Ana Schwartz
@peonies.bsky.social
A few years ago, I wrote a history of sincerity (UNC 2023). In my day job, I teach Texan college students about the past.
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The era of the mass market paperback is coming to an end, and that’s not good thing for anyone.
I jotted down some thoughts about the history of the format and why its end isn’t a great sign for the publishing industry: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mass-market-...
I jotted down some thoughts about the history of the format and why its end isn’t a great sign for the publishing industry: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mass-market-...
Stories for the masses
The Mass Market paperback format is ending with a whimper
transfer-orbit.ghost.io
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The era of the mass market paperback is coming to an end, and that’s not good thing for anyone.
I jotted down some thoughts about the history of the format and why its end isn’t a great sign for the publishing industry: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mass-market-...
I jotted down some thoughts about the history of the format and why its end isn’t a great sign for the publishing industry: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mass-market-...
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The Custom Oregon Plate LOGOUT was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #LOGOUT
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The Custom Oregon Plate LOGOUT was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #LOGOUT
My irregular visit to BSKY for December has arrived; I'm here to insist everyone close out their existing tabs and read @johannawinant.bsky.social's latest in the @bostonreview.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
December 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
My irregular visit to BSKY for December has arrived; I'm here to insist everyone close out their existing tabs and read @johannawinant.bsky.social's latest in the @bostonreview.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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For @mid-theory.bsky.social, @johndownesangus.bsky.social wrote about @tomcomitta.bsky.social’s awesome book at @columbiaup.bsky.social! It was so fun to edit this piece!
For MTC, John Downes-Angus reviews Tom Comitta's PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE and reflects on his experiences as a high school English teacher where on the daily he makes a case for reading the strange, the extreme, the unwanted—for the chance to accept "reading’s complicated gift to us."
Unwanted Reading: A Review of Tom Comitta’s ‘People’s Choice Literature’
The Sunday before I taught Beloved last spring, I sat on my couch wondering how I was going to convince a room full of second semester seniors that, before they left high school that June, they sho…
mid-theory.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
For @mid-theory.bsky.social, @johndownesangus.bsky.social wrote about @tomcomitta.bsky.social’s awesome book at @columbiaup.bsky.social! It was so fun to edit this piece!
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Spotify is a distant third among platforms that AV listeners use, but what Wrapped tells me year after year is, I believe, true across all of them: American Vandal grows & grows because listeners share it with their friends.
Thank you.
Thank you.
December 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Spotify is a distant third among platforms that AV listeners use, but what Wrapped tells me year after year is, I believe, true across all of them: American Vandal grows & grows because listeners share it with their friends.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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mckinley strawberries, 1900
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
mckinley strawberries, 1900
The amazing thing I'm reading *right now* and hope you'll read along with me:
I spent a half year overthinking this, and though it's hard to think about anything other than the East Bay's immanent invasion by ICE (may their crops fail and their penises fall off), I'll share it again, a big piece of "what Berkeley means to me": www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/war-is-over-...
War is Over (Because UC Wants it)
A Tale of Two Murals on Telegraph Avenue, Aaron Cometbus's "The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah," and Praising the Emptiness
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The amazing thing I'm reading *right now* and hope you'll read along with me:
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the way I keep excitedly checking if this is out yet & have been since last winter (late November fyi)
October 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
the way I keep excitedly checking if this is out yet & have been since last winter (late November fyi)
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If you liked "S03 E02 | Wives and Their Authors: Elizabeth and Herman Melville, Literary Labor, and Women's Work" back in the day, you should read @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social's essay in the latest issue of @j19journal.bsky.social!
October 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
If you liked "S03 E02 | Wives and Their Authors: Elizabeth and Herman Melville, Literary Labor, and Women's Work" back in the day, you should read @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social's essay in the latest issue of @j19journal.bsky.social!
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Took my show on the road to York & Guelph last week, narrowly & unfortunately missing Guelph’s butter tart festival.
October 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Took my show on the road to York & Guelph last week, narrowly & unfortunately missing Guelph’s butter tart festival.
Every now and then I pop on here and get lucky enough to drop through a dream portal into the @ranchogordo.bsky.social kitchen
More Breakfasts of Champions: Puglia lentils with a searingly hot chipotle tomato salsa and some leftover rotisserie chicken. Is that a dab (plop) of Bellweather Farms crème fraîche? Why, it certainly is and it was certainly delicious.
#heirloombeans #beansky #savorybreakfast #lentils
#heirloombeans #beansky #savorybreakfast #lentils
September 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Every now and then I pop on here and get lucky enough to drop through a dream portal into the @ranchogordo.bsky.social kitchen
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The art is pouring in to our DMs! Huge thanks to @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social for bringing Angela Smyth’s amazing whale to our attention!
We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.
We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.
September 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The art is pouring in to our DMs! Huge thanks to @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social for bringing Angela Smyth’s amazing whale to our attention!
We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.
We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.
Popped back in here to plug @christinegrillo.bsky.social’s new and, like, astonishingly good single-millennial civil-war novel the same week @mattseybold.bsky.social’s bonus coda ep drops. Your assigned weekend reading and listening!
September 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Popped back in here to plug @christinegrillo.bsky.social’s new and, like, astonishingly good single-millennial civil-war novel the same week @mattseybold.bsky.social’s bonus coda ep drops. Your assigned weekend reading and listening!
Posting a selfie to catch your attention and to boost @thedial2024.bsky.social’s new issue, which is…really good?! The essays on the state of the uni by @jennifergreiman.bsky.social and @samcohen.bsky.social and @cnewf.bsky.social, among others, are so well written and incisive.
September 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Posting a selfie to catch your attention and to boost @thedial2024.bsky.social’s new issue, which is…really good?! The essays on the state of the uni by @jennifergreiman.bsky.social and @samcohen.bsky.social and @cnewf.bsky.social, among others, are so well written and incisive.
Bye, weird floral chupa chups of Chicago! 👋
June 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Bye, weird floral chupa chups of Chicago! 👋
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OK but who else is on their way to South Bend rn?
@ them in the comments 👇👇👇for a chance to win a free drink ticket at the McKenna center bar 🍹 🎟️
@ them in the comments 👇👇👇for a chance to win a free drink ticket at the McKenna center bar 🍹 🎟️
June 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
OK but who else is on their way to South Bend rn?
@ them in the comments 👇👇👇for a chance to win a free drink ticket at the McKenna center bar 🍹 🎟️
@ them in the comments 👇👇👇for a chance to win a free drink ticket at the McKenna center bar 🍹 🎟️
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Today I'm sharing my own contributions to the Society of Early Americanists joint fundraiser - my prints focus respectively on Indigenous history and activism, attacks on people and institutions that care about books, and the works of Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson #letterpress #earlyAmerica
May 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Today I'm sharing my own contributions to the Society of Early Americanists joint fundraiser - my prints focus respectively on Indigenous history and activism, attacks on people and institutions that care about books, and the works of Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson #letterpress #earlyAmerica
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one thought in closing. no matter what other lessons we take from the last few weeks and the next, we should all agree on this one: things can always get goofier
February 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
one thought in closing. no matter what other lessons we take from the last few weeks and the next, we should all agree on this one: things can always get goofier
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I mean, I always think the most recent episode is the best episode.
But this one goes so hard.
But this one goes so hard.
April 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I mean, I always think the most recent episode is the best episode.
But this one goes so hard.
But this one goes so hard.
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"And the brush of grass against the lowering / Roof of the evening. The eye can eat the vanishing light"
From "Late February," a new original poem by Roger Reeves for National Poetry Month.
➡️ buff.ly/LIgOgG4
From "Late February," a new original poem by Roger Reeves for National Poetry Month.
➡️ buff.ly/LIgOgG4
April 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"And the brush of grass against the lowering / Roof of the evening. The eye can eat the vanishing light"
From "Late February," a new original poem by Roger Reeves for National Poetry Month.
➡️ buff.ly/LIgOgG4
From "Late February," a new original poem by Roger Reeves for National Poetry Month.
➡️ buff.ly/LIgOgG4
Whew, to have written this book decades ago!
Wendy Brown's States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity is a landmark work from one of our leading political theorists. This new Princeton Classics edition features a new cover new preface by the author.
Out now in paperback: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Out now in paperback: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
March 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Whew, to have written this book decades ago!
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Rhyme-lovers, a call for papers! David Caplan is hosting another symposium on poetic form at SMU—the first one was *fabulous*, generating real conversation among scholars & poets. Propose a paper to join us for the second iteration?! www.smu.edu/dedman/acade...
March 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Rhyme-lovers, a call for papers! David Caplan is hosting another symposium on poetic form at SMU—the first one was *fabulous*, generating real conversation among scholars & poets. Propose a paper to join us for the second iteration?! www.smu.edu/dedman/acade...
Tailors?!
Members of the Yemen Signal chat—including NatSec Advisor Michael Waltz and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles—left their Venmo accounts exposed, linking them to politicians, doctors, tailors, lobbyists, and each other.
Experts say it a digital op-sec disaster.
w/ @timmarchman.bsky.social
Experts say it a digital op-sec disaster.
w/ @timmarchman.bsky.social
Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public
A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
www.wired.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Tailors?!