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Mrjuliachild666
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I too have moved to the nice liberal suburb.
Client press manager and Sales rep at Columbia University Press
Sometimes I write at https://dreamsofarcadia.substack.com
Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine (1988)
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.

This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Every vacation is now an archive of paperwork to make sure you are not overcharged by various companies
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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On Monday, December 1, Columbia University Press will be selling all books at 50% off! (And some books at 70%!) tinyurl.com/7wzhyfmv @columbiaup.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Am I late to the genre "Cozy Translation"
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I drink wokeness for breakfast (especially in woke 2) but it is great to see an ERIS press (a press I work with very closely) book reviewed at @nybooks.com

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Where Wokeness Went Wrong | Susan Neiman
Symbolic struggles cannot be a force of resistance to the Trump administration.
www.nybooks.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
What is the name of Ethan Hawke’s second book in Before Midnight? (Not a trick question, cannot remember)
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
There's a town called Realito in The Big Sleep. Realito
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Train hero of the week is the guy yelling at everyone to move in because there was space in the middle
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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This Saturday at 7 pm, two @columbiaup.bsky.social authors, Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan discuss their extraordinary new books, POETRY IN GENERAL and STITCH, UNSTITCH: in conversation w/ Christopher Nealon at @redemmas.org! bit.ly/3LAvRYz @keegancf.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social
Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan present "Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public" and "Stitch, Unstitch Modernist Poetry and the World of Work" in conversation w/ Christopher Nealo...
Join us for an evening of rethinking the power and labor of poetry in everyday spaces.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Two yoga studios that I have been to are closing down due to the cost of living (anecdata)
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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"MX Missile," slide 3 of 29 [gallery]
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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I had a really fun, dorky, SciFi-inflected conversation with Matthew Ying Yeung Metz about #GaiaWakes on the Kroc School at the University of San Diego's #KrocPod podcast. Please check it out!!

open.spotify.com/episode/3McT...
Gaia Wakes: When Earth Grows a Brain
open.spotify.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I’m at the tiki bar in SF and a tech guy ordered a beer because he’s avoiding sugar
November 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
People will argue that the modern left-wing populist turn started with Occupy but mark it down there will be someone who argues that it started with De Blasio
November 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Coming from Europe to New York for four days then leaving for California for three nights is what I call “the jetlag speed ball”
November 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Samsterix the guew
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Copies of *The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza* have arrived!
Full details, with 30 per cent discount offer, here: tinyurl.com/mry8864j.
Many thanks to @franceskalbs.bsky.social and @dirkmoses.bsky.social for their generous comments (see linked page).
The New Age of Genocide
With recent events in Gaza, Martin Shaw seeks to restore the idea of genocide to its central place in thinking about mass atrocities, to apply it to neglected cases, and ultimately to settle the quest...
tinyurl.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I.G. Farben moment
October 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Trains running so bad in Frankfurt they could use an eichmann
October 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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“Martin Shaw was one of the first to recognise genocide in Gaza... His book charts new pathways for understanding genocide – an endeavour urgent now more than ever.”

Francesca Albanese on 'The New Age of Genocide' by @martinshaw.bsky.social - out this week.

www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
October 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Every literary classic has a gross moment. Sperm in Moby-Dick, bestality in Last Picture Show, eating shit in Gravity’s Rainbow, the woman who sleeps with the bear in The Bear
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Now more than ever it is important to find community.
October 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Wild Things published by our distributed press, ERIS, received a Kirkus Starred review. Go Wild Things!
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
WILD THINGS | Kirkus Reviews
A grief journal in letters, filled with the particular balm of the natural world.
www.kirkusreviews.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM