Stephanie Insley Hershinow
@sinsleyh.bsky.social
Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. Reposts are jokes I wish I'd made first.
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🚨 UPDATE 🚨
Cuddly 5yo: “I love you more than the whole university.”
Cuddly 5yo: “I love you more than the whole university.”
Angry 5yo: “you’re the worst mommy in the WHOLE UNIVERSITY!”
November 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
🚨 UPDATE 🚨
Cuddly 5yo: “I love you more than the whole university.”
Cuddly 5yo: “I love you more than the whole university.”
Looking forward to the next few months of watching 15 minutes of Ken Burns’ The Revolutionary War on the couch every night before Dave wakes me up and says it’s time to go upstairs to bed.
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Looking forward to the next few months of watching 15 minutes of Ken Burns’ The Revolutionary War on the couch every night before Dave wakes me up and says it’s time to go upstairs to bed.
Angry 5yo: “you’re the worst mommy in the WHOLE UNIVERSITY!”
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Angry 5yo: “you’re the worst mommy in the WHOLE UNIVERSITY!”
“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
We just finished one of my favorites for bedtime reading. Any guesses?
We just finished one of my favorites for bedtime reading. Any guesses?
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
We just finished one of my favorites for bedtime reading. Any guesses?
We just finished one of my favorites for bedtime reading. Any guesses?
My kids came to a talk I gave for the first time. 5yo verdict: “I’m hungry.” 8yo verdict: “actually kinda interesting.”
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
My kids came to a talk I gave for the first time. 5yo verdict: “I’m hungry.” 8yo verdict: “actually kinda interesting.”
Cleaned out her backpack from last week and learned that my daughter votes third party.
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Cleaned out her backpack from last week and learned that my daughter votes third party.
Giving Seward a scrub in Mamdani’s NYC.
November 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Giving Seward a scrub in Mamdani’s NYC.
My daughter just announced that she was going to ask Santa for a dollhouse. This is what she got for her birthday in June.
November 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
My daughter just announced that she was going to ask Santa for a dollhouse. This is what she got for her birthday in June.
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This is so good!
I got to do a lightning round about my devotion to Clarissa with @sinsleyh.bsky.social, and she has honored me beyond measure by pairing it with one by Frances Ferguson. Swoon!
open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...
open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...
Toward an Oral History of Clarissa
contributed by Stephanie Hershinow
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This is so good!
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Pls note, #litcrit Bsky, the bolded statement here from Frances Ferguson: "I have increasingly come to think that Clarissa is the single most important literary work in the history of British literature—& that it keeps holding its own". This is gospel truth, guys. Why aren't you already reading it?
I got to do a lightning round about my devotion to Clarissa with @sinsleyh.bsky.social, and she has honored me beyond measure by pairing it with one by Frances Ferguson. Swoon!
open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...
open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...
Toward an Oral History of Clarissa
contributed by Stephanie Hershinow
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Pls note, #litcrit Bsky, the bolded statement here from Frances Ferguson: "I have increasingly come to think that Clarissa is the single most important literary work in the history of British literature—& that it keeps holding its own". This is gospel truth, guys. Why aren't you already reading it?
If you don’t subscribe to our Substack, 1) what’s wrong with you, and 2) you should at least check out this post!
I got to do a lightning round about my devotion to Clarissa with @sinsleyh.bsky.social, and she has honored me beyond measure by pairing it with one by Frances Ferguson. Swoon!
open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...
open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...
Toward an Oral History of Clarissa
contributed by Stephanie Hershinow
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
If you don’t subscribe to our Substack, 1) what’s wrong with you, and 2) you should at least check out this post!
Reposted by Stephanie Insley Hershinow
Congratulations to Nikki Hessell, whose essay "Robinson Crusoe as a Transpacific Novel: Hospitality, Recognition, Translation," has been selected as the winner of this year's Maximillian E. Novak Essay Prize. Abstract below:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#defoe #danieldefoe #transpacific #novel
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#defoe #danieldefoe #transpacific #novel
October 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Congratulations to Nikki Hessell, whose essay "Robinson Crusoe as a Transpacific Novel: Hospitality, Recognition, Translation," has been selected as the winner of this year's Maximillian E. Novak Essay Prize. Abstract below:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#defoe #danieldefoe #transpacific #novel
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#defoe #danieldefoe #transpacific #novel
It’s bulb day in Madison Square Park!
October 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It’s bulb day in Madison Square Park!
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
One advantage of giving a midterm in the survey is I get to read a short essay on “Chaplin’s Homer.”
a black and white photo of a man sitting next to a tree .
Alt: a black and white photo of a Charlie Chaplin sitting next to a tree .
media.tenor.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
One advantage of giving a midterm in the survey is I get to read a short essay on “Chaplin’s Homer.”
Reposted by Stephanie Insley Hershinow
Happy Monday writers @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ! If you're interested in public writing, you might want to sign up for what's sure to be a fantastic event this Friday featuring Surekha Davies, author of Humans: A Monstrous History. Details below! Register here: tinyurl.com/bddsaav9
October 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Happy Monday writers @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ! If you're interested in public writing, you might want to sign up for what's sure to be a fantastic event this Friday featuring Surekha Davies, author of Humans: A Monstrous History. Details below! Register here: tinyurl.com/bddsaav9
Just did this. Thanks for the suggestion/reminder!
My sustaining donor spiel: If you have a enough money to keep forgetting to unsubscribe to something, I highly recommend becoming a sustaining donor at the food bank (or other org) of your choice.
October 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Just did this. Thanks for the suggestion/reminder!
Show my pumpkin to your small children. I don’t really care what you think. 😂
October 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Show my pumpkin to your small children. I don’t really care what you think. 😂
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In which Johanna Winant (@johannawinant.bsky.social) and I make the case for teaching whole books. And argue for a model of close reading that would bridge high school, college, and professional practice slate.com/life/2025/10...
There’s a Literacy Crisis. One Classroom Solution Should Be Obvious.
You can't get better at reading until you care about a text.
slate.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In which Johanna Winant (@johannawinant.bsky.social) and I make the case for teaching whole books. And argue for a model of close reading that would bridge high school, college, and professional practice slate.com/life/2025/10...
Update: never mind.
A good thing happened.
UVA says no to the compact
October 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Update: never mind.
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"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"
Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...
buff.ly
October 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"
Here at the CUNY Graduate Center, we may not have…any money whatsoever. But we DO have a coffee shop that plays a LOT of Mariah Carey.
October 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Here at the CUNY Graduate Center, we may not have…any money whatsoever. But we DO have a coffee shop that plays a LOT of Mariah Carey.
If you find yourself in the NJ suburbs next month, come to my talk! You can register at ridgewoodlibrary.org.
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If you find yourself in the NJ suburbs next month, come to my talk! You can register at ridgewoodlibrary.org.
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Apparently CUNY has all the jobs. 😎
October 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Apparently CUNY has all the jobs. 😎