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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 3d

🥺♥️!

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 10d

Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 4d

& I hope you too are as happy as I am now <3

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 4d

It was a brilliant talk & we were a lucky audience 🫶

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 4d

Had a good time talking about Nancy Garden's ANNIE ON MY MIND as part of our Banned Books in Conversation series last week, covering: lesbian love stories with happy endings, proto-queer YA, new PEN America data, Mahmoud v. Taylor, recent developments in Texas, Lori the Librarian, soft censorship,

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 6d

Thrilled that my chapter on digital poetry is out in The Handbook of Poetic Forms! It’s in great company, and I’m humbled to have been invited to contribute. Huge congrats to the editors, who’ve done a majestic job.

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Julia Faisst @juliafaisst.bsky.social · 8d

Academy in Exile invites humanities/social sciences/law scholars at risk from any country - because of their academic work and/or civic engagement in human rights, democracy, and the pursuit of academic freedom - to apply for 12-month fellowships at @tu-dortmund.de and @kwi-essen.bsky.social.

Academy in Exile

www.academy-in-exile.eu

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 9d

This morning’s reading had me lol.

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 10d

Preparing for tomorrow‘s class and thinking about bringing these three images to my students alongside Berlant & Warner‘s „Sex in Public“. I am curious to see what will unfold in the room.

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 13d

Jaa!!! ♥️

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 13d

Beautiful!

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 15d

hello! I wanted to let you know that there is now a *second edition* of our Seized Books! catalogue, after @gaystheword.bsky.social put the first edition on their Insta and it promptly sold out

huge thanks to PageMasters for funding & producing it so beautifully

www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-...

Seized Books!

LGBTQ+ books and censorship in 1980s Britain: A catalogue' describes the publications that were wrongly confiscated from the UK's first lesbian and gay bookshop, Gay's the Word, by Her Majesty's Custo...

www.pagemasters.co

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 14d

Welcome to Bluesky, COPAS!

Please give the account a share, repost, etc. <3

COPAS @copasjournal.bsky.social · 14d

New Issue Out Now! | COPAS Vol. 26 No. 1 (2025)

With our first post on Bluesky, we’re excited to announce the release of the newest issue of COPAS, guest edited by Chiona Hufnagel, Arunima Kundu, Lisa Seuberth & Ruxandra Teodorescu.

Read it here: copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/co...

Vol. 26 No. 1 (2025) | Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies

copas.uni-regensburg.de

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 25d

Woke up today wondering what Sianne Ngai might be up to these days…

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Tropical Cyclone Noreen (1968) @noreenmasud.bsky.social · Aug 25

not now London Review of Books

email from London Review of books with subject line 'what is an emotion'

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · Aug 11

Writing my dissertation: oscillating between “I should rewatch the entire Lars von Trier filmography to fully feel something” and “Maybe Gilmore Girls will heal me.”

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · Jul 29

Making a CLEAN, SHAREABLE dataset is fucking hard! I'm super proud, then, to publish this one, on a team led by @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, with @post45data.bsky.social. It has more than a decade of 21C int'l bestseller data, revealing how popular world lit circulates....

Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · Jul 29

New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.

Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉

🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · Aug 2

There are a number of literary examples too, esp in the 21st-century lit. Earlier examples could also be relevant in the context of courtship, suitorship, etc. This is to say, I guess: whatever you include, it would be a fun class! I will try not to get excited on your behalf 😂

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · Aug 2

Ooo - yes! & also, YES!

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · Aug 2

Saw this yesterday, & loved the strange depiction of the dating economy.

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · Jul 20

Clicked the link to read and... well... can't say I'm surprised.

women: *publishing 50.45% of books*
men: *publishing 49.55% of books*
crying man: i am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?

oh, and according to the author interviewed here, the worst thing for a man to do is...write genre

Screenshot of the article in the quote post. The text:

Is this the death of the male novelist? The lonely life of a man writing fiction in 2025
A long-overdue shift to female perspectives means male authors are being sidelined, or so says the founder of Conduit Books, a new publishing house that trades only in novels written by men. Nick Duerden investigates

There is bust portrait of a white man wearing glasses beneath the text.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · Jul 20

Amid all the idiot chatter about men and reading, men and writing, some of the best books I've read lately are by men about masculinity, and instead of baseless whingeing, we could be talking about these:

Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins
Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection
Andrew Lipstein, Something Rotten

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · Jul 15

REPETITION:
Looking for literary examples (21st c. American) of repetition. Also interested in knowing more theoretical works that are not the usual suspects directly coming to mind.

(Today, I miss my academic Twitter)

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · Jul 4

Oh, I wish I was!!!

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · Feb 21

😍!

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Dec 10

close reading archive launch!

“surveys sundry print, archival, and digital resources, concentrating on Anglo-American literary studies that overtly reflect upon the practice of “close reading””

www.closereadingarchive.org/acknowledgme...

Acknowledgments — Close Reading Archive

www.closereadingarchive.org

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