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Nicholas Dames
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Professor @ Columbia, on forms in/of the novel • co-EIC Public Books • writer elsewhere • THE CHAPTER forthcoming from Princeton UP (November '23)
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Marginal jotting (pen, never pencil) via a system of eccentric symbols developed over years; these synthesized into a list written on inside back cover or on endpapers (if any); then, if needed, this list is rewritten and elaborated in digital form with some phrases toward future actual sentences

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Thanks, Ted!

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Imagine your first experience reading a book divided into chapters. What confronted you was a story that unexpectedly stuttered. Discover the fascinating history of the chapter from @njdames.bsky.socialpress.princeton.edu/ideas/the-lo...#Literature

A stack of books with the silk bookmark ribbons sticking out.
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

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A history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to today
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Important (and depressing) to remember that the narrator of that song is *at most* in his late 30s and probably, like DF himself at the time, 32-33

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NYC-area friends: there’s a book launch event for THE CHAPTER at the n+1 office in Greenpoint on Wednesday night, where I’ll be talking with critic/journalist/novelist Christine Smallwood about all things segmented, interrupted, paused, etc. Beer and wine (and book copies) for sale!

Nicholas Dames and Christine Smallwood in conversation
Nicholas Dames and Christine Smallwood in conversation

On Wednesday, November 15, join critics and n+1 contributors Nicholas Dames and Christine Smallwood for a conversation about Dames’s new book, The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the ...

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Today is my book’s official pub date, and while I’m not at home— or even in the US— to celebrate it, I *was* able to visit it at the storied Heffers in Cambridge. Now for the longest of deep breaths.

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Vilém Flusser, Does Writing Have a Future? (2002)

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Nicholas Dames
@njdames.bsky.social
Professor @ Columbia, on forms in/of the novel • co-EIC Public Books • writer elsewhere • THE CHAPTER forthcoming from Princeton UP (November '23)
374 followers230 following18 posts