H. Dietzman

Lit & Writing prof | work/labor, political theology, material culture

[H. Dietzman @hfdietzman]

!!!

[Soft Union @softuniononline]

New fiction by @hfdietzman.
https://t.co/SmfeIY5llz

[H. Dietzman @hfdietzman]

@calvinthomasc Idk how people write when they haven’t read the bible

[Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine]

For some, academia is a profession. For others, academia is a lifestyle. Much follows from this.

[Alisha Dietzman @agdietzman]

what about a woman

[H. Dietzman @hfdietzman]

“This silence, of course, conceals the way in which cultural capital is underwritten by capital capital; the ways in which literary legitimacy is made possible because someone subsidized it.”

[The Baffler @thebafflermag]

People in the publishing industry are weirdly quiet about money. But as Wes Enzinna points out, every literary career is underwritten by some sort of capital, be it from a wealthy family member, a fellowship, or a dubious side gig.
https://t.co/mbEBUHbk3B

[Mal Ahern @malahern]

gonna start calling the social sciences the "soft humanities"

[H. Dietzman @hfdietzman]

@calvinthomasc AWP off-site, Tashkent. I’m down, let’s roll

[A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness]

Help save classics at the University of Iowa-- if only the Ivies end up have classics departments, it means access to these texts, literatures, and histories is severely limited. https://t.co/vby4FTorJR

[H. Dietzman @hfdietzman]

Beyond thrilled that this story found a home at @Terrainorg!

[Terrain.org @Terrainorg]

Harrison F. Dietzman's wildland firefighter story "Cowboys" is our first finalist in the https://t.co/HyL4bmHvKG 16th Annual Contest in Fiction.

https://t.co/dQjYw3LDhG

#story #fiction #fire #firefighters #danger #driving

[Terrain.org @Terrainorg]

Harrison F. Dietzman's wildland firefighter story "Cowboys" is our first finalist in the https://t.co/HyL4bmHvKG 16th Annual Contest in Fiction.

https://t.co/dQjYw3LDhG

#story #fiction #fire #firefighters #danger #driving

[H. Dietzman @hfdietzman]

Not “disappeared,” moved to indies. There’s a large “straight male” readership that’s ignored by Big 5 publishers. And that’s fine. It can stay that way. Corporate publishing largely sucks.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"Talk to anyone in publishing, and they’ll agree...they put out fiction for women, and for gay men, and for teens and tweens (mainly girls), there’s not much point in publishing novels for straight men. That audience has disappeared." https://t.co/qwumVFZpwC

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

"I identify with the main character" no. Characters are a fantasy propagated by big realism to distract you from the novel's form. Wake up

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

The man murdered by ICE in Minneapolis, Minnesota while he shielded women from being attacked by Trump regime thugs has been identified as Alex Pretti.

He was a US citizen, a registered nurse, an athlete, a son, a brother, and a hero. The regime murdered him. #3E #GoodVsEvil

[Jacobin @jacobin]

The conventional understanding of Marxism as doggedly anti-religious is wrong.

In fact, as the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre argued, Christianity and Marxism have at times inspired in humanity a radical sense of hope to build a more just world.https://t.co/gc3DRvTPCe

[H. Dietzman @hfdietzman]

Note that not a single person in this conversation attended a “Christian” MFA or graduate program. All graduated from highly regarded public and non-sectarian private universities.

[H. Dietzman @hfdietzman]

A reminder, as I tell my students each semester, to never pay tuition for a graduate degree in the humanities or fine arts, no matter how much the program attempts to appeal to your beliefs or values

[Nadya Williams @NadyaWilliams81]

So very grateful that @JMWSPT, @MischaWillett, and Joshua Hren (of @WisebloodBooks) took the time for this interview! Part I (about the making of Christian writers) live now at the place that rhymes with Civil War biscuits, Part II (about Christian MFAs) at Inkwell this Sunday.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

[Soft Union @softuniononline]

There’s no alternative to literature.

[H. Dietzman @hfdietzman]

our demonic ghoul of a vp (and a lot of other people) should maybe read the bible or whatever

[H. Dietzman @hfdietzman]

A nation founded on the principles of “taking what is rightfully mine” will of course experience a crisis of bravery that stems from a pre-existing crisis of neighbor love.

[H. Dietzman @hfdietzman]

But he [the lawyer], wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”