Brian Michael Norton

Lit professor, philosophy dabbler, errant jogger, champion of the quotidian.

Live-tweeting the #18thCentury since 2012.

[Brian Michael Norton @BMichaelNorton]

Thrilled to have an essay ("Aesthetics, Science, and the Theater of the World") in the new issue of New Literary History! You can find it here: https://t.co/X6k1vhqTMM or here: https://t.co/JRyj91p485

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My wife got me the @foliosociety Tristram Shandy for my birthday! It's beautiful!

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@stewdust I know what you mean about the failing part. Did your students enjoy the book?

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@hujane Forgot to say we also bought a harness to help with stairs and outdoor walks

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@hujane Our vet prescribed carprofen on top of the gabapentin. It was a miracle drug while it lasted. A return to tails wags and play posture and general good feeling. I'm wishing you both the best!

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@cweiss_smith Natiform! Rumpy! And the @hujane-inspired photo for callipygian!

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@sm_osment Maggie Nelson, Laurence Sterne

[Brian Michael Norton @BMichaelNorton]

The only thing left to do is put on some sweatpants and start signing Executive Orders

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@DaveMazella Do you know Joshua Landy's "In Praise of Depth: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Enjoy the Hidden"? It's an annoyingly likable, clearheaded treatment of the subject.

[Erica L. Ball @Erica_L_Ball]

So thrilled our book As If She Were Free is included on this list of The Best Black History Books of 2020 – AAIHS!!! ⁦@snyder_terri⁩ ⁦⁦@cambUP_History⁩ #twitterstorians https://t.co/V46TN9wUXi

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@rabidduckwit @RitaFelski Top of the post-grading reading list: "Theory Attachment" and Hooked.

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@dlspratt @DaveMazella @cweiss_smith @jasoninmia Me too. (Can't resist this Sterne love.)

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@ahstevens1 Me too. I just follow the lists.

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Have a million things to do but can't stop reading Rumaan Alam's Leave the World Behind.

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@dlspratt Glad you liked it! We only watched the cheese rolling one. I wanted Flo to win that stupid race so bad it hurt. I cried a little. (It was a hard week.)

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@dlspratt My knowledge here is very secondhand. But I'll be at it, if not in it.

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@dlspratt I'm sold. My recommendation to you: the cheese rolling episode of We Are the Champions. The human spirit in all its silly naked glory. (At least this is how it appeared to me after a hard week and an old-fashioned.)

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@CleoHanaway The middle one's gonna make you cry. (But not because of babies.)

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@ENOgden The palm trees do stick with you. The little drawings. But I love that book.

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"They estimate that the book’s first edition consisted of some 600 and possibly as many as 750 copies — hundreds more than the 250 or so that historians had previously assumed." https://t.co/SrQr0M9dmK