Very pleased to be featured in The Millions fall book preview!

David Walker published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in pamphlet form in 1829. It's one of the most important and influential abolitionist texts in U.S. history. Yet, very few people have actually read it and many people don't know who Walker was especially among young people.

And I answered her: Rejoice, go and remember me. For you know how we cherished you. -Anne Carson If Not, Winter Fragments of Sappho

never the wrong time for this classic

Wonderful list of short novels with super-pithy descriptions

atoms aren't round, 2026

*clears throat* “This is an original study that will appeal not just to scholars of German literature but to any reader interested in understanding how the modern publishing world came to be.” I love this book. Affect studies! Media studies! Formalism! The material conditions of production!

I need to give this one another go.

Back in my home country for a while. From The October Country by Ray Bradbury, 1955.

Friends if you find yourself near Northfield on Thursday November 5 and would like to see me read and discuss my book details are below.

Been re-reading this over the past few months now today I say goodbye. Farewell, Hans Castorp, though I'm sure I'll see you again. Farewell.

"It was his way of honoring the stroll by the shore, the abiding ever-and-always, the hermetic magic, to which, once withdrawn from the world, he had proved so susceptible..." -Thomas Mann (tr. John E. Woods)

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To be clear I would be fine with either movie and I trust you are working to make these reality.

Arthur don’t ya know it