Not really here anymore. Find me on Bluesky. Departments Editor, @newterritorymag. Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity & Midwestern Lit (@lsupress, 2019)
For this #LiteraryLandscapes essay, I appreciate how Monique focuses less on Morrison's fiction and thinks more about her as a public speaker and symbol.
One of the super cool things about this essay was how Alice takes the experience of reading and thinking about Morrison and connects it to her own life, an ocean away.
Toni Morrison & Chesapeake Bay—driving along the Bay, trying to experience the place concretely, seeing the links between past and present, proximate and distant. #LiteraryLandscapes by Alice Sundman. #ToniMorrison#ChesapeakeBay#Maryland@thisisFINLAND https://t.co/zng0ETgxMT
I've never had two essays in the same volume deal with locations in the same city, but I love how Ashley's essay about Lakeview Park plays off Tara's reflections on Morrison's childhood home.
Check out #LiteraryLandscapes Vol. 15—which is entirely on the work of #ToniMorrison! Essays by Tara Conley, Trivius Caldwell, Ashley Burge, Monique Wingard, and Alice Sundman. Enjoy! https://t.co/EZdqxXcm6V
Evidence that @harvilla understands his demographic at the deepest level: middle-aged Midwestern man listening to a podcast about 90s music while cleaning up from a flood
Absolutely unsurprising—yet still damning—to read the stats about Florida university professors fleeing the state that Dew cites in this column. It doesn't have to be this way. https://t.co/1PPJgU8jRS
Congratulations to Pete Dulin and Rosemary Hope, whose #LiteraryLandscapes essays were our 2024 nominees for Best of the Net! Thanks to Humanities Kansas and High Plains Public Radio for helping bring "Literary Landscapes in Kansas" to life!
Thanks to Bitter Southerner for publicizing resistance to FL censorship efforts: “School board elections are winnable,” Moricz said. “The margins are winnable. We’re able to show students that if one marching band voted, they could flip a school board.” https://t.co/c5EA70WVj6
@fewstein In the Midwest I’d say Sujey Vega’s Latino Heartland, Adam Ochonicky’s The American Midwest in Film and Literature, and (at the risk of self-promotion) my own: Old-Fashioned Modernism
More and more people—in tech companies, consultancies, regulators, universities, among others—are saying this and proving it to be true: AI does very bad work and creates more labor for humans. https://t.co/1D3u3UXo1s
Faculty are not "better" than other state employees. But they are different. They are hired for their ideas, not to reflect the views of the state. Ban them from expressing those ideas, and you no longer have a university; you have a propaganda factory. https://t.co/DdM8eZeGOh