Ivan Kreilkamp
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Ivan Kreilkamp
@ivan812.bsky.social
English prof, easily distracted Victorianist
Writing: https://ivankreilkamp.com/
Awfully coy you u are, Larry Summers
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Like Charli XCX, I also appreciate Wuthering Heights’s sentences, punctuation, & grammar
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
B/c “building LLMs to study the vocal patterns of male speakers” definitely screams, “I am very cool & down & can ‘hang with the boys’”
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Marlen Haushofer’s THE WALL may be the great cat novel 🐈 🐱

@ndbooks.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
A solemn Wombat Day (Nov. 6) for those who honor it
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"Or consider the claim of AI rights advocacy group UFAIR (United Foundation for AI Rights) that denying AI personhood amounts to 'digital apartheid' comparable to the violence of slavery, Indigenous dispossession, and the subjugation of women"... omg... ?!
November 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I’m enjoying this podcast
October 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
amusingly this is what you get if you search for Hearing Trumpet on Amazon
October 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Parenting triumph: I gave my daughter my copy of “the Hearing Trumpet” on her Fall break - she declared it one of the best novels she’s ever read and is taking it back to school to loan to friends
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I enjoyed this truck at the post office window
October 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Henry James can be so savage 🔥

"Isabel would as soon have thought of despising her as of passing a moral judgement on a grasshopper. She was like a bright rare shell, in which something would rattle when you shook it. This rattle was apparently the Countess's spiritual principle"
October 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
We can only pray that Santos might still be willing to pied-à-terre 🙏

@just-jack-1.bsky.social
@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I always thought of D'Angelo's "The Charade" as a Ferguson anthem-- but it turns out it's also very much an Occupy Wall Street song
October 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Just heard “Sunday Morning” in a doctor’s office on a Pandora (or something) “Mellow Morning” mix. Would Lou be amused or appalled @willhermes.bsky.social ?

I guess he’d probably just appreciate the revenue
October 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Happened on this 1919 edition of Henri Bergson’s Matter and Memory with amazing annotations thruout. There’s a coding system distinguishing between comments made: (1) At Home, Sept 22, 1925; (2) at Berea, KY, Feb 11, 1928; (3) At Home, Sept 29, 1930; & (4) Cottage, July 22, 1933 😮
October 7, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Judge William G. Young 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

“ Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, we the people of the United States have our magnificent Constitution”
September 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Excellent exercise tips from James Boswell (via Dwight Garner)
September 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Loved the ‘spooky’ font on the credits of Jacques Tourneur’s “Curse of the Demon”
September 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
These AAUP “Tips for Engaging with Social Media” don’t seem to have a realistic sense of how & why people use social media. I mean I’m sorry but I’m not going to post “the faculty united will never be divided” over & over
September 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Wow there's a 1992 Filipino adaptation of *Washington
Square* (well, of Wyler's 1949 *The Heiress*-- it's pretty faithful to Wyler)!

Ikaw Pa Lang Ang Minahal (You're the Only One I Have Loved)
September 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Ok why on earth does usage of “gormless” explode circa 2000??? This puzzles me
September 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Great line: “‘Media organizations’ is is an accurate term for how the big leagues work, in a way that calling them ‘magazines’ and ‘newspapers’ and so on probably isn’t in many cases. The magazines are like… a little hand puppet on the tentacle of some Cthulhu-like being”
September 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The NYT is ON IT: “Social media, hailed as an innovation that would knit us together, is driving us apart once more”

Maureen Dowd, 2013 called and wants its column back
September 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I enjoyed learning this new-to-me piece of British slang (“gammon” as in ham for an angry red-faced Brexiteer)
September 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Caroline Kennedy on her brother, our secretary of Health & Human Services 😳
September 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM