Just a little teddy bear!
(This joke was heavily workshopped with @transbookhistory.bsky.social and I can't be held fully responsible)
Why doesn’t anyone talk about Mark Twain’s other mode of transportation? The steamboat is old news.
Come for the discussion of newfoundland dog references in Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno, stay for the (sagacious!) assertion that "Queequeg is a golden retriever boyfriend" (feat. our comms team member @kassiejo.bsky.socialsoundcloud.com/c19podcast/s...
In this episode, Kassie Jo Baron (University of Tennessee at Martin) and Karah M. Mitchell (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) investigate the popularity and representation of “sagacious” Ne
In the Spring of 1864 Twain, while working as a beat reporter for the SF Morning Call, Twain witnessed the murder of a Chinese laborer by a mob that included cops. It radicalized him. He wrote it up, one of the first things he ever authored which he thought deserved to be called “literature”… 2/
“This isn’t a moment for politics” is a fascinating statement. Fascinatingly wrong, I mean, since under the conditions of political economy, no “moment,” action, or instance is devoid of political meaning.
I forgot to curse bluesky with this fever dreams.
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