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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · 19h

We pay Jared Leto because Jordan Catalano. I don't make the rules.

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · 19h

We pay Jared Leto because Jordan Catalano.

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · 10d

I enjoyed One Battle After Another but given the choice I would definitely hire the characters in Andor to do my revolution.

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · 21d

I'm praying for a social media that is nothing but pictures of the young Robert Redford from now on. Is that too much to ask?

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · Sep 1

Sample online no longer working! But DM me if you'd like a PDF of the introduction.

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yay! Bloomsbury put a sample up online. Here it is!

Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing @bloomsburylit.bsky.social · Aug 27

New for your library: ‘Teenage Time’ by @pamthur.bsky.social

Discover how the teenager, as they has been perceived since the 1940s, have shaped the temporal imaginary of the 20th and 21st century literature.

📖 Read a sample: bit.ly/4m33waB
📘 More info: bit.ly/45nJBfn

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · Aug 27

“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married, and together they will save the Arts and Humanities and rid the world of AI!”

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · Aug 22

Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025 - Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.

www.bloomsbury.com

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · Aug 19

That would be brilliant. I wish it cost less!

Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · Aug 15

The connection is via the act of burning money --done by a gang of young boys in Greene's "The Destructors" and also done by the KLF when they burned a million pounds on Jura in 1994-- thinking about how burning money becomes a weirdly unreadable "adolescent" act. Thank you for asking!

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · Jul 15

My book Teenage Time comes out August 21st from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teenage-t... Here it is!

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · Jun 5

The Onion is going to struggle hard to make this funnier than the real thing!

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · Jun 1

Lots of great people!

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · May 22

People of Sussex and beyond, get yourself to Sussex English’s own Hope Wolf’s fantastic Sussex Modernism exhibit at the Towner in Eastbourne. So so good!

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · May 18

The Gluten Free Pasta will Never Be Eaten

elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · May 13

make an observation about your pantry that also sounds like the title of a novel: WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE BEANS

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · May 16

Yay Hester and Jonathan!

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · May 13

It is one of my favourite novels too- on the list w The Golden Bowl, Middlemarch, To the Lighthouse, The Crying of Lot 49. Maybe I should reread.

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · May 12

At one point my husband and I planned to write a book called Crap Bike Lanes of Philadelphia.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · May 9

I realize I’m not Catholic & this is all none of my business, but like most Jewish girls, I thought the Vatican Rag was amazing & I’ve occasionally imagined going to confession because it seemed like an offbeat way to get therapy

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · May 8

Hey new Pope! Remember your Villanova University roots, and use your papal dispensation to keep the Paoli/Thorndale Line running. #PaoliLocal #MaybetooLocal whyy.org/articles/sep...

What would SEPTA cuts mean for Philadelphia’s suburbs?

The potential elimination of SEPTA’s Paoli/Thorndale regional rail line sparked fury among Chester County legislators.

whyy.org

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · May 7

Do we get to say “No pope, radio”?

MSNBC @msnbc.com · May 7

BREAKING: Black smoke at Vatican, no pope elected

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · May 5

Add a tariff and ruin a movie.

Tax Driver

David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · May 5

Add a tariff and ruin a movie

Vatman Returns.

Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · May 5

Add a tariff and ruin a movie

Excise through the gift shop

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Apr 28

Ah god dammit. Joshua Clover wrote about both people and music as if he loved them so much he couldn’t bear it, & indeed he really did love them like this, to the joy of those he knew & shaped, & to the consternation of those who loved either less. What a loss. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/11...

Roadrunning: Joshua Clover in Conversation with Alex Abramovich

November 10, 2021 – Emails about rock ’n’ roll freedom, American capitalism, and automobiles.

www.theparisreview.org

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Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social · Apr 28

Goodbye Joshua Clover, critic and poet, a singular brilliance who made good trouble. (And maybe a little of the bad kind.) The world shrinks and grows duller immediately with this shocking news. I feel lucky I knew you, and ache for those who knew you better. And who the fuck *is Mick Jagger?

Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · Apr 28

RIP Jane Dark

Joshua Clover, reading poetry at Harvard in 2006 wearing a T-shirt that reads WHO THE FUCK IS MICK JAGGER

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