GuyStevenson

Academic (American Lit, 60s Counterculture, Culture Wars). Teaches at @GoldsmithsUoL and @QMUL. Writes for @TheTLS, @LAReviewofBooks, @Lit_Review

[GuyStevenson @GNAStevenson]

A piece I wrote for @aeonmag, about feminism, the 1960s and going back to the roots of the ‘culture war’ to fix it. Thanks @samhaselby for the judicious edit https://t.co/1duhjZ9j9m

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'American hypocrisy is revealed through vignettes.'

Guy Stevenson (@GNAStevenson) on a classic account of a US army massacre in the Vietnam War
https://t.co/rwaMYWrztH

[Infinite Books @infinitebooks]

C. S. Lewis, advice to a young writer

[GuyStevenson @GNAStevenson]

V happy to make the front page of this week's
@TheTLS, discussing Jessica @HootenWilson's reworking of #FlanneryOConnor's final, unpublished novel, 'Why do the Heathen Rage?' https://t.co/IsIkLC1tgS

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'Why Do the Heathen Rage? shocks by showing the inner workings of racism on a mind.'

Guy Stevenson (@GNAStevenson) on Flannery O’Connor’s last novel, reconstructed from her archive
https://t.co/x6gp4z2aQY

[George Berridge @George_Berridge]

From this week’s @TheTLS: @GNAStevenson on Pynchon and the Anthropocene https://t.co/n2Kh3DzPkU

[Goldsmiths Short Courses @ShortsAtGold]

What happens when unorthodox ideas begin to be accepted into the mainstream? Through this series of live webinars, taught by @GNAStevenson, explore our present-day #CultureWars. Next 9-week course starts, 20 February: https://t.co/Ac71T82rpV @goldsmithseng #CulturalStudies

[Goldsmiths Short Courses @ShortsAtGold]

What happens when unorthodox ideas begin to be accepted into the mainstream? Through this series of live webinars, taught by @GNAStevenson, explore our present-day #CultureWars. Next 9-week course starts, 20 February: https://t.co/Ac71T81TAn @goldsmithseng #CulturalStudies

[GuyStevenson @GNAStevenson]

Here’s my latest piece, on Benjamín Labatut's The Maniac, for @Lit_Review. A brilliant semi-fictional account of the humans behind the atomic bomb, PCs and AI (inc. lots of juice that Nolan’s Oppenheimer left out): https://t.co/c38VDSxVXF

[GuyStevenson @GNAStevenson]

My latest piece – on @jamesellroy's 'The Enchanters', in this month's @Lit_Review. A brilliantly inventive but slightly icky take on the Marilyn Monroe story https://t.co/LSMLPCIWHD

[Goldsmiths Short Courses @ShortsAtGold]

What happens when unorthodox ideas begin to be accepted into the mainstream? Through this series of live webinars, taught by @GNAStevenson, explore our present-day #CultureWars. Next 9-week course starts, 10 October: https://t.co/Ac71T82rpV @goldsmithseng #CulturalStudies

[Goldsmiths Short Courses @ShortsAtGold]

Establish a historical view of today’s #CultureWars that are being fought around #IdentifyPolitics on this 9-week course led by @GNAStevenson that takes you back to the 1960’s countercultural revolution. Next course starts, 10 October: https://t.co/Ac71T82rpV @goldsmithseng

[GuyStevenson @GNAStevenson]

@arthoyle @UvA_Amsterdam @MarcFarrant Thanks, Arthur! Hope all’s well with you mate

[GuyStevenson @GNAStevenson]

Had a blast giving my guest lecture at @UvA_Amsterdam yesterday (‘understanding the culture wars: how the 60s explain our divided age’). Thank you, @MarcFarrant, for having me! And thanks to your students for their smart, sensitive insights into our fraught times #culturewars

[GuyStevenson @GNAStevenson]

@LottieHistory @GoldsmithsUoL There’s no such reference in the course outline. If you saw it in an old promo tweet, ‘TERF’ should have been in quotes. I aim for balanced analysis of perspectives on these arguments, not to endorse or make light of them. Absurd to label me an ‘insane misogynist’ over this.

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'Written by an ex-ballerina, it looks at what adult life does to childhood dreams, and just how long the resentments and myths imbibed from parents can take to overturn.' (@GNAStevenson)

https://t.co/sPPNKPi1sk

[GuyStevenson @GNAStevenson]

I’ve another review out this week, in @TheTLS, on @laurapoitras’ Nan Goldin doc ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’.

Expected a film about art & activism; got a masterly, unfiltered portrait of the pain and bravery that shaped her

https://t.co/hAGmMVaavC

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed might be billed as a film about an artist fighting the establishment, but it can be understood as a tender, difficult exploration of Goldin’s quest for the same.' (@GNAStevenson)

https://t.co/hEYM4zBRV4

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

“'Mueum' is a very English dirge: one of stubborn Pinteresque rudeness, ‘bad tea’ and ‘body odour,’ and cracked, casual violence.” @GNAStevenson reviews S.J. Fowler’s new novel.

[GuyStevenson @GNAStevenson]

Some words I wrote for @LAReviewofBooks on @stevenjfowler’s novel, ‘Mueum’. A chilling, funny mashup of Ballard, Pinter, and Cormac McCarthy. Hats off to @partisanhotel for putting this out https://t.co/MfTB4r4ow0