Pam Thurschwell
@pamthur.bsky.social
I'm going back to New York City; I do believe I've had enough. Also recently wrote a book, Teenage Time (Bloomsbury 2025).
Cambridge folk, I am giving a talk on Tuesday 18th Nov, 5 pm, at the English Faculty 9 West Road called "Destructive Characters: Graham Greene to the KLF". There will be Walter Benjamin plus film clips! Come along if you are so inclined; I understand there will be wine.
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Cambridge folk, I am giving a talk on Tuesday 18th Nov, 5 pm, at the English Faculty 9 West Road called "Destructive Characters: Graham Greene to the KLF". There will be Walter Benjamin plus film clips! Come along if you are so inclined; I understand there will be wine.
What are they going to do, rename the West Wing "The Wing"? On the plus side, we all have a front row seat for primitive accumulation and destruction in action. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
What are they going to do, rename the West Wing "The Wing"? On the plus side, we all have a front row seat for primitive accumulation and destruction in action. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
I enjoyed One Battle After Another but given the choice I would definitely hire the characters in Andor to do my revolution.
September 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I enjoyed One Battle After Another but given the choice I would definitely hire the characters in Andor to do my revolution.
I'm praying for a social media that is nothing but pictures of the young Robert Redford from now on. Is that too much to ask?
September 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I'm praying for a social media that is nothing but pictures of the young Robert Redford from now on. Is that too much to ask?
Yay! Bloomsbury put a sample up online. Here it is!
New for your library: ‘Teenage Time’ by @pamthur.bsky.social
Discover how the teenager, as they has been perceived since the 1940s, have shaped the temporal imaginary of the 20th and 21st century literature.
📖 Read a sample: bit.ly/4m33waB
📘 More info: bit.ly/45nJBfn
Discover how the teenager, as they has been perceived since the 1940s, have shaped the temporal imaginary of the 20th and 21st century literature.
📖 Read a sample: bit.ly/4m33waB
📘 More info: bit.ly/45nJBfn
August 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Yay! Bloomsbury put a sample up online. Here it is!
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married, and together they will save the Arts and Humanities and rid the world of AI!”
August 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married, and together they will save the Arts and Humanities and rid the world of AI!”
Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025 - Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.
www.bloomsbury.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
My book Teenage Time comes out August 21st from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teenage-t... Here it is!
July 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
My book Teenage Time comes out August 21st from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teenage-t... Here it is!
People of Sussex and beyond, get yourself to Sussex English’s own Hope Wolf’s fantastic Sussex Modernism exhibit at the Towner in Eastbourne. So so good!
May 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
People of Sussex and beyond, get yourself to Sussex English’s own Hope Wolf’s fantastic Sussex Modernism exhibit at the Towner in Eastbourne. So so good!
The Gluten Free Pasta will Never Be Eaten
make an observation about your pantry that also sounds like the title of a novel: WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE BEANS
May 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The Gluten Free Pasta will Never Be Eaten
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I realize I’m not Catholic & this is all none of my business, but like most Jewish girls, I thought the Vatican Rag was amazing & I’ve occasionally imagined going to confession because it seemed like an offbeat way to get therapy
May 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I realize I’m not Catholic & this is all none of my business, but like most Jewish girls, I thought the Vatican Rag was amazing & I’ve occasionally imagined going to confession because it seemed like an offbeat way to get therapy
Hey new Pope! Remember your Villanova University roots, and use your papal dispensation to keep the Paoli/Thorndale Line running. #PaoliLocal #MaybetooLocal whyy.org/articles/sep...
What would SEPTA cuts mean for Philadelphia’s suburbs?
The potential elimination of SEPTA’s Paoli/Thorndale regional rail line sparked fury among Chester County legislators.
whyy.org
May 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Hey new Pope! Remember your Villanova University roots, and use your papal dispensation to keep the Paoli/Thorndale Line running. #PaoliLocal #MaybetooLocal whyy.org/articles/sep...
Do we get to say “No pope, radio”?
May 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Do we get to say “No pope, radio”?
Add a tariff and ruin a movie.
Tax Driver
Tax Driver
Add a tariff and ruin a movie
Vatman Returns.
Vatman Returns.
Add a tariff and ruin a movie
Excise through the gift shop
Excise through the gift shop
May 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Add a tariff and ruin a movie.
Tax Driver
Tax Driver
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Ah god dammit. Joshua Clover wrote about both people and music as if he loved them so much he couldn’t bear it, & indeed he really did love them like this, to the joy of those he knew & shaped, & to the consternation of those who loved either less. What a loss. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/11...
Roadrunning: Joshua Clover in Conversation with Alex Abramovich
November 10, 2021 – Emails about rock ’n’ roll freedom, American capitalism, and automobiles.
www.theparisreview.org
April 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Ah god dammit. Joshua Clover wrote about both people and music as if he loved them so much he couldn’t bear it, & indeed he really did love them like this, to the joy of those he knew & shaped, & to the consternation of those who loved either less. What a loss. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/11...
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Goodbye Joshua Clover, critic and poet, a singular brilliance who made good trouble. (And maybe a little of the bad kind.) The world shrinks and grows duller immediately with this shocking news. I feel lucky I knew you, and ache for those who knew you better. And who the fuck *is Mick Jagger?
April 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Goodbye Joshua Clover, critic and poet, a singular brilliance who made good trouble. (And maybe a little of the bad kind.) The world shrinks and grows duller immediately with this shocking news. I feel lucky I knew you, and ache for those who knew you better. And who the fuck *is Mick Jagger?
Here for the giant curlew news: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Man sets off on Nidderdale walk dressed as a curlew
Matt Trevelyan made the Eurasian curlew costume out of polystyrene and bamboo.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Here for the giant curlew news: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
April 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
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British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding
Why is the government and the news so indifferent to the meltdown happening in UK #HigherEd right now?
Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.
Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.
The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
April 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding
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imagine laws, but for rich people.
March 31, 2025 at 3:36 AM
imagine laws, but for rich people.
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this is the real university
A crowd has gathered for the NYC protest against the illegal ICE arrest of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. Protesters are chanting and calling for his immediate release.
Multiple helicopters overhead.
Multiple helicopters overhead.
March 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
this is the real university
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A federal judge in NY has blocked any effort by the Trump administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil – whose arrest and imminent deportation Trump celebrated on Turth Social today — until further proceedings play out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A federal judge in NY has blocked any effort by the Trump administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil – whose arrest and imminent deportation Trump celebrated on Turth Social today — until further proceedings play out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...