Bethany Johnsen Creed

PhD Candidate in English at UCLA and managing editor of @therambling_.
2024 @LAReviewofBooks Publishing Workshop Fellow.

[Bethany Johnsen Creed @bethanysays_]

Highly recommend this article by my brilliant friend

[The Rambling @TheRambling_]

“Learning about each other this way has reminded me that we can glean other things from didactic forms than what they profess to teach us.” Miranda Hoegberg on novels and reality TV
https://t.co/kO2vYP8h3U

[The Rambling @TheRambling_]

“Amid its Rabelaisian cast are heads growing out of heads, heads growing out of behinds, plungers for hats, nude vagabonds, and eaten babies.” @tylerleeholter on the 50th anniversary of Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends
https://t.co/swqzAnK5J8

[The Rambling @TheRambling_]

"At its core, Amber Brown is about accepting the normal many kids are dealt." Abigail Spencer on finding troubled parental relationships in children's literature.
https://t.co/HbKkuKM6JZ

[Bethany Johnsen Creed @bethanysays_]

It's here! It's here!

[The Rambling @TheRambling_]

Give thanks—The Rambling is out! From Lost to Lord of the Rings, reality TV to “succubus chic,” you will not lack for conversation at the dinner table after reading our latest issue, now live at https://t.co/BsUibgAHWd.

[PubLab Journal @LARBPubLab]

Presenting PubLab Issue 7.0: Boundaries. Delve into essays, fiction, and poetry exploring transformation, love, place + time, and the human/beyond human experience. Join us in pushing the limits of our shared experiences. https://t.co/vQec2TzibT

[LA Review of Books Publishing Workshop @LARB_Workshop]

We were lucky enough today to have our workshop kicked off by the wonderful keynote speaker @dan_sinykin! Thank you so much Dan for taking the time to share your wisdom with us.

Fellows: Feel free to drop a cool fact or two you learned from today's session in the replies 💡📝

[Literary Hub @lithub]

“As horrible as this has been for all of us in America, what we are encountering is not the worst thing happening to professors right now.” @thrasherxy on the recent crackdowns against academic dissent, at home and in Gaza.
https://t.co/6yG8YTwzKq

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

“My baby writhes against my chest. I hold him close and vow not to move a muscle, because like an animal, he can sense fear and this is a test.” Nada Alic writes the first draft of motherhood in the new issue of LARB Quarterly. https://t.co/W6DNIOr4DT

[Bethany Johnsen Creed @bethanysays_]

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[Bethany Johnsen Creed @bethanysays_]

@kathylubey @jshelat1 It’s actually really easy if you know the technique! They all just fall off. https://t.co/9oGaQ3hUQC

[Bethany Johnsen Creed @bethanysays_]

Under the Jumbotron https://t.co/mS9Tf8q3Tr

[ASU English Dept. @asuEnglish]

.@ASU English professor @devoneylooser is author or editor of 11 books. Her best writing advice? "Write even when you aren’t feeling inspired" and "don’t read over and fuss over everything you wrote last time." Learn more via @xtnaboyd: https://t.co/JAvcppH2zv #ASUHumanities

[The Rambling @TheRambling_]

"Writing prose for experts is seen as harder than writing prose for non-experts, and I just don’t think that’s true. They’re both hard in different ways, and they’re both a practice." @bethanysays_ talks with #SisterNovelists author @devoneylooser
https://t.co/jEaBlSdB1c

[The Austen Connection @AustenConnect]

Loved this conversation! 💮🌷

[Dr. Emily Friedman @friede]

I do what I do in no small part because of @devoneylooser’s example. (My weird choices are, of course, my own damn fault)

[ASU English Dept. @asuEnglish]

"I hope that people will return to these primary sources that I used to find new things and tell us new things." That's @ASU Regents Professor @devoneylooser, speaking @TheRambling_ about researching her book, "Sister Novelists." Read more: https://t.co/ruMb2meh2f #ASUHumanities

[Ben Railton @AmericanStudier]

@TheRambling_ @bethanysays_ @devoneylooser Great convo! I wrote about one of those forgotten novelists, Carolyn Wells, for my column today:
https://t.co/uE0iBmuZwW

[The Rambling @TheRambling_]

@bethanysays_ and @devoneylooser talk historical fiction, recovering forgotten women novelists, and writing for the public.
https://t.co/jEaBlSdB1c

[Bethany Johnsen Creed @bethanysays_]

Definitely do yourself a favor and read the magnificent Sister Novelists if you happened to miss it!

[Bethany Johnsen Creed @bethanysays_]

I'm so excited to have been part of bringing out the latest Rambling, which is chock full of great, thoughtful pieces you should check out...and most especially thrilled for the opportunity to interview @devoneylooser in its pages, which was a dream!

[The Rambling @TheRambling_]

Our new issue is here, featuring even more encounters with favorite books from our youth!

Up first, Aaron Santesso on eighteenth-century literature’s troubling absence from banned book lists.
https://t.co/CzUlzngTdA