John Roache

Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literatures in English @ECW_UoM | latest O/A article: on 'marginality' and M. NourbeSe Philip

[John Roache @jproache]

I'm compiling a list of novels that contain depictions of undergraduate-level teaching (e.g. Coetzee's Disgrace, Ndichie's Americanah, Coe's Middle England etc etc). Can be central to plot or utterly minor. Any period, any region. Films/TV good too. Any takers?

[Contemporaries @ Post45 @AtPost45]

📚 🚨📚 OUT NOW! 📚 🚨📚
// CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE FROM THE CLASSROOM //
ed. Rebecca Roach

https://t.co/x7n8C1doZA

// teaching, learning, universities, defining the contemporary, defining the literary, AI, crisis, race, engagement, attention, mediality, play, and more //

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@Fromagehomme @ArinMizouri @ucu "they" meaning here UCU or UCEA?

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@bronterre1 Thanks Mike..I have messaged Peter directly just now.

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@PeterJStockwell @UoNEnglish @EnglishAssoc Hello Peter. Great idea. I am Admissions Tutor for English, American Studies and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester and would like to be involved. I haven't seen the email yet. I'm at [email protected]

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@danieljhartley I agree. Have you read "The Sunken Land..."?

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@giles_goatboy Inertia is fine

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@hering_david A book that continues to shape my life. Blobs yer nunkel.

[Naj @najjmahal]

the audre lorde questionnaire to oneself 🌱

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Let's be clear. Eli Lilly should apologize for increasing the price of insulin by over 1,200% since 1996 to $275 while it costs less than $10 to manufacture. The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1 to save lives, not to make Eli Lilly's CEO obscenely rich.

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@livreadslit @DerbyPublishing Sounds great Liv! I suspect you'd have much to teach me about the workings of BookTok. Good luck with the presentation.

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@aliciajrouverol @EnglishSalford Alicia, wonderful news! Huge congrats to you 😀

[John Roache @jproache]

@John_Attridge Maybe not that well known, but Michael Wood's Literature and the Taste of Knowledge began as the Empson lectures. I think the piece on What Maisie Knew is exceptional.

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@giles_goatboy @mattbucher @DepartureJay @ConcavityShow There's one particular letter where DeLillo gives advice to Wallace about dealing with journalists. Like, when they come to your house, make sure there's nothing private lying around that they might seize upon etc. I seem to remember Wallace responding to this with genuine shock.

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@bleakhousing True. It's actually a really good example of how persuasive rhetoric, alongside *very* selectively cited evidence, can produce a remarkably compelling account.

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@bleakhousing For me it's a polemical and narrow-minded book in the end. But I fully agree his style is persuasive.

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@EmmettStinson When it's good, it's very good. The Filmography of James O. Incandenza is really sublime, even if it's just a Borgesian riff.

Larges swathes of stuff on sport and embodiment and exhaustion and addiction, great.

Critique of commodification, often v fun.

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@EmmettStinson Generally agree with this. It's an uneven book and tries to cover this unevenness up with self reflexivity about being uneven, which only gets it so far.

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@V21collective Lerner's 10:04
Foster Wallace's Pale King
In a much more subtle Proustian way, Selvon's Lonely Londoners

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@michaeldambold @ablackwell89 hi anna, this really made me think of the book cover quizzes 😄