Gavin Keulks

Lit & Film Prof. Also MartinAmisWeb(master) and Editor, Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis, launching with @mymartinamis live, in London, Aug 25. 📚👇

[Gavin Keulks @GavinKeulks]

New this summer: The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis. I'm honored to have served as editor and contributed a chapter too. 14 contributors, 5 countries, one accomplished (and controversial) writer.

Book launch, Aug 25 in London: "My Martin Amis LIVE: After Amis," hosted by @JackAldane, with a keynote by Will Self (@wself). 9 of my 14 contributors will be there in person on panels. @BirkbeckUoL & @21Soho, 2:30pm–late.

Book (note "Look Inside"): https://t.co/FfiqqS5fJf

Tickets: https://t.co/S1D2AzczjF

[Gavin Keulks @GavinKeulks]

I frequently exhaust my usage quota on Claude Code, Pro plan. Bless @claudeai for that. It's like being told, "you're working too hard -- stop that. What's wrong with you? Go read a book or hit the gym or something." Amen, Claude. Amen.

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@TEEPHTREND Poseidon voted “nay”

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@Super70sSports Lifelong Packers fan, grew up in Wisconsin @UWMadison grad. I can't tell you how many Sundays Barry Sanders ruined for me in his prime.

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@RonanFarrow people correctly referencing War Games -- but the Entity in recent Mission Impossible films is the modern version. Neither will ever occur. AI has a much simpler (and boring) route to eliminate humanity: simply shut down the electrical grids. Boom, done, buh-bye humans.

[Gavin Keulks @GavinKeulks]

Thank you for the kind words, Jim. Working with you and the other 13 contributors to that book was one of the highlights of my professional life.

Equally rewarding has been working with you, @jackaldane and @YorkUnderwood on our "After Amis" launch event. @mymartinamis @CambridgeUP

Tickets: https://t.co/lALUtvpvRP

[Jim Diedrick @JimDiedrickATL]

Excellent blog entry by my colleague and Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis editor Gavin Keulks:

YOLO’ing your Book Launch, or (ahem) Multi-channel Cross-promotion for the Digital Age https://t.co/LM5hRjT2dK

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@John_Attridge This, this right here, this is the post. Well played, sir.

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@TheCinesthetic haven't studied them closely enough, but there's gotta be some important Easter Eggs in Sammie's posters on the wall. No other reason for them to be there. Genius filmmaking.

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@AuthorGFAllen Not singly. Thinking deeply about what you read is required — and not solely about plot, theme and meaning. As Nabokov taught everyone, think about the author’s decisions, not the characters’.

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cc: @DXBMediaOffice and @DubaiPressClub

Submitted for your next promotional campaign (and one of the best sentences ever):

"Hypertrophied mansard roofs supported by gargantuan Corinthian columns; Pantagruelian porticos leaning out over six-lane expressways planted with wastes of begonias drenched in costly desalinated water — the spectacle Dubai presents is of a last-chance saloon at which all the formal decadences of the West have come home to die."

Will Self, "Isenshard," in Why Read (2022, originally published in The Future of the Skyscraper, 2015).

[Gavin Keulks @GavinKeulks]

@London_W4 superlative work

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@SkylarSkye3 like everyone else who visits Vegas, they ran out of money

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Caption: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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100%. I was one of the earliest adopters of the platform -- back when we communicated with our own personal (!) emails. Then they realized that allowed everyone to bypass the system entirely, so they shut that down. Eventually AirBnb became completely corporatized. Haven't stayed in one for many years. Hotels far better. Same price too (for 1-2 people).

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@DirtAndSprague priceless, win the day, man, win the day

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@wartsandbrawls truth. And meanwhile this same managerial class ponders whether AI can replace academic staff, completely oblivious to the fact that AI will disrupt management most, not labor. Sadly, faculty have learned all too clearly that they are labor.

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@senseiscottwhit as the father of two teenaged sons, my go-to strategy is barking and yelling, then repeat, louder

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On my run today through a local park, I overheard a small girl exclaim, "mommy, look how high I'm going!" She, the girl, was swinging happily. Do we not say this simple sentence repeatedly throughout our lives, varying only in age?

[Gavin Keulks @GavinKeulks]

@senseiscottwhit hell yeah, one of my favorite gifs from one of my favorite films, well played, well played

[Gavin Keulks @GavinKeulks]

Glad this is settled. My first book was one they harvested. Definitely not a best-seller. But still, play by the rules, please. I'm a Claude Pro subscriber -- @AnthropicAI , just give me that tier free for life and we'll call it even, okay?

[Reuters @Reuters]

Anthropic reached a $1.5 billion settlement in a copyright case brought by a group of authors who accused it of misusing their books to train its Claude AI model, the largest known settlement of its kind https://t.co/LgIIIb8lSI

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Still baffles me how many people don't know how multi-talented Amanda Seyfried is. Had Ariana Grande not been, well, Ariana Grande, Seyfried would have nabbed the role of Glinda in Wicked. And last year's The Testament of Ann Lee was a dynamo performance.

[🌷🦋 Love Music 🎶 & Dance 💃🏻🕺🏻 @Tiana_Celine_23]

🎼 This song is a trap for most singers; it will punish you the moment you lose your breath control or pitch. She not only sang the notes perfectly, but she also maintained her composure - she's amazing. 🌷