bookish nerd, but it was.
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
*90 second — I AM VERY TIRED
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
THAT IS HOW TIRED I AM
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM