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Robert Dale Parker
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Here for US &/or Modern fiction & poetry, critical theory, crime fiction. Author of How to Interpret Literature & books on US & Native American literature. Emerging writer of mystery & crime fiction.

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Recently, I went to see the Elizabeth Catlett exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. Here is Catlett’s woodcut of Phillis Wheatley, based on the famous frontispiece to Wheatley’s book of poems.

#Poetry #Chicago #Boston #Wheatley
January 19, 2026 at 9:31 PM
If you're at the Modern Language Association convention, you might stop by the Oxford University Press booth and check out my new book, The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression. Isn't that a great cover?

#MLA26
January 10, 2026 at 7:04 PM
To think that there are people in the world who would do this to other people . . .

To think that millions of people would choose anyone who would do this to lead them . . .
December 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I guess I should use the occasion of Trump’s ruthless & callous Gatsby party last night to share news of my latest article: “Wealthy White Whining: The Great Depression in the Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald,” in the latest issue of Studies in American Fiction.

#Gatsby #Fitzgerald #Trump
November 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Thousand came out for the #NoKings protest today in Champaign-Urbana.

The sign on the left says: "Mike Johnson, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Susan Collins . . . GOP. HE GRABBED US BY THESE PUSSIES."
October 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Champaign-Urbana showed up with thousands of people for today's #NoKings protest.
October 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Sure, I know that Zohran Mamdani is super popular and showing up everywhere, but I didn’t expect to see him on the back of my morning cereal box.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

#ZohranMamdani #Mamdani #NewYork #NewYorkCity
September 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
#Football game last night.
August 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This morning's prairie walk.
August 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Devastated to learn of the death of Brian McHale, my good friend for over 50 years, from metastatic melanoma. Here are some of Brian’s books. His many articles and books leave a great legacy, but not as great as his friendship. RIP.
August 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Great satire of the New York Times' coverage of Mamdani. If you go to mamdanitimes.com and click on "Publish Another," you see a series of satirical fake NYT headlines expressing inane NY Times-style doubt about Mamdani—and you can send in your own. Don't miss it.
July 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Proof! Why does proof always look more beautiful than the published work?

This article on Fitzgerald in the next Studies in Amer Fiction is a spinoff from my new book, The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression (online for free at many univ libraries):

global.oup.com/academic/pro...
July 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Sturgeon Bay in Door County, Wisconsin

#Sunset
June 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It’s time for journalists, “journalists,” & pundits to put a moratorium on the word “deal,” which they have turned into a tool for sanewashing & ventriloquizing Trump & institutionalizing his transactional narcissism & vanity.

#Trump #Tariffs #LawFirms #Universities #Congress
May 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
From today's walk in a county park.

#Deer #Walking
May 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Clematis.

From searching online, I believe these are Clematis florida, also known as Asian virginsbower, passion flower clematis, and Asian clematis.

#Bloomscrolling
May 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
May 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Marc Elias on US journalism's feeble resistance to Trump:

#Journalism #Trump #Democracy
April 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Act Blue responds to Trump's attack.
April 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Who would have thought that the court that gave Trump immunity would dilly dally over whether he can shred the Constitution?

As a sign at a rally last week said: "They're eating the checks. They're eating the balances."
April 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Went to see the cherry blossoms the other day.

#Bloomscrolling #Spring
April 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The rampant normalizing of Trump's whacko and destructive behavior is indescribably dangerous.
April 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Today is the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby.

#Gatsby
April 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM