Ted Chiang’s “The Life Cycle of Software Objects” works very well. Not sure if it’s long enough for you though…

To be fair, this situation could become a lot more common if Elon’s candidates win and we cut taxes and stop all investment in infrastructure

It’s a Wonderful Life for Tax Reasons (or maybe Mr. Smith Goes to Washington for Tax Reasons?)

Best formalist accounts/theories of the short story, everyone? My impression is that it’s very undertheorized compared to the novel, but it’s not really my area…

This looks like something Wile E. Coyote would paint on the wall if he were trying to catch MAGA instead of the Roadrunner

Thank you!

Best formalist accounts/theories of the short story, everyone? My impression is that it’s very undertheorized compared to the novel, but it’s not really my area…

Today's "help me backfill the English degree I never got" request: favorite readings on form? Been picking through Caroline Levine's book again and need to branch out/backwards some

Any particular forms you’re hoping to zero in on?

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

So grateful for this lovely review of The Ecological Plot! “One of the book’s most sparkling features is the way it unites scholarly rigor with a generous and winning conversational voice….Miller has written a book that genuinely delivers on its ambitions to speak beyond its field.”

This IS the call, Eleanor. The CALL for PAPERS

The intimacy of the small gathering is great! It was intimidating at the time but that was totally a product of my own headspace…a very welcoming group in my experience.

No, not invite only!! But a very small conference and so (inevitably) harder to get into than most. But worth it! My first paper was at a NVSA. Definitely got rejected from subsequent ones…

Victorianists! The CFP for NVSA 2027 on “Trash” has been extended one week to Thursday, October 22! Please share and submit!!

That headline is off by three decimal places?!

Picked up a book about the Salem witch trials… written by Shirley Jackson(!) in 1956.