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Linda Braus

@lindabraus.bsky.social

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Senior Editor for Literature at Palgrave Macmillan, aka professional book nerd. Otherwise: Midwesterner in NYC & proud owner of a dog named after a (very good) beer. Opinions mine.

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Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · 1d

The first textbook on dark comedy in ecological literature is now published, and I'm quite proud to have it on my books program:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Exploring Dark Comedy in Ecological Literature

This textbook explores dark comedy in ecological literature to increase environmental consciousness and critique capitalist-induced ecological crises.

link.springer.com

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · 6d

PETER!!!!

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 8d

what if we all stopped apologizing for how long it takes us to reply to emails and just recognized that everyone is doing the best they can

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · 8d

this made me frown

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Amy @amyinvernizzi.bsky.social · 9d

Very please to announce the publication of "The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion," edited by Melissa M. Wilcox

Check it out here:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#PhilSky

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · 9d

I have returned from a vacation where my phone mostly served as a camera/GPS as opposed to a communication device and I’m pleased to report that while semi-offline I saw many Cool Old Things, including—for the lit nerds (me)— the museum in the apartment where John Keats died.

book cases including Keats’ archive

Painting of John Keats’ bedroom and plaque establishing the room as where he passed

The antique bed modeled after the one Keats had in his room and passed away on

Another angle of the museum and wooden bookcases

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · 26d

Have you had to Google a niche grammatical question lately, or are you even an editor?

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · 28d

Just published: THE GERMANIC HEROIC TRADITION IN VIDEO GAMES is the first book to explore such adaptions of its textual sources in medieval video games. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Cover for THE GERMANIC HEROIC TRADITION IN VIDEO GAMES features a video game controller with a blurred tv image in the background

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · 28d

Age verification: my first MP3 player was a Zune, it was the one that was 30gb and shaped like a brick

Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 28d

Age verification: I bought myself a pair of Doc Martens before most people knew who Nirvana were (at one of two stores in town that carried them)

Joshua Earle, but spookier @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 29d

Age verification: I was in high school the first time the internet screamed at me through the phone line.

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Manhattan Bird Alert @birdcpk.bsky.social · Sep 8

Astoria the Wild Turkey explores her favorite gardens in The Battery. Foraging opportunities abound now with insects, seeds, and other plant parts. 🦃 ❤️

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · 29d

I mean, I enjoyed its presence, it scared some tourists though

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · 29d

How on earth did they get there? It doesn't seem like a good place to be a turkey.

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · 29d

the google lens thing on my phone is glitching so instead I am here, like, “does anyone know birds”

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · 29d

Anyway, is this a turkey hanging out next to the sea creature carousel in Battery Park, or did my eyes deceive me yesterday??

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · 29d

When I saw this tour in Chicago there was NO Scientific American, by the way, and instead a magazine about cats. We all knew Gerard Way had range, though.

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · 29d

She wasn't paying, and it was beeping loud and shrill every 15 seconds, but she and her mom had headphones on so I guess were able to ignore it?? But meanwhile the other 10+ people in the laundromat were like... eyes twitching, clutching their temples, looking at each other like 😬

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · 29d

wash to finish and standing there for about 10 minutes while a little girl sat in this massage chair they inexplicably have in the laundromat next to the (many) regular chairs. It's cash-operated, and if you don't pay to turn it on it beeps really loud to dissuade you from sitting there or whatever

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · 29d

This is wild! This year I've noticed what I have been referring to as an uptick in like... peculiar antisocial behavior? I'm not talking about anything dramatic, overtly harmful, or illegal, but WEIRD STUFF. Like, at my laundromat a few weeks ago (I'm still haunted by this) I was waiting for my

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · Aug 22

odd chip flavor choice but good chip brand, what can we read into this

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · Aug 22

constantly feeling disconnected from the earth except for last weekend when I weeded and harvested produce at the community garden and made my garden bounty into Garden Pasta™️ this week, which fixed it for a moment

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · Aug 22

I am genuinely short circuiting over Labor Day weekend being... next weekend... body and brain in denial over it

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · Aug 18

anyway, have been binging the show and basking in nostalgia despite the horrors of teenage life, many thanks to Jenny Han

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · Aug 18

I read The Summer I Turned Pretty series when I was like 14, and the show hits different for a lot of reasons as an adult, but primarily I'm like "Why don't any of their parents know where they are or what they are doing like, ever???"

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · Aug 15

Nifty!! Doctaj reminds me of the kinds of monikers radio DJs gave themselves when I was a kid? Seems like a tough decision, though!

Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · Aug 12

Chaotic king