"Made in Eng-ga-land, born & bred,
An 18th-century brain in a 21st-century head."
Literary critic professing at UCLA. Co-founder & editor of @therambling_.
Not even cancer, it turns out, can quash the irrepressible twenty-first-century human drive to generate content. Herewith this essay. I am more grateful than I can express to everybody at Ploughshares, and to Justin Torres, for publishing it. Read it here: https://t.co/d0DowgQ2dd
Give thanks—The Rambling is out! From Lost to Lord of the Rings, reality TV to “succubus chic,” you will not lack for conversation at the dinner table after reading our latest issue, now live at https://t.co/BsUibgAHWd.
For its 50th anniversary, I wrote about Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends. Cities! Haunted houses! Heads growing out of butts! And more…
https://t.co/czT3Ndy2hm
We are holding the first in a series of public marathon-reading events this October 1-2, when we will be reading out loud Edward Said's memoir, Out of Place, alongside other complementary texts on displacement and justice. 9 am October 1 to 9 am October 2, in the Sculpture Garden
My amazing faculty comrades refuse “private” invitation from the UCLA Provost and any back channel discussions. They are 🔥. More here: https://t.co/Yldj0IaHAo
Over 20 faculty and other community members have rallied at the Hammer Museum to call for the resignation of Chancellor Gene Block. A protester said Block was scheduled to attend a gala at the museum tonight but did not appear. The Bruin was unable to verify those claims.
Here is another statement by UCLA faculty, this time from members of the Dept of English condemning the university’s police raid on the student protest encampment & its inaction against violent mobs attacking student protesters.
I'm so excited to have been part of bringing out the latest Rambling, which is chock full of great, thoughtful pieces you should check out...and most especially thrilled for the opportunity to interview @devoneylooser in its pages, which was a dream!
Listen to me talk about Emma (so I don’t have to listen to myself!).
Note that the title of the episode, alas, is not a description of me. https://t.co/x724sOAH04