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Robin E. Field

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English professor at King's College, PA 📚 Fiction writer 💻 Optimistic pessimist ✊ Editor of Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts https://zeal.kings.edu/zeal

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Robin E. Field @robinfield.bsky.social · Jan 21

Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts is seeking Provocations & Occasions essays for the 2025 issues. P&O essays are interdisciplinary, perhaps inappropriate for the standard scholarly journal, and of broad interest to academics and beyond. Please share with your networks!

Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts seeks unique essays related to the liberal arts--not discipline-specific, perhaps written in a style inappropriate for scholarly journals (humor? satire?). Typical length is 3,000 words, plus or minus, in Chicago humanities style and endnotes. Send submissions to zeal@kings.edu. Visit https://zeal.kings.edu.

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Cover of “Home” on the ukelele

Robin E. Field @robinfield.bsky.social · 11d

No fruit? Have a cat.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 16d

Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Nurture the relationships that sustain you. Protect your health. Find joy. Don't mistake any of these for the resistance itself. Joy isn't resistance, neither is rest. But you need to be whole to resist for a lifetime.

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 16d

“She’s not dressed like a slut, you think like a rapist.”

Stole this from a TikTok and want to spread it around as a retort you can use over and over on some annoying person flapping their yap near you.

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Robin E. Field @robinfield.bsky.social · 19d

The Fall has begun.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 28d

I'm excited for this event in Chicago! @brian-goldstone.bsky.social book is excellent. Such a rich portrait of the consequences of the housing crisis for real people. Very often upsetting but worth it.

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10/14 - Brian Goldstone: There is No Place for Us by Build Coffee & Books

Get tickets and support Build Coffee & Books by becoming a member

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 21d

@loyaltybooks.bsky.social is a gem. And they have a fantastic site you can shop if you're able: loyaltybookstores.com

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22d

A friend of mine co-owns this bookstore. This is not great.

www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...

Small DC bookstore reports 60% decline in business since federal surge

A bookstore in the Petworth neighborhood reports sales are down a whopping 60% since the federal surge in D.C. began. The small but beautifully arranged Loyalty Bookstore on busy Upshur Street near Ge...

www.nbcwashington.com

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Robin E. Field @robinfield.bsky.social · 21d

Looks great! I’d love to use it in my freshman seminar.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 21d

I've got some extra copies of There Is No Place for Us, and I'd love to give away 5 signed books.

Just repost, like, or comment to signal your interest. I'll pick names at random on Friday.

Totally optional: feel free to share how the struggle for stable housing shows up in your life or community.

A hardcover copy of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America standing upright on a wooden desk, with a stack of additional copies beside it.

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Shawna @mitsubishe.bsky.social · 22d

*deep breath*

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

A llama or similar large brown fuzzy animal stands in a meadow in front of what looks like old ruins or a historic site. The llamas head is thrown back and its entire mouth open in what looks like a scream but might have been a yawn. I downloaded this picture a long time ago and no idea the context or where it came from.

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Melissa Good Trouble 2.0 🇺🇦🌻🤍 @meltart.bsky.social · Aug 14

Good morning cuties ☀️🦋

This is a magical experience to witness.

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Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · 29d

I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.

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Robin E. Field @robinfield.bsky.social · 29d

Here's how I spent the midnight hour: giving a lecture in Pune, India. Here's a photo of the screen with me showing a slide with a photo of me holding my book. All very meta!

Photo of screen with photo of me holding my book

Robin E. Field @robinfield.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · Sep 8

The children are doing something called “airport theory” on TikTok where they get to the airport really late and then marvel when they sometimes make their flights anyway. I would like to be the opposite of whatever this is, please