Catch the ever insightful @marissafenley.bsky.social take stock of contemporary Chicago theatre scene and what it might take to overthrow realism’s tyranny

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it’s delightful to be receiving this book when i’m wrestling with another essay about close reading because opening to virtually any page of this book and reading some or all of is a guaranteed win, clarifying and inspiring!

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“I am no less committed to resisting, but without the belief that history is on my side. It’s a form of stubborn resistance that is the legacy of my father.” I cried several times reading this. Who you’re now is who you will be on the other side of this.

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I’ve taken to blaming it on these new hills.

For MTC, Ruari Paterson-Achenbach revisits this peculiar cultural artifact and what its "recession-fueled dreams of gluttony" can teach us about present day meat-oriented masculinity.

oh, i’m only well versed in adding minutes.

MTC has partnered with Chicago Review for a pitch workshop on October 9 @ 6pm ET. Want to try your hands in public writing, not sure how to approach editors, how to pitch your idea? Join us for a discussion of our respective processes as well as general conversations about best practices.

I’d love to, Nina!! Will message you 💕

i love how the first search result is, please stop asking this question.

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me editing a UK writer and telling them to put periods inside the quotation: sorry, our style guide says so.

me being edited by a UK publication that puts my periods outside the quotation: WHEN WILL THE IMPERIALISM END?!?

Don't miss the first of this semester's New Faculty Voices Q&A series! This semester we were delighted to welcome Professor Farah Bakaari to UC Berkeley English. A scholar of 20th and 21st Century African Literature, you can learn more about her and her work in our Q&A - link in bio!

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i know teaching is being rapidly criminalized in this country but it’s life affirming when a class session goes so well and when students on their own arrive and without using its name arrive at dialectical materialism.

“…children’s liberation from adult domination remains as urgent today as it was in 1933. Children continue to be harmed in all the institutions…meant to ‘protect’ them.” i felt so many unnameable emotions reading this piece for my own boarding school self, for all kids enduring tyranny everywhere!

For the first installment of our "Hold Up" feature, Sophia Marie Niang revisits Jean Vigo’s 1933 film ZERO FOR CONDUCT and what teaches us about the rebellious lives of children and the possibilities of forging comradely solidarity with them.
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there’s being an underdog and then there’s bulldozing bridges that are too big for you. oh my beloved lynx can’t lose like this. #WNBA

I almost only listen to leftist baseball podcasts but that’s just me. So many thanks to @alixbeeston.bsky.social and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for letting me talk about Downtime. Alix is the best reader and not surprisingly the best here too. Book is available from @columbiaup.bsky.social.

MTC first reading group on the award-winning translated stories HEART LAMP by Banu Mushtaq will take place tomorrow Sept. 18 at 5pm ET. Sign up here:
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crazy game. i only caught the second half but it’s hard won