currently reading: Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker 🗽

two-thirds of the way in, and this book is shaping up to be one of the best horror novels of the 2020s. i can feel an article about it cooking up at the back of my brain as i read - about the writing of pandemics, precarity, grief, and solidarity.

*pokes head through the Bluesky door* *waves*

hi, hello, we're almost at the end of January 2026 and I want to be more active in this Bluesky world. If you're looking for community on here and/or thoughts on writing/teaching/contemporary adulthood/horror media/digital culture, follow along 🫡

Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all.

On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.

Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...

SCOOP: Candace Owens is launching a new media platform including paywalled content, a book club and fitness app, which will provide women with ‘80’s-style at home workout videos. I wrote about her quest to target millennial and Gen Z women, especially young mothers.
www.usermag.co/p/candace-ow...

One of the best cinemas in England, The Prince Charles, is unfortunately being threatened with eviction by their scumbag landlords who want to redevelop the site. If you love independent cinemas, time to mobilise!!! princecharlescinema.com/savethepcc/

"Choosing what to read, by the way, doesn't have to be an intellectual conundrum or canonical or chronological, it can be elemental." - one of my favourite quotes from @jencalleja.bsky.social's small but mighty Goblinhood 💚

Funded PhD studentship with our lovely colleagues over at Brighton Uni: Supporting trans and non-binary inclusion: wellbeing and dignity in health and social care www.brighton.ac.uk/research/pos...

Special time seeing three of Matthew Hopper's short films, including the premiere of Elephant w/ @aliwoods.bsky.social, earlier today 🎟 Each one had a valuable perspective on masculinity - thinking about how men relate to one another, and asking how they can express their vulnerabilities.

i think lucy liu could have a demi moore renaissance and i pray for it

Are you an experienced researcher with a focus on climate justice?

The @ccj-ubc.bsky.social is hiring for a senior research manager. Join our team! ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcsta...

jumping aboard the bluesky ship to see how things are going on here! follow along for thoughts about (but not limited to) books, films, higher ed, the general state of the world; all during a year - and hopefully longer - of me trying to write more 📚