Michael Docherty

Assistant Professor of English, Appalachian State University | singer-songwriter | a secret, cooler, third thing

[Michael Docherty @maybeavalon]

My first book, The Recursive Frontier, technically came out (from @SUNYPress) last week, but I delayed posting about until my author copies arrived so I could do an obligatory unboxing photo. It's (mostly) a multiethnic literary history of Los Angeles between the '30s and '50s.

[Michael Docherty @maybeavalon]

@JorisBinsAgain Sorry, Elon is paying me big money to keep my posts exclusive to X, the everything app

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If I had to use a nasal band to improve my tennis performance, I’d probably go with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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@worgztheowl More of an Oasis man, eh?

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@aspirationalbob I'd like to confirm that I am pro-arse flattering

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I don't think I'm ever going to get used to the cool kids of gen-z dressing like Miles Davis in 1987

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@twlldun "Scythian Kinda Guy" was surely an ill-advised Dean Martin LP on which he sang "songs of the steppes" and posed on the cover in a funny costume

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Becoming an "interested in the Sumerians" guy, this might be my new thing

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@thebeercolonel You know, passive smoking was a huge problem in ancient Sumer, because you were never far from a ziggurat

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@thebeercolonel Ian this is good

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@eleanoir A master at work

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The thing about Nancy Pelosi is that she is to her very core a hater. One of the few truly great haters in contemporary US politics. An LBJ-level hater. I have to respect this.

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Very nice to have my piece on Mike Davis and Malcolm Harris from last year included in this selection of LARB essays

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

@MedayaO @vcwills @brouillettese @dvarimbealma @maybeavalon's review and essay on what Malcolm Harris’s history of Palo Alto owes to Mike Davis’s histories of Los Angeles: https://t.co/e5CfipbOrl

[Michael Docherty @maybeavalon]

@DrDominicDean “Physician, heal thyself!”

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Purely anecdotal but driving around NC over the past month i saw a lot of small signs saying things like “TRUMP low taxes / HARRIS high taxes” and as dishonest as that may be I’m struck by Democrats’ inability to condense and simplify a message, any message, comparably.

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@tillers2214 I’d settle for anarchy at this point

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The best are full of passionate intensity, while the worst are full of passionate intensity

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Car wash token-looking coin

[Carolyn Harris @royalhistorian]

King Charles III on Canadian currency

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JCO remains undefeated; most baffling poster of all time

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These days, you can’t publish children’s fiction by a widely-suspected nonce; the sensitivity readers won’t allow it. These days…