Sheila Liming
@seeshespeak.bsky.social
reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
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Sheila Liming
@seeshespeak.bsky.social
· Mar 25
I wrote about the history of Wharton film adaptations (and why we haven’t had a decent one of those in 25 years!) for Film Quarterly
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For the 29 and for the wives and the sons and the daughters.
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
For the 29 and for the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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The @pghguild.com strike paper's top story: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit orders the PG to restore the striking journalists' contract, including its health care plan, and bargain a new one, and strikers are looking forward to returning to work: www.unionprogress.com/2025/11/10/t...
Third Circuit Court of Appeals rules for striking Pittsburgh journalists - Pittsburgh Union Progress
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday morning ruled for the journalists of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh in the federal case behind their more than three-year strike at the Pit...
www.unionprogress.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The @pghguild.com strike paper's top story: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit orders the PG to restore the striking journalists' contract, including its health care plan, and bargain a new one, and strikers are looking forward to returning to work: www.unionprogress.com/2025/11/10/t...
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Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
Senior Writer, Culture
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
I TRUST WE ARE ALL OBSERVING EDMUND FITZGERALD DAY
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I TRUST WE ARE ALL OBSERVING EDMUND FITZGERALD DAY
My new hobby is attending random choral concerts by myself so I don’t have to speak to anyone and break the spell that has been cast upon me by Tallis or Gibbons or Pärt or whomever
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
My new hobby is attending random choral concerts by myself so I don’t have to speak to anyone and break the spell that has been cast upon me by Tallis or Gibbons or Pärt or whomever
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Today at Flaming Hydra, I interviewed film and media historian @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on her deeply-researched new book uncovering the role played by Kodak—the household brand that popularized the snapshot—and other film manufacturers in industrial warfare.
Kodak, for the Wartimes of Your Life
Kodak, the company that popularized the “snapshot” and made photography accessible to the world, produced much more than the friendly, once-ubiquitous film rolls sold worldwide in their small, vivid y...
flaminghydra.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Today at Flaming Hydra, I interviewed film and media historian @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on her deeply-researched new book uncovering the role played by Kodak—the household brand that popularized the snapshot—and other film manufacturers in industrial warfare.
Who wants to pay me, a woman who wrote a book about offices, to tell Ross Douthat that he is, once again, completely wrong about everything?
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Who wants to pay me, a woman who wrote a book about offices, to tell Ross Douthat that he is, once again, completely wrong about everything?
Your daily reminder to never trust a byline that rhymes with “douche hat”
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Your daily reminder to never trust a byline that rhymes with “douche hat”
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"Why do you say
I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand
of an author I know like a lover though they died
years before I was born?"
-- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand
of an author I know like a lover though they died
years before I was born?"
-- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
The Death of the Humanities
Why do you say I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand of an author I know like a lover though they died years before I was born?
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"Why do you say
I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand
of an author I know like a lover though they died
years before I was born?"
-- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand
of an author I know like a lover though they died
years before I was born?"
-- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
I’ve read MRS DALLOWAY a dozen times.
I’ve taught it twice before.
But nothing has prepared me for what it would feel like to teach it after I reached the age that most of my teachers were when they taught it to me, sheesh.
I’ve taught it twice before.
But nothing has prepared me for what it would feel like to teach it after I reached the age that most of my teachers were when they taught it to me, sheesh.
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I’ve read MRS DALLOWAY a dozen times.
I’ve taught it twice before.
But nothing has prepared me for what it would feel like to teach it after I reached the age that most of my teachers were when they taught it to me, sheesh.
I’ve taught it twice before.
But nothing has prepared me for what it would feel like to teach it after I reached the age that most of my teachers were when they taught it to me, sheesh.
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It me, I’m the live bagpipe music at the Robert Louis Stevenson birthday celebration happening in Saranac Lake, NY next week.
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It me, I’m the live bagpipe music at the Robert Louis Stevenson birthday celebration happening in Saranac Lake, NY next week.
“Turns out that AI is very bad at most jobs, and this pivot to leisure is likely indicative of the industry’s mounting desperation, … now that it has failed to ‘outperform humans at most economically valuable work.’”
www.thecut.com/article/woul...
www.thecut.com/article/woul...
