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Sheila Liming

@seeshespeak.bsky.social

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reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator Champlain College (Burlington, VT) HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · Mar 25

I wrote about the history of Wharton film adaptations (and why we haven’t had a decent one of those in 25 years!) for Film Quarterly

Screenshot of a pdf with text and a sepia-toned photo of a woman (Edith Wharton) c. 1900 wearing a fancy dress and fur muff

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 14h

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah it’s STUPID

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

(Sorry.)

Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

He told me the story of his promotion 30 years ago, where he was asked by admin, “What rank do you want?” after teaching at the college for several years.

He replied “senior” and someone wrote it on a form and then he was a full professor and has been ever since (2). 😬

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

I’m applying for promotion and asked a senior colleague (who I really admire) if he’d write one of the 7 letters required for my portfolio … (1)

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

Same. I hope they’re keeping warm and hydrating there in that Submittable queue.

Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 2d

I love it when writers submitting to NDQ email me and are like “it’s been 2 months and I haven’t heard anything …”

Like, bruh, have you submitted to a literary journal before or what?

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 2d

ANYTHING by Chris Kraus

Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 4d

For just once, I like a “time-saving” piece of technological innovation to actually save me time instead of stealing more of it away from me.

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 4d

a new Chris Kraus book > a new Pynchon book

And I say this as someone who enjoys the heck out of Pynchon.

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 4d

See Laura Miller's 2009 "The Rise and Not-Quite Fall of the American Book Wholesaler"

Of the Big Three distributors described in Miller's article, only Ingram remains. (Advanced Marketing Services was acquired by Baker & Taylor in 2007.)

doi.org/10.1207/S153...

The Rise and Not-Quite Fall of the American Book Wholesaler

This article uses historical and interview data to examine the transformation of the wholesale sector in the American book industry. In contrast to the dominant pattern in other consumer goods indu...

doi.org

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 4d

About once a year, I get a request for a bagpipe gig that is so bizarre sounding, I wonder if I will live to tell the tale of it later on.

Anyway, it just happened again and of course I said ‘yes.’

Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 5d

True, but it might be interesting to see how that argument develops different you out of geography as a field

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 5d

Looks pretty freaking fire

Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · Aug 7

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 5d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 5d

Greta Thunberg rules. Incredibly brave, righteous leadership and clarity, at an age when my main hobby was smoking weed.

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 5d

You might!

Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 5d

“So far in 2025, every major sector from utilities and industrials to healthcare and banks has fared better in the rest of the world than in the US … AI better deliver for the US, or its economy and markets will lose the one leg they are now standing on.” 🙃

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 6d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 5d

I would totally befriend a horse named Ian.

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 5d

Unclear. Gonna have to get back to you on that one.

Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 5d

Relatable.

Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 5d

Was excited that the book I’m reading has a character named Sheila, but then it turned out to be a horse.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 6d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 6d

Yay! Super cool!

Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 6d

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Left, a view of blue sky and trees sporting fall foliage; right, view from a high mountain summit showing valleys flush with fall foliage and distant mountain peaks