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On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays @presspeninsula (UK) & @uchicagopress (US) 2022 / Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism @uchicagopress 2018 emilyogden.net Charlottesville, VA Joined August 2018-
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Join the staff of a magazine that was just won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in Literature, Science, and Politics. We're hoping to hire quickly, so apply soon: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…
Ultimately the politics of art comes down to this: good art expands duration and gives you more life whereas bad art takes your time and slowly murders you.
Back in the Sidecar @NewLeftReview with an essay on the poet, critic, and visual artist Wayne Koestenbaum (aka @CampMarmalade) whose new collection STUBBLE ARCHIPELAGO is out now from @SemiotextePress. newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…
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THE GOOD WIFE is one of the unsung masterpieces of its vaunted era of TV, and Robert & Michelle King two of its wiliest artists. For the @NYTmag (!!!), I wrote about ELSBETH, a rogue spin-off that's become self-aware. cc: @RKing618 @carriepreston nytimes.com/2024/03/21/mag…
Big week for emergence
Anthony Lane in a fantastic review essay in the @NewYorker : “Byron: A Life in Ten Letters”…is a compact biography, elegantly structured…. Each letter affords Stauffer a chance for a ruminative riff on…Byron’s history” newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
Reading Emerson‘s Essays now. Perhaps they will have a good influence on me. - Wittgenstein, 15 November 1914
A dream review by John Banville (!) in @GuardianBooks : he calls BYRON: A LIFE IN TEN LETTERS “a splendid thing, colourful and busy with incident, but always thoughtful and astute in its judgments” theguardian.com/books/2024/feb…
I'm jazzed to share news about the book series I'm editing with @johannawinant & @kjavadizadeh for Amherst College Press. It's called Re:Verse and is dedicated to the poetry collection: each short book will be about 1 particular book of poems. Inquiries and pitches very welcome!
The Time of the Essay: a new special issue @CounterText is OUT! Under the brilliant stewardship of @mario_aquilina2. Feat. essays on dialectics, crisis, post-internet writing, Lisa Robertson, performance, manifestos, essayistic temporality, an interview w/ Ogutu Muraya ... 1/2
The Time of the Essay: a new special issue @CounterText is OUT! Under the brilliant stewardship of @mario_aquilina2. Feat. essays on dialectics, crisis, post-internet writing, Lisa Robertson, performance, manifestos, essayistic temporality, an interview w/ Ogutu Muraya ... 1/2
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This was a fun episode!
On the new episode of Selected Essays, @JessSwoboda and Zach Fine talk to Michael Clune about Thomas Nagel’s “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” and how to write literature that captures the rhythm of consciousness: buzzsprout.com/1791285/149761…
Calling Yale library, librarian answers. “Good afternoon. I mean, good morning. Wait, hang on, it’s definitely afternoon now. Good afternoon. (pause) This is a disaster.”
my mother prepping me for a reunion: they’re all gonna be moms, wear something that shows off your figure
It was an honor to join @KQEDForum this morning to talk about Paul Yamazaki's influence on my own bookselling career, as well as the value of independent bookstores. (I only regret that I wasn't still on air when it came time to recommend a book.) kqed.org/forum/20101019…
3yo: What’s it feel like to be a grownup? Me: Well, it can feel all kinds of ways. Right now, I’m happy to be with you. 3yo: No, what does it feel like INSIDE YOUR EYES? Me: Um, I guess, good? 3yo: No, I mean, I’m a little sweaty. Are you a little sweaty? Me: A little. 3yo: Ok
truly Lamarckable that Freud believed in the phylogenetic transference of neurosis.
"Cézanne's Doubt" by Maurice Merleau-Ponty is just as essential as Eliot's "Tradition..." It obliterates many of the counterfeit and bloviated notions pop culture assigns to an artist's work/life. Trade in any name for Cézanne-Melville, Stein, Kubrick, Denis-it's all the same.
Heartening to know that Cate has a 3-hour leaf blower monologue too!
Cate Blanchett vs leaf blowers is the only celebrity feud I care about
She came into the room carrying the cat by the scruff of its neck. With his eyes narrowed and his paws stuck straight out before him, Max looked like a small child pretending to be a ghost. - Deirdre Madden, Authenticity
I feel about Elizabeth Hardwick’s essay on the Brontës the way these intense internet teens feel about Taylor Swift. nybooks.com/articles/1972/…
Thanks @CUPBookshop for a great launch for BYRON: A LIFE IN TEN LETTERS! Get a 20% discount on your copy with code BYRON20 at cup.org/3U1gxVn
These students have sacrificed their access to education, housing, and healthcare out of their principled opposition to a genocide and insistence on defying those complicit in it. I hope I can have even a fraction of their courage.
It is worth stating plainly what happened at Columbia: the raid was l the product of collusion between a university administration and rightwing politicians to suppress politically disfavored speech. I wrote about the mass arrests at Columbia: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I’m gift shopping for a child’s birthday and am sincerely tempted to get this Angler fish stuffy for myself.
remember how when we were little we used to bug you while you were peeing? (5yo nieces while i’m peeing)
when being fed, the fattest of my cats fatly inspects the other cats' bowls to ensure he isn't being ripped off