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John Hay
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Associate Professor of English at UNLV
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UNLV’s English Department is looking to hire a tenure-track creative writing professor of literary nonfiction

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Assistant Professor, English [R0149472]
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November 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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"Baker’s book astutely captures the cultural abandonment of the worker for the celestial sheen of the CEO."

A review of Erik Baker's "Make Your Own Job": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/history-5/
History
Erik Baker, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America (Harvard University Press), 352 pp. Hardback, $35.00. Erik Baker’s Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Wor…
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July 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Check out the current issue (Issue #10) of the Las Vegas Review of Books: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/current-issue/
Current Issue
Issue #10 April 2025 Fiction: Jon Hickey, Big Chief (Simon & Schuster) Poetry: Rachel Richardson, Smother (Norton) Fiction: Frederic S. Durbin, The Country Under Heaven (Melville House) History…
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July 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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"Over a half-century of accelerating crises . . . tenured humanities faculty have expressed surprisingly little organized interest in the material well-being of their fields . . . even as its relative poverty came to hurt the careers of their own students." www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🗃️
Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works - Volume 1
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December 28, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it
December 16, 2024 at 9:39 PM
I wrote about George R. Stewart’s novel “Fire” for Alta: www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
Past Is Prologue
George R. Stewart’s 1948 novel Fire, recently reissued, has a contemporary resonance.
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December 16, 2024 at 6:40 PM
I wrote a bit about Forrest Gander’s new book for Review 31: review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...
Review 31's Books of the Year 2024
Review 31 is an online literary review.
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December 11, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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Did anyone else who published with Cambridge get a request to sign over their work for “AI Subsidiary Aggregation”? They claim we’ll be paid a 20% royalty, but I’m highly suspicious. Are other university presses doing this?
December 3, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Very pleased to see my essay on Longfellow in the newest issue of Raritan: www.proquest.com/docview/2919...
Longfellow's Echoes - ProQuest
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February 17, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Happy publication to my brother’s new book: “Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought,” out from the University of Texas Press
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477327395/
Saeculum
How the notion of unique eras influenced the Roman view of time and the narration of history from various perspectives. The Victorian Era. The Age of Enlight...
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August 11, 2023 at 5:44 PM
My review of “Utopia in the Early U.S.” is in the new issue of “Early American Literature”: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/article/903797
Project MUSE - <i>Utopia in the Early U.S.: John Lithgow's Equality and Other Writings: An Anthology...
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August 10, 2023 at 2:13 AM
My review of Andrew Lipstein’s new novel, “The Vegan,” is up at Review 31: http://review31.co.uk/article/view/883/dog-eat-dog
Dog Eat Dog
John Hay: The Vegan - Andrew Lipstein reviewed by John Hay | Review 31: an online literary review.
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August 6, 2023 at 1:25 AM