Out of Chris Nealon’s new collection All About You (Wave Books, 2024), one part of the long title poem. To admire: the speed (and its variability), the sheer formal capaciousness, the turn-on-a-dime register shifts . . .
To confront the new normal climate change has foisted upon us, the novel needs to adapt. Richard Powers has been at the innovative forefront—so why, asks @madeleinewatts.bsky.socialthebaffler.com/latest/clear...
Richard Powers’s “Playground” offers up so many ideas ripe for innovation—but the story gets lost inside the plot.
Today I learned that Moebius did illustrations for Maxwell House Coffee magazine ads. And they are amazing.
Some reporting on the Stanford CW program and the decision of the tenured faculty to fire all lecturers. The goal is to structure the lecturers as "temps" and make sure they know they aren't real jobs, just 1-year waystations for former students. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
The university says creative writing faculty recommended returning its Jones Lectureships to their “original intent” as short-term teaching appointments for talented writers. A lecturer of 20 years sa...
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About 80 % of students thought this was a swanky straw hat from the 1950s. Truth is that it’s the oldest Roman grasswork "Panama hat" extant, from Fayum in Egypt. In 2017 they radiocarbon dated it to 420-568 CE. Turns out the “Dark Ages” was really more about cool shade (Pitt Rivers Museum, UK) 🎩
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