Ryan Lackey

PhD candidate at UC Berkeley. He/him. Criticism and fiction here and there. I like some novels, most cats.

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

telling myself it's okay if Arsenal lose the champions league final tomorrow because it's publication day today

many thanks to Yannicke Chupin and Karim Daanoune for all their work putting this collection (and, years ago, an excellent conference) together

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

@MitchTherieau You and me both, Mitch!

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

folks i have finally made the big pivot to audio

come listen to me talk about infinite jest and obama-era optimism and maybe even a little about my evangelical childhood with the incomparable billy lennon for the CRB

[Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks]

the crb podcast is back...@podracing_champ talks with @rlackey15 about his recent piece on the cultural history of Infinite Jest's forewords. listen on spotify, apple podcasts etc.
https://t.co/1v1k8USN2l

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

the first issue of @Miscjournal is here!
some extremely exciting work from guggenheim fellows, o henry prize winners, and people i play soccer with

please order our *very nice* print issues here so we can keep doing this: https://t.co/IUcPK5asme

and spread the word!!!

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

@stevenwatts Eagleton remains undefeated

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

my only thought on the discourse today is that when I came to Berkeley I made $32k/year and I simultaneously felt like I’d won the lottery and also I was immediately ready to agitate for a decent wage

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

@matthiasellis @aliner omg Matt this is amazing

congrats!!!!!!

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

@matthiasellis @mcmansionhell god so envious i wish i'd been there

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

@matthiasellis totally! it’s less an imprecision or the kind of everyday getting-lost in the thickets of your own syntax than, like, an associative cloud whose meaning is supposed to appear in the negative space

[Miscellany @Miscjournal]

HUGE congratulations to newly named Guggenheim fellows Lucy Ives and Aspen Mays, and to Catherine Lacey, winner of an O. Henry Prize—we’re honored to have their work in our inaugural issue!

Preorder: https://t.co/VTjGi7uxQF

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

for the incomparable @clereviewbooks i got to write about infinite jest’s three forewords encoding changes to literary culture: how we talk about Wallace, his novel, and what we expect from them

huge thanks to michael for the excellent edits

https://t.co/Zho7gJP1j2

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

hot damn oh yes

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

@MitchTherieau wild

you should be first on everybody’s list

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

@stevenwatts I would also like to hear more about that thing I just said without having to actually turn vague impulses into real thoughts in language lol

maybe something to write about

one day

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

@stevenwatts I can get behind the LK take

I wanna say there’s more to Cartarescu

That there’s some real wrestling with the psychic ghosts of the 20th century and a laying-bare of something true about the contemporary feelings of impasse

But maybe I just like him better lol

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

excellent news: the NYRB has reissued Coover’s baseball novel

which means (LARB controversy aside) I can engage in some shameless self-promotion

and recirculate this (written before coming to Berkeley, even, god, that’s so long ago)

https://t.co/zhpzDRuDkY

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

this thread is at once an excellent overview of what miscellany wants to be, a sharp reading of Lee’s work, and a significant piece of personal writing in its own right

[Niles H. Frasier @MTisempty]

Today, @Miscjournal is publishing @TheGloryFires poem "Biscuit," a little taste of the three (!!!) Lee poems in the print issue. I am unbelievably excited, and super proud to put these out there. To explain why I'm so jubilant, some background (1/many)
https://t.co/3QjcLEMvyA

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

so @Miscjournal goes to print this week

and in celebration we have a poem online from the incomparable Lee Bains

please read and, while you're there, order issue one

https://t.co/a3TfXsc1A6

[Ryan Lackey @rlackey15]

just had my first 10/10 day this is literally my greatest-ever achievement

https://t.co/AqZT6vEJfA
#614 - 10/10 🎉
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