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Intelligent cultural criticism and literary analysis intended for the reading public.
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@ellenpcampbell.bsky.socialReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialHonored to have Jack-El Hai's note this & thanks to @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social!
@snarlsdickens.bsky.socialReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialMy little contribution to ongoing debates over weird fiction is now up at @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social! In it I try to explain why we fight about what counts as weird fiction, giving some deeper historical context for disputes over the term and a sense of what the stakes of those debates might be.
@hillnadell.bsky.socialReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialThank you @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social for this excellent review of THE VIOLENCE by @aeramirez.bsky.social!
@jackelhai.bsky.socialReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialToday's #history article pick from Damn History, my free newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to
writer @ellenpcampbell.bsky.social & @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social!
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@pageonem.bsky.socialReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social"I call those feelings bolting urges." Malavika Kannan's new excerpt in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social names something so many of us feel and never have the words for. Wildfire smoke, a missed birthday call home, and the urge to disappear.
Go read it. https://page1m.co/4hrCEjG
@bittelmethis.bsky.socialReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialI got to interview @maryroach.bsky.social recently for @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social, and in anticipation of her upcoming Replaceable You appearance in #Pittsburgh.
We talked Iron Lungs, the medical utility of frog legs, & advice for new/young writers. Enjoy! š§Ŗ
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@charlesomalley.bsky.socialReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialfantastic piece in the @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social on SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET (@wwnorton.com)!
pghrev.com/the-once-and... @scottwstern.bsky.social
@jameygallagher.bsky.socialReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialSometimes a piece of writing surprises you. This one surprised me. Maybe you'll like it?
āI am thinking about people and birds and words and books and magic.ā
Thanks to Ed Simon and @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social for publishing it.
@jodydiperna.bsky.socialReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialSome thoughts on the death of Annie Dillard and what her work meant for us, just up at Pittsburgh Review of Books.
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@andrewcareaga.bsky.socialReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialGrateful to @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social for publishing my tiny essay āSecondhand Guitarā today! #writingcommunity pghrev.com/secondhand-g...
@gbarnhisel.bsky.socialReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialThanks @americanstudier.bsky.social for including my @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social interview w Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil about their #sylviaplath anthology in his #scholarsunday thread. #poetry
@cmuenglish.bsky.socialReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social@pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social partners with a number of literary organizations, including @pghartslectures.bsky.social, publishing an interview with each author included in their Ten Evenings series.
Read Dept. Head Chris Warren's conversation with George Saunders here: pghrev.com/talking-abou...
@bcdreyer.socialReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialHey hey, I got republished by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social:
@gbarnhisel.bsky.socialReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialIām grateful that textual editor extraordinaire Amanda Golden and her co-editor Karen Kukil were willing to sit down with me for a @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social interview about their groundbreaking new complete anthology of Sylvia Plathās poems. pghrev.com/fifteen-year...
@chriswarren.infoReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social1/ If you'll indulge me, I want to take a second to crow about something I'm really proud to've fostered as Head of Carnegie Mellon Department of English: The Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social.
@pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialThe Pittsburgh Review of Books is excited to announce the inaugural season for a new program of public engagement to be run by the magazine that will be known as the Steel City Institute for Social Research. pghrev.com/introducing-...
@jodydiperna.bsky.socialReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialIām still thinking about Dolly. Some thoughts on Dolly Parton, mutual aid, Appalachian kinship and my mom in the Pgh Review of Books.
@pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialWeāre back! as we enter our second year of publication, meet our new cohort of editors and check out a bumper crop of new pieces today. pghrev.com/introducing-...
@gbarnhisel.bsky.socialReposted by @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialWhy did the loan of a few of Gertrude Stein's manuscripts to the Yale Libraries change literary study? I tackle this question, and share some of the treasures I found this summer at the Beinecke Library, in my latest piece for the @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social pghrev.com/the-making-o...
@pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialāBut LLMs are not Shakespeare (yet) and thereās no rhetorical reason for it and worse, thereās no limiting function, which is why you can get 'not x but y' every other paragraph.ā āHollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social pghrev.com/metannoying/