The People Using ChatGPT to Cheat at Their Hobbies
Why are so many of us letting AI have all the fun?
www.thecut.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“Turns out that AI is very bad at most jobs, and this pivot to leisure is likely indicative of the industry’s mounting desperation, … now that it has failed to ‘outperform humans at most economically valuable work.’”
www.thecut.com/article/woul...
www.thecut.com/article/woul...
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
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Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
teaching Woolf is going great, as you can see
November 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
teaching Woolf is going great, as you can see
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A few years ago I replied to a twitter thread about improvisation by recommending some other folks' work. Sheila, insightful, perhaps picking up my nervousness, inquired about my own. I was dead thrilled that she ended up citing me in her gorgeous book Hanging Out, and am now doubly grateful.
After several long years, I am thrilled to have this review of @dandipiero.bsky.social’s wonderful book, CONTINGENT ENCOUNTERS, finally appear in the African American Review
November 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
A few years ago I replied to a twitter thread about improvisation by recommending some other folks' work. Sheila, insightful, perhaps picking up my nervousness, inquired about my own. I was dead thrilled that she ended up citing me in her gorgeous book Hanging Out, and am now doubly grateful.
After several long years, I am thrilled to have this review of @dandipiero.bsky.social’s wonderful book, CONTINGENT ENCOUNTERS, finally appear in the African American Review
November 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
After several long years, I am thrilled to have this review of @dandipiero.bsky.social’s wonderful book, CONTINGENT ENCOUNTERS, finally appear in the African American Review
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If you read an amazing article from Teen Vogue about politics in the last several years, chances are that Lex McMenamin wrote it. Any publication that is serious about meeting this moment would be lucky to have them.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
If you read an amazing article from Teen Vogue about politics in the last several years, chances are that Lex McMenamin wrote it. Any publication that is serious about meeting this moment would be lucky to have them.
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CAMPUS VISIT WITH THE VAMPIRE
TEACHING DEMO WITH THE VAMPIRE
SIT-DOWN WITH THE DEAN WITH THE VAMPIRE
APOLOGETIC EMAIL THAT THE SEARCH WAS CANCELED WITH THE VAMPIRE
TEACHING DEMO WITH THE VAMPIRE
SIT-DOWN WITH THE DEAN WITH THE VAMPIRE
APOLOGETIC EMAIL THAT THE SEARCH WAS CANCELED WITH THE VAMPIRE
November 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
CAMPUS VISIT WITH THE VAMPIRE
TEACHING DEMO WITH THE VAMPIRE
SIT-DOWN WITH THE DEAN WITH THE VAMPIRE
APOLOGETIC EMAIL THAT THE SEARCH WAS CANCELED WITH THE VAMPIRE
TEACHING DEMO WITH THE VAMPIRE
SIT-DOWN WITH THE DEAN WITH THE VAMPIRE
APOLOGETIC EMAIL THAT THE SEARCH WAS CANCELED WITH THE VAMPIRE
In a draft of a story that was later published posthumously, Edith Wharton commented, “I have reached the age when the only night of the year when my little house is really
crowded is on All Souls' Eve when I sit alone and [my friends] come, who have been the joy and solace
of my life…”
crowded is on All Souls' Eve when I sit alone and [my friends] come, who have been the joy and solace
of my life…”
November 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
In a draft of a story that was later published posthumously, Edith Wharton commented, “I have reached the age when the only night of the year when my little house is really
crowded is on All Souls' Eve when I sit alone and [my friends] come, who have been the joy and solace
of my life…”
crowded is on All Souls' Eve when I sit alone and [my friends] come, who have been the joy and solace
of my life…”
Yesterday, I had to pack a lunch to take to an all-day workshop and was running low on groceries, so I quickly assembled a *brussels sprout sandwich,* which I then had to consume in front of other people like a total weirdo
November 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Yesterday, I had to pack a lunch to take to an all-day workshop and was running low on groceries, so I quickly assembled a *brussels sprout sandwich,* which I then had to consume in front of other people like a total weirdo
Galadriel except make it bling
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Galadriel except make it bling
5 students in my 8:30 class this morning. Let’s just declare Halloween a national holiday already, for the sake of the youth.
October 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
5 students in my 8:30 class this morning. Let’s just declare Halloween a national holiday already, for the sake of the youth.