Bethany Johnsen Creed
@bethanysays.bsky.social
UCLA English PhD candidate.
former nativity play baby Jesus. new mom.
managing editor: the-rambling.com.
2024 LARB Publishing Workshop Fellow.
former nativity play baby Jesus. new mom.
managing editor: the-rambling.com.
2024 LARB Publishing Workshop Fellow.
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"Why is it that so many reality dating shows use formats that recall the courtship rituals of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels?" Miranda Hoegberg compares forms old and new.
The Best Use of the Worst Story: Realism and Reality TV - The Rambling
Miranda Hoegberg considers how couples learn about each other through watching reality dating shows—and what this might mean about how we learn in general from didactic forms like the realist novel. A...
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December 3, 2024 at 1:28 AM
"Why is it that so many reality dating shows use formats that recall the courtship rituals of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels?" Miranda Hoegberg compares forms old and new.
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"I’ve spent many years searching for some version of my story, yet what seems a simple premise—'daughter carries on without father'—is not so simple to find in children’s literature." Abigail Spencer on the Amber Brown series
Seeing Red, Feeling Blue: Rereading Amber Brown - The Rambling
Abigail Spencer revisits Paula Danziger’s Amber Brown series and finds kinship with a childhood not often depicted in children’s fiction. An only child of divorced parents, Amber manages her father’s ...
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November 28, 2024 at 8:07 PM
"I’ve spent many years searching for some version of my story, yet what seems a simple premise—'daughter carries on without father'—is not so simple to find in children’s literature." Abigail Spencer on the Amber Brown series
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"By then, I knew that what I had always wanted from a story was what I had wanted from life: to make it mean something despite what seemed like utter chaos." Samantha Colicchio on her journey with the hit TV show Lost.
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We Are Lost - The Rambling
On the 20th anniversary of the hit TV show Lost, author Samantha Colicchio examines the series through the lens of her experience at NYU’s acting conservatory. She explores the show’s philosophical qu...
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November 27, 2024 at 5:00 PM
"By then, I knew that what I had always wanted from a story was what I had wanted from life: to make it mean something despite what seemed like utter chaos." Samantha Colicchio on her journey with the hit TV show Lost.
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Give thanks—The Rambling is out! From Lost to Lord of the Rings, reality TV to “succubus chic,” you will not lack for conversation at the dinner table after reading our latest issue, now live at the-rambling.com.
November 27, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Give thanks—The Rambling is out! From Lost to Lord of the Rings, reality TV to “succubus chic,” you will not lack for conversation at the dinner table after reading our latest issue, now live at the-rambling.com.
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Turkey trot your way over to @therambling.bsky.social straight away, because our latest issue is out—from Lost to Lord of the Rings, reality TV to “succubus chic,” you will not lack for conversation at the dinner table after reading the essays at the-rambling.com. 🐌🦃
November 27, 2024 at 2:55 AM
Turkey trot your way over to @therambling.bsky.social straight away, because our latest issue is out—from Lost to Lord of the Rings, reality TV to “succubus chic,” you will not lack for conversation at the dinner table after reading the essays at the-rambling.com. 🐌🦃
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Bluesky is officially “open” now (no more invites). So just a reminder to not engage with trolls and bad actors, there is no algorithm here to promote or spread them, replying to them is what puts them on everybody’s timelines. So block and give no oxygen.
February 6, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Bluesky is officially “open” now (no more invites). So just a reminder to not engage with trolls and bad actors, there is no algorithm here to promote or spread them, replying to them is what puts them on everybody’s timelines. So block and give no oxygen.
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“Writing prose for experts is seen as harder than writing prose for non-experts, and I just don’t think that’s true. They’re both hard in different ways, and they’re both a practice.” @bethanysays.bsky.social @devoney.bsky.social
#c18th #AcademicSky
#c18th #AcademicSky
The Work of Remembering: An Interview with Devoney Looser - The Rambling
A year after the publication of Devoney Looser’s Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës, Bethany Creed sits down with the author for a conve...
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February 5, 2024 at 7:11 PM
“Writing prose for experts is seen as harder than writing prose for non-experts, and I just don’t think that’s true. They’re both hard in different ways, and they’re both a practice.” @bethanysays.bsky.social @devoney.bsky.social
#c18th #AcademicSky
#c18th #AcademicSky
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I write fiction and I run the production department of an academic press.
Writing fiction is MUCH, MUCH HARDER at the prose level.
Academic writing with brilliant ideas, convincing arguments and evidence, and dull prose will still get published.
Fiction has to achieve telepathy.
Writing fiction is MUCH, MUCH HARDER at the prose level.
Academic writing with brilliant ideas, convincing arguments and evidence, and dull prose will still get published.
Fiction has to achieve telepathy.
“Writing prose for experts is seen as harder than writing prose for non-experts, and I just don’t think that’s true. They’re both hard in different ways, and they’re both a practice.” @bethanysays.bsky.social @devoney.bsky.social
#c18th #AcademicSky
#c18th #AcademicSky
The Work of Remembering: An Interview with Devoney Looser - The Rambling
A year after the publication of Devoney Looser’s Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës, Bethany Creed sits down with the author for a conve...
the-rambling.com
February 6, 2024 at 6:24 AM
I write fiction and I run the production department of an academic press.
Writing fiction is MUCH, MUCH HARDER at the prose level.
Academic writing with brilliant ideas, convincing arguments and evidence, and dull prose will still get published.
Fiction has to achieve telepathy.
Writing fiction is MUCH, MUCH HARDER at the prose level.
Academic writing with brilliant ideas, convincing arguments and evidence, and dull prose will still get published.
Fiction has to achieve telepathy.
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This was FASCINATING
“Writing prose for experts is seen as harder than writing prose for non-experts, and I just don’t think that’s true. They’re both hard in different ways, and they’re both a practice.” @bethanysays.bsky.social @devoney.bsky.social
#c18th #AcademicSky
#c18th #AcademicSky
The Work of Remembering: An Interview with Devoney Looser - The Rambling
A year after the publication of Devoney Looser’s Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës, Bethany Creed sits down with the author for a conve...
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February 6, 2024 at 12:36 AM
This was FASCINATING
Check out The Rambling's fantastic new issue!
Our new issue is here, featuring even more encounters with favorite books from our youth, plus: the eighteenth century in conservative thought, queer pirates on the high seas, and a conversation with Sister Novelists author @devoney.bsky.social! #c18th
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January 25, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Check out The Rambling's fantastic new issue!
when I wrote about basically being Mr. Darcy
"The kind of self-segregation Darcy imposes at the first Meryton dance—the self-segregation I imposed every single day of my most awkward years—is fear-based. Arrogance is fear’s alibi." @bethanysays.bsky.social
#c18th #JaneAusten
#c18th #JaneAusten
Pure Heroine - The Rambling
Bethany Johnsen Creed meditates on the continuing cultural relevance of our greatest heroines: from the fictional eighteenth-century types to contemporary singer Lorde. They have more in common than y...
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December 21, 2023 at 11:31 PM
when I wrote about basically being Mr. Darcy
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Congressional staffers say an onslaught of calls and emails asking for members to support a cease-fire has caught Dems completely off-guard.
“I’ve never seen such a disconnect between where voters and constituents are and where Congress is"
“I’ve never seen such a disconnect between where voters and constituents are and where Congress is"
Democratic Staffers Told To Let Constant Calls For Cease-Fire ‘Go To Voicemail’
Congressional staff say the mood inside the Capitol is tense, stifling and bewildering as members brush off their constituents’ outrage.
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November 10, 2023 at 12:36 AM
Congressional staffers say an onslaught of calls and emails asking for members to support a cease-fire has caught Dems completely off-guard.
“I’ve never seen such a disconnect between where voters and constituents are and where Congress is"
“I’ve never seen such a disconnect between where voters and constituents are and where Congress is"
Nikki Haley to Ramaswamy: “well, you’re just scum” undoubtedly best thing ever said on a Republican debate stage.
November 9, 2023 at 2:31 AM
Nikki Haley to Ramaswamy: “well, you’re just scum” undoubtedly best thing ever said on a Republican debate stage.
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Please sign this petition to keep funding NEH. It's quick and easy. Thanks. 🗃️
URGENT: Oppose an Amendment to Eliminate Funding for the NEH
I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.
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November 2, 2023 at 7:18 PM
Please sign this petition to keep funding NEH. It's quick and easy. Thanks. 🗃️
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Please spread the word about the Ithaca College Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship! A one year fellowship where you teach one course per semester and are paid $42k plus $5k travel/professional development funds, plus various forms of mentoring.
DIVERSITY SCHOLARS FELLOW
The Provost’s Office at Ithaca College invites applications for Diversity Scholars Predoctoral Fellowships for AY 24-25.
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October 24, 2023 at 1:12 PM
Please spread the word about the Ithaca College Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship! A one year fellowship where you teach one course per semester and are paid $42k plus $5k travel/professional development funds, plus various forms of mentoring.
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no one has ever made a better Lady Bracknell joke
To lose one Speaker may regarded as a misfortune. To lose four looks like carelessness.
October 24, 2023 at 10:09 PM
no one has ever made a better Lady Bracknell joke
very excited for The Rambling on bluesky
“Our theories of nationalism are so suspicious and so pejorative that we are unprepared to respond to its surges." @profdgd.bsky.social
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Nationalism and the Limits of Inquiry - The Rambling
In this essay, Douglas Dowland writes about nationalism and post-critique in American Studies, paying particular attention to the works of George Orwell and Lionel Trilling.
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October 19, 2023 at 9:10 AM
very excited for The Rambling on bluesky