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August 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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If you want to read deeply researched accounts of what happened to novels in the last fifty or so years, may I recommend Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier uipress.uiowa.edu/books/novel-...
July 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
If you want to read deeply researched accounts of what happened to novels in the last fifty or so years, may I recommend Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier uipress.uiowa.edu/books/novel-...
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check out the entire issue here:
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Volume 77 Issue 2 | Comparative Literature | Duke University Press
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June 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Omid and I have been thinking a lot about weird professional trajectories, auteurism, late/early style, the studio system, and genre. So we're proposing a special issue! Send @omidb.bsky.social and me your abstracts:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/03/...
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March 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Omid and I have been thinking a lot about weird professional trajectories, auteurism, late/early style, the studio system, and genre. So we're proposing a special issue! Send @omidb.bsky.social and me your abstracts:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/03/...
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/03/...
Also me! Big Fiction is a truly wonderful (and somewhat intimidatingly comprehensive) book of the contemp. US novel. Well worth reading.
"Big Fiction’s ambitious project and keen analysis will make it a classic in criticism of contemporary US fiction." 😍😍😍😍 Love this review of my book alongside @alexandermanshel.bsky.social's great Writing Backwards asapjournal.com/reading-lite...
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November 30, 2023 at 7:35 PM
Also me! Big Fiction is a truly wonderful (and somewhat intimidatingly comprehensive) book of the contemp. US novel. Well worth reading.
This is me. I did this.
(Well done to both authors-- really terrific and careful work on the contemporary US novel)
(Well done to both authors-- really terrific and careful work on the contemporary US novel)
"While Sinykin and Manshel place accent on different components, these excellent, systematic studies complement each other well in defining the contours of the contemporary US novel...they are crowning achievements."
Thanks, Omid Bagherli and ASAP Journal, for this fabulous review!
Thanks, Omid Bagherli and ASAP Journal, for this fabulous review!
Reading Literary Success: On Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction and Alexander Manshel's Writing Backwards /...
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November 30, 2023 at 7:30 PM
This is me. I did this.
(Well done to both authors-- really terrific and careful work on the contemporary US novel)
(Well done to both authors-- really terrific and careful work on the contemporary US novel)
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New from me in the Drift: on the "fog of war" and the ideological work it performs www.thedriftmag.com/propaganda-d...
Propaganda, Disinformation, Ideology
The image of the “fog of war,” former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara explains in Errol Morris’s 2003 documentary of the same name, suggests that “war is so complex it’s beyond the abil...
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October 23, 2023 at 3:02 PM
New from me in the Drift: on the "fog of war" and the ideological work it performs www.thedriftmag.com/propaganda-d...
Some promotion!: The Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference is happening 2 weeks today. It features 4 panels of presentations and a keynote from Hil Malatino.
Free to all, on Tufts' Medford Campus.
Free to all, on Tufts' Medford Campus.
October 6, 2023 at 1:43 PM
Some promotion!: The Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference is happening 2 weeks today. It features 4 panels of presentations and a keynote from Hil Malatino.
Free to all, on Tufts' Medford Campus.
Free to all, on Tufts' Medford Campus.
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New Ordinary Unhappiness episode! we talk to the brilliant Grace Lavery (@gracelavery.bsky.social) about her new book, "Pleasure and Efficacy," pragmatic political uses of Freud, desire and shame, identity and activism, and the stakes of debates over what it means to be "real”
22: Realism and Other Romances feat. Grace Lavery - Ordinary Unhappiness
Abby and Patrick welcome writer and academic Grace Lavery to discuss her new book Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques. They discuss Grace’s relationship t...
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September 2, 2023 at 12:15 PM
New Ordinary Unhappiness episode! we talk to the brilliant Grace Lavery (@gracelavery.bsky.social) about her new book, "Pleasure and Efficacy," pragmatic political uses of Freud, desire and shame, identity and activism, and the stakes of debates over what it means to be "real”
The whole gang (3) is about to see Jeanne Dielman for the first time.
August 30, 2023 at 11:05 PM
The whole gang (3) is about to see Jeanne Dielman for the first time.