Jesse Raber

Author, *Progressivism's Aesthetic Education*: --- Chicago Writing gallery at @AWMuseum -- teaching -- working on a book about Chicago

[Jesse Raber @jraber]

Hello academic twitter – it’s time for some belated self-promotion for *Progressivism’s Aesthetic Education*. Please read on if you’re interested in the bildungsroman, the history of American schooling, pragmatist aesthetics, or Progressive Era US literature.

[Jesse Raber @jraber]

@melnickjeffrey1 @MatthewSitman Yes the duet albums are all great. I love how he and Waylon Jennings made one album called "Waylon and Willie" and another one called ... "WWII"

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@blagojevism @biomanzilla Just today, in Chicago, an Austrian immigrant told me to go to Milwaukee to practice my German

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@kevinbaker moldbug you kind of "have to hand it to" in a way that you absolutely do not have to hand it to vance

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@morganbenjamin If this can be a long C19 question, this has some neat stuff: https://t.co/rx90s3hDs1

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We've been doing poetry on 7/4 for years now and have exhausted all the beautiful trenchant statements. Gotta get into the weird shit now, like this Sherwood Anderson poem about the US entering WWI.

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As our family gets deeper and deeper into our classic Hollywood musicals phase, the risk of being surprised by a fifteen-minute Busby Berkeley blackface number seems to grow exponentially

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@duckbldg Your audience has a finite attention span and they won't notice the imperfections. They'll be glad to have what you can give them, and glad you're now making time to start the next cool project. Nobody's got time to worshipfully meditate upon a perfect thing.

[Jesse Raber @jraber]

Instead of watching the debate I got sucked into a conversation with an acquaintance who worked on prep cooking for the food in The Bear. Most TV food is fake, but they use real Kobe beef and stuff on The Bear! Also I gather that this country is fucked!

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(for non-locals, protesters dyed the fountain red last night)

[Colin Hinkle @hinklecolin]

Bloody Buckingham Fountain this morning

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Signs of summer part 2: first Divvy bike thrown in the lake

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This van in the Promontory Point parking lot just got totally destroyed by fireworks going off in the back seat. Summer is here!

[Midwest Antiquarian @Eric_Erins]

In 1899 Lorado Taft unveiled his Nymph Fountain just south of the Art Institute. Made of plaster, but intended to be cast in bronze for a permanent installation. But it was too sexy, and Chicago's citizens destroyed it, mutilating every single Nymph. https://t.co/l3E51Eijqf

[Asaf Elia-Shalev @AsafShaloo]

NEW: Wikipedia editors declare the ADL "unreliable" and ban the use of the ADL as a source on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A ban on the ADL as a source on antisemitism expected next. https://t.co/HFjNUdCrn4

[Jesse Raber @jraber]

TIL: George Herbert Walker Bush was named after George Herbert, the 17th century poet. Ergo the George in George W. Bush is also the George in George Herbert.

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This is the dawning of the Age of Asparagus...

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@RezekJoe sorry to every other musical but it's Singin' in the Rain

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@LEEBEY @musicboxtheatre @jfreewright Prickly Black intellectuals on rustic retreats ... another in the category might be Ganja and Hess. American Fiction halfway between Losing Ground's tender realism and G&H's over-the-top surrealist satire.

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P.S. - this would make a lovely belated Mother's Day or early Father's Day gift for the old Chicago head who has it all ...

[Jesse Raber @jraber]

I'm offering another summer course on early Chicago literature, this time through StoryStudio! In collaboration with the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.

We do need to hit our enrollment target to run the course, so please spread the word.

Details below ...

[Jesse Raber @jraber]

... did you know that Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton agency, wrote crime fiction? That the Haymarket anarchists published poetry, in English and German? That there was a bestselling novel about the Great Chicago Fire?

We'll cover these topics in this six week course.