Oliver Bedard

"I know less and less about who I am, or who anybody else is." Managing Editor, Eighteenth-Century Studies; Ph.D. Candidate, UBC; Romanticism and the Gothic

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

The key to Anora: lots of dialogue, saying little.

[Weird Friction @Weird_Friction]

Today's snail-infested book-mail. 🐌

[Edgar Poe @EdgarPoe180949]

Patricia Highsmith 1/19/1921-2/4/1995
Died 25 years ago.
Casa Highsmith, Tegna/Switzerland, on 3/11/1995, the day of the funeral.
Gone, but not forgotten.
#OTD

[Oliver Bedard @ocbedard]

Pleased to announce the publication of my article, "'Whichever Way You Move . . . It is Ready to Swallow You': The Gothic Atlantic and the Mobile Oubliette," in the current issue of Studies in Romanticism! Open Access: https://t.co/y9YXB6iKOg

[Fraser Easton @fraser_easton]

Announcing "Christopher Smart Now"

Guest edited by @fraser_easton and Ian Balfour, this roundtable (in Eighteenth-Century Studies 57.4 Summer 2024), includes a new essay on Smart by Geoffrey Hartman and contributions from Jayne Lewis, Kevis Goodman, & Ian Balfour, among others:

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

Happy eightieth birthday to Jean-Pierre Léaud, from whom I learned writing in cafés and talking.

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

Alice in the Cities, founding a style and finding himself in it; three great films resulted; at @Metrograph at 6:45
https://t.co/uuq9CMiigh
https://t.co/6gUl69OwIT

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

People have strong, divergent opinions about the continuity of their own selves. Are you the same person you used to be? Or have you changed? https://t.co/XcHQZ5c8Sd

[Oliver Bedard @ocbedard]

@JoyceCarolOates Moby-Dick and Pierre have many affinities, too, and I like them as companion novels: both concern sublime masculine failure + the ramifications of impossible ideals, but while the former is deep blue oceanic (of course), the latter is earthy, obsessed with land and decay.

[Oliver Bedard @ocbedard]

@JoyceCarolOates I love Pierre for its outré Gothic characterization + psychologically embedded anti-colonialism through the corruption of the protagonist’s patriarchal genealogy.

[Oliver Bedard @ocbedard]

Poster courtesy of @theCinematheque ; the best screening experiences I’ve had all summer. #JeanEustache #LaMamanetlaPutain #JeanPierreLéaud #BernadetteLafont #FrançoiseLebrun

[Oliver Bedard @ocbedard]

Dear Wayne: We are listening.

Speak No Evil (Remastered 1998 / Rudy Van Gelder Edition) https://t.co/ITygiNLO0e via @YouTube

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

In memory and honor of Wayne Shorter, one of the greatest yet more elusive innovators of jazz—a spiritual modernist: https://t.co/X3CRbrx2i3

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

A word from a while back on the ethics and the aesthetics of Godard's Le Petit Soldat, playing in a couple of minutes on @tcm
https://t.co/nMxXWt9MIe

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

I wish I never had cause to write in memory of Jean-Luc Godard, whose work is the most crucial in the modern cinema—past, present, and, yes, future—and to me:
https://t.co/hmrz52zzPj

[The New York Times @nytimes]

In Opinion

"We should not romanticize her era," writes Maya Jasanoff, a professor of history at Harvard, in a guest essay. "The queen helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged." https://t.co/3UIf76SriF

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

false prophets, france, 11th century

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

Frantz Fanon was a movie lover—“cinephile” is too fastidious a term for someone who loved popular films and complaining about them. A friend recalled feeling tricked into seeing a terrible movie after Fanon assured him it was a “wonderful American musical” https://t.co/MI79dGMuZG

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

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