Scott Selisker
@sselisker.bsky.social
literature prof at U of Arizona. books: HUMAN PROGRAMMING (on metaphors for ideology), NETWORKED CHARACTER (on social networks in recent US fiction and history, forthcoming 2026ish). he, suh-LISK-er, views mine, sporadically present here.
Excited to read this! So much joy in heist, joy in the mere remembering of RIFIFI, the best.
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Excited to read this! So much joy in heist, joy in the mere remembering of RIFIFI, the best.
Got some good writing done a long while back in the Biblioteca Nacional de España reading room in Madrid while tagging along F, lovely spot!
November 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Got some good writing done a long while back in the Biblioteca Nacional de España reading room in Madrid while tagging along F, lovely spot!
*in middle or upper admin
October 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
*in middle or upper admin
Chili not tomato? Good enchilada sauce is almost 90+% rehydrated chilis … from scratch is delicious (esp for moles etc) but cans/jars are nearly as good. Frontera’s seems to have disappeared here but Siete is also good.
October 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Chili not tomato? Good enchilada sauce is almost 90+% rehydrated chilis … from scratch is delicious (esp for moles etc) but cans/jars are nearly as good. Frontera’s seems to have disappeared here but Siete is also good.
Surf’s up, way up!
October 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Surf’s up, way up!
Agreed. I was expecting worse, so I’ll def take the qualified no as a win.
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Agreed. I was expecting worse, so I’ll def take the qualified no as a win.
Lovely! When I was in grad school they had all the Flo Gibson Henry James on cassette tapes. I listened to the one on my exam list—and then PC and many others. Loved Maggie Gram’s piece about Flo G and the format: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Listening to Books
My first audiobook was Flo Gibson’s recording of The Mill on the Floss, which, by the way, is one of the very great audiobooks: the sound is scratchy, but Gibson’s voice is confident and almost conspi...
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October 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Lovely! When I was in grad school they had all the Flo Gibson Henry James on cassette tapes. I listened to the one on my exam list—and then PC and many others. Loved Maggie Gram’s piece about Flo G and the format: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
!! And got the moves!!
October 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
!! And got the moves!!
I enjoyed learning Ric Ocasek of the Cars produced that first album, to a click track, and said of it, sometimes perfect time is a hook by itself…
October 16, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I enjoyed learning Ric Ocasek of the Cars produced that first album, to a click track, and said of it, sometimes perfect time is a hook by itself…
Looks like nobody's said On Beauty or White Noise yet?
October 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Looks like nobody's said On Beauty or White Noise yet?
Disagree! Looking forward to rereading upon imminent audiobook release! I will, alas, probably never teach it or Lightning Rods, but I think about both all the time. (Along with Some Trick's "On the Town.")
October 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Disagree! Looking forward to rereading upon imminent audiobook release! I will, alas, probably never teach it or Lightning Rods, but I think about both all the time. (Along with Some Trick's "On the Town.")