Bryan M. Santin

ENG Professor. PhD, @notredame. POSTWAR AMERICAN FICTION AND THE RISE OF MODERN CONSERVATISM @CambridgeUP. CAMBRIDGE COMPANION to C20 US NOVEL & POLITICS

[Bryan M. Santin @BMSantin]

Today is publication day! "The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics" is now available. Many thanks to the chapter contributors and to the editors and staff @CambridgeUP.

https://t.co/Ij5FFzu0Um

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@shemaiahng Train Dreams - Denis Johnson
The Flamethrowers - Rachel Kushner

[Philip Bunn @PhilipDBunn]

New publication day 🥳🥳

Excited to share the fruit of much time reading Cormac McCarthy, aided by a couple productive conference presentations. McCarthy’s dialogues are fascinating and deserve better assessment than I can provide. I hope others will follow and surpass this.

[Bryan M. Santin @BMSantin]

@tylersyck Witness - Whittaker Chambers

Confessions of a Conservative - Garry Wills

[Bryan M. Santin @BMSantin]

@Scholars_Stage Off the top of the head:
- In the first half of the 20thc: Sinclair Lewis
- In the second half of the 20thc: Saul Bellow

[Fyodor Dostoevsky Collection 🪓 @Dostoevskyquot]

What is hell?

I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

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@ColumbiaUP @XanderManshel Well deserved! Congrats, @XanderManshel !!

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@sayjefe In my academic book on post45 US Lit & conservatism, I wrote part of a chapter on this exact topic! Basically, my argument is that Bellow's right-leaning highbrow aesthetic made him unpalatable to both Right & Left but for different reasons @ the end of the C20.

[Bryan M. Santin @BMSantin]

@rbnmckenna86 In terms of literary conservatives, Dostoyevsky. The leftist lit critic Irving Howe called him the greatest political novelist.

[Bryan M. Santin @BMSantin]

@ryanhasbadtaste WTV-to-Steinbeck pipeline!

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@MatthewSitman I taught a Fitzgerald + Hemingway course a few years ago, and the students (all Gen Z) were fascinated by EH's increasingly bizarre fascination w/ gender...culminating in his posthumous novel The Garden of Eden (!)

[Ryan Alexanderplatz @ryanhasbadtaste]

“I went to help her in my helpless way, with journalistic good intentions which sorrowed into love.”

Bill’s long-awaited essay (for me, at least) on his trip to Ukraine has been published in the summer issue of Granta. 🔗👇

[Byron's Glowing Filament @OedipasKvass]

The cover for Thomas Pynchon’s upcoming novel (never thought I’d say that phrase), Shadow Ticket, is out. And I’m a big fan.

[Travel Through Stories @travelstoriesyt]

!!!

[Bryan M. Santin @BMSantin]

RIP AM

[Xander Manshel @XanderManshel]

For @NewYorker, I wrote about how "The Great Gatsby," which turns 100 this month, went from flop to high school classic, and whether the novel can survive another hundred years
https://t.co/JyZ9LTX0J1

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

Ridiculously good book @Harvard_Press

[Henrik Karlsson @phokarlsson]

"you can only ever know another individual if you meet them in open dialogue — if you treat them as unfinished, as capable of surprise"

[Ryan Alexanderplatz @ryanhasbadtaste]

A banner day for American letters! @arcadepub will be publishing William T. Vollmann’s Cold War-GWOT-lonely man masterwork A TABLE FOR FORTUNE in four volumes in 2026!

[𖧧 @mothintoflames]

made a drawing of snoopy reading the brothers karamazov

[The Free Press @TheFP]

“A lot of very thoughtful people who once believed reason and science could explain everything—why we’re here, what comes after we’re gone, what it all means—are now feeling a genuine hunger for something more.” @PeterSavodnik https://t.co/pipSGnYKC6