Aaron
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look, when the legendary City Lights asks to record a conversation about close reading, you respond “yes, I’ll hide upstairs in a room in my parents‘ house, put on a clean shirt, and talk a lot with my hands!!!”
join @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , Yael Segalovitz, @samantharhill.bsky.social, and me!
join @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , Yael Segalovitz, @samantharhill.bsky.social, and me!
City Lights has long been a beacon of bookishness for me. It was a thrill to do CITY LIGHTS LIVE!: a conversation about close reading with Yael Segalovitz and my co-editor on Close Reading for the 21C, @johannawinant.bsky.social moderated by @samantharhill.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehZ0...
CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Close Reading Today - Celebrating University Press Week 2025
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November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
look, when the legendary City Lights asks to record a conversation about close reading, you respond “yes, I’ll hide upstairs in a room in my parents‘ house, put on a clean shirt, and talk a lot with my hands!!!”
join @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , Yael Segalovitz, @samantharhill.bsky.social, and me!
join @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , Yael Segalovitz, @samantharhill.bsky.social, and me!
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Leap! leap up, and lick the sky!
October 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Leap! leap up, and lick the sky!
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I will always repost Bread and Puppet content
The entire Bread and Puppet performance was right on time but this is the skit that I keep thinking about the most.
I was slow to start recording - others have posted more complete recordings - but I did manage to catch the Spanish chorus:
I was slow to start recording - others have posted more complete recordings - but I did manage to catch the Spanish chorus:
October 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I will always repost Bread and Puppet content
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they began capering about most obstreperously
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 AM
they began capering about most obstreperously
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call this high hump the organ of firmness
October 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
call this high hump the organ of firmness
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the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their outreaching comprehensiveness of sweep
October 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their outreaching comprehensiveness of sweep
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make modern history a liar
October 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
make modern history a liar
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smothered in the very whitest and daintiest of fragrant spermaceti
October 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
smothered in the very whitest and daintiest of fragrant spermaceti
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this situation of mine was the precise situation of every mortal that breathes
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
this situation of mine was the precise situation of every mortal that breathes
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It’s been a long while! Empyrean Series nos. 46–50 are announced & available for preorder as of today.
Books by Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa are due out in November. Ludwig Tieck & Niu Sengru will be published next spring.
asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
Books by Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa are due out in November. Ludwig Tieck & Niu Sengru will be published next spring.
asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
October 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It’s been a long while! Empyrean Series nos. 46–50 are announced & available for preorder as of today.
Books by Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa are due out in November. Ludwig Tieck & Niu Sengru will be published next spring.
asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
Books by Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa are due out in November. Ludwig Tieck & Niu Sengru will be published next spring.
asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
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Better and better, man.
October 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Better and better, man.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
October 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
It’s all fun and games until your four-year-old reveals the face of her imaginary friend.
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It’s all fun and games until your four-year-old reveals the face of her imaginary friend.
Little poems everywhere, in Wittgenstein, for those with eyes to see
October 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Little poems everywhere, in Wittgenstein, for those with eyes to see
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in the mornings you can feel the anxiety machine starting up
October 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
in the mornings you can feel the anxiety machine starting up
Alright, it’s got a cover and a pub date and can be yours for four interest-free payments of $4.75 via Klarna, for some reason! www.mcnallyeditions.com/books/p/elis...
September 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Alright, it’s got a cover and a pub date and can be yours for four interest-free payments of $4.75 via Klarna, for some reason! www.mcnallyeditions.com/books/p/elis...
There’s a guy running for city council here on the slogan: “Empathy with restraint.”
September 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
There’s a guy running for city council here on the slogan: “Empathy with restraint.”
Niche request, I know, but I’d be grateful for any info on the best Francophone bookstores, used and new, in Montreal . . . particularly shops with good film sections . . .
August 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Niche request, I know, but I’d be grateful for any info on the best Francophone bookstores, used and new, in Montreal . . . particularly shops with good film sections . . .
Vermont / New Hampshire
August 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Vermont / New Hampshire
Oh man, July’s almost over, better get started on lesson planning so that I’m 100% prepared for my first day of classes at the
July 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Oh man, July’s almost over, better get started on lesson planning so that I’m 100% prepared for my first day of classes at the
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New entry at the Ruiz Diaries.
ruizdiaries.substack.com
This Friday it's Ruiz's birthday.
I'm not sure what to do or if I'll be able to do anything for it.
Hope you enjoy.
ruizdiaries.substack.com
This Friday it's Ruiz's birthday.
I'm not sure what to do or if I'll be able to do anything for it.
Hope you enjoy.
The Raúl Ruiz Diaries | Substack
I upload a daily entry of the Raúl Ruiz diaries. I'm just translating these entries from Spanish to English because I think they need to be shared with a wider audience. Any tip or donation helps a lo...
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July 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
New entry at the Ruiz Diaries.
ruizdiaries.substack.com
This Friday it's Ruiz's birthday.
I'm not sure what to do or if I'll be able to do anything for it.
Hope you enjoy.
ruizdiaries.substack.com
This Friday it's Ruiz's birthday.
I'm not sure what to do or if I'll be able to do anything for it.
Hope you enjoy.
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Whoever’s kid did this to my copy of Nicanor Parra was channeling Caspar David Friedrich
![A sticker of a pensive (purple? I’m colorblind) cartoon bear standing in more humano with hands behind its back, seeming to look away from the viewer off into the space of the page to which it’s affixed, at the title printed at its head: “Poemas y antipoemas” [1954]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qvytxmeinpxipwddfqc6jx7e/bafkreia7eltl7ymj2xqp2k62qfhvie2hbke6tnjamwckho6jtnaidxnuua@jpeg)
July 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Whoever’s kid did this to my copy of Nicanor Parra was channeling Caspar David Friedrich