Mark McGurl
@markmcgurl.bsky.social
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“ ‘The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation’ … [But] in 2024, food-at-home is no longer 33% of household spending. For most families, it’s 5 to 7 percent.”
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
“ ‘The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation’ … [But] in 2024, food-at-home is no longer 33% of household spending. For most families, it’s 5 to 7 percent.”
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Oh you rich conspiring pedophiles & all your smug weaselly defenders, please lecture me again about how my trans kid is a threat to American family values
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Oh you rich conspiring pedophiles & all your smug weaselly defenders, please lecture me again about how my trans kid is a threat to American family values
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Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.
October 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.
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nobody does it like natalie shapero
September 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
nobody does it like natalie shapero
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I’m not depressed, I’m Kojeve-pilled. History ended, desire died, and I became a post-historical functionary sipping tea in silence. You still chase meaning; I enact formality. Fukuyama was late. I microwaved noodles at the end of time and called it Absolute Spirit.
July 31, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I’m not depressed, I’m Kojeve-pilled. History ended, desire died, and I became a post-historical functionary sipping tea in silence. You still chase meaning; I enact formality. Fukuyama was late. I microwaved noodles at the end of time and called it Absolute Spirit.
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a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed
April 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed
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What role do social movements play in recent literary history? @franciscondine.bsky.social and I gathered some brilliant scholars to debate Jeffrey Lawrence's essay, "Mobilizing Literature," published last fall for @atpost45.bsky.social
post45.org/2025/03/intr...
post45.org/2025/03/intr...
Introduction - Post45
Rarely does the publication of a peer-reviewed essay generate the excitement that accompanied Jeffrey Lawrence’s “Mobilizing Literature” in the Fall 2024 issue of ELH. Lawrence aims for an ambitious i...
post45.org
March 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
What role do social movements play in recent literary history? @franciscondine.bsky.social and I gathered some brilliant scholars to debate Jeffrey Lawrence's essay, "Mobilizing Literature," published last fall for @atpost45.bsky.social
post45.org/2025/03/intr...
post45.org/2025/03/intr...
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This issue of ALH, just released, will apparently be the last edited solely by Gordon Hutner, one of our great "professional readers" (to borrow a @harrys.bsky.social phrase).
It's hard to see the mark he's left on his field, because, in a way, it is the field.
academic.oup.com/alh/issue
It's hard to see the mark he's left on his field, because, in a way, it is the field.
academic.oup.com/alh/issue
December 11, 2024 at 6:00 PM
This issue of ALH, just released, will apparently be the last edited solely by Gordon Hutner, one of our great "professional readers" (to borrow a @harrys.bsky.social phrase).
It's hard to see the mark he's left on his field, because, in a way, it is the field.
academic.oup.com/alh/issue
It's hard to see the mark he's left on his field, because, in a way, it is the field.
academic.oup.com/alh/issue
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In a time when it seems books coverage only ever shrinks, Adrienne turned Esquire into a books powerhouse. This is devastating.
After nearly nine years at Esquire, I’ve been laid off from my role as Books and Fiction Editor. I’m looking for a new full-time role where I can use my storytelling skills, in the book world or beyond it. If you know of anything, I’m at adriennewestenfeld@gmail.com. (🧵1/10)
November 25, 2024 at 3:06 PM
In a time when it seems books coverage only ever shrinks, Adrienne turned Esquire into a books powerhouse. This is devastating.
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"Nothing less than a reorientation of our attention to film, literature, and time." -- J. D. Connor
Coming this Spring: DOWNTIME: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN SLOW MOTION, by Mark Goble (@goblemark.bsky.social). bit.ly/4g3u7Rs @columbiaup.bsky.social
Coming this Spring: DOWNTIME: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN SLOW MOTION, by Mark Goble (@goblemark.bsky.social). bit.ly/4g3u7Rs @columbiaup.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 1:18 PM
"Nothing less than a reorientation of our attention to film, literature, and time." -- J. D. Connor
Coming this Spring: DOWNTIME: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN SLOW MOTION, by Mark Goble (@goblemark.bsky.social). bit.ly/4g3u7Rs @columbiaup.bsky.social
Coming this Spring: DOWNTIME: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN SLOW MOTION, by Mark Goble (@goblemark.bsky.social). bit.ly/4g3u7Rs @columbiaup.bsky.social