Jonas Gardsby
banner
jonas-gardsby.bsky.social
Jonas Gardsby
@jonas-gardsby.bsky.social
Writer of and historian of literary essays.
Writing a weird book on Montaigne, experimental living, banned books, and spies.
Assistant Professor of English and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
In honor of the great magazine editor Lewis Lapham, who died a year ago yesterday, who gave us @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social and the modern @harpers.bsky.social, here is Annie Dillard’s long-lost tribute.
(Slightly edited to make it fit Bsky. Longer version on Instagram.)
#LewisLapham #AnnieDillard
July 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This is what happens when you let AI write the news:

@cnn.com reports that Pope Francis was “the first Latin American pontiff in nearly 1,300 years.”

I’d sure like to know about the eighth-century Latin American Pope.
April 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM