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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 4d

#goals

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 26d

It becomes clear that this item’s excellent catalog record must have been a bit hard won.

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · Sep 7

Not trying to be mean spirited! Just posted for a laugh, waiting for multi-factor authentication while trying to upload receipts for the pizzas I had to buy and schlep myself because I don’t have any administrative support for either of the two programs I have to run now that the faculty has shrunk

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · Sep 7

I’m an English professor in the US in 1967. I bought a house in town my first year on the job and earned tenure with two articles. My wife cooks my meals and my secretary does my typing. I have to read all the books published this year about the one author I study. There were two of them.

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · Aug 9

Typo: Ph?D?

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · Jun 30

Really loved this one

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · Jun 15

!!! Miss you and hope we can connect before too long!

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · Jun 15

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · Jun 12

Hello from the archives!

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · Jun 5

Another good book day!

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · May 30

Good book day

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · Apr 21

Little known fact: Mary, the character played by Parker Posey in the 1995 indie film "Party Girl," was actually based on me in college

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · Apr 14

If astrology isn’t real, why does Sarah Michelle Gellar share a birthday with Frederic Jameson?

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · Mar 25

Big ups to @jordanstein.bsky.social for stopping by my class to talk about Nina Simone! He's got a whole ass book about her: www.dukeupress.edu/fantasies-of...

www.dukeupress.edu

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · Mar 20

🤩🤩

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · Mar 13

The British Library’s incredibly rare and totally pristine copy of the complete 1875 French translation of Marx’s Capital in quarto was personally donated by the author, and while I am not 100% sure what I mean by it, I feel compelled to say: it could always be like this