ME: *reclined, staring at the ceiling* Doc, be honest. Will the pain ever go away?
DOC: Truthfully? No. But it will grow more bearable.
ME: So I’m just supposed to live with this hurt? Every day?
DOC: Every day.
ME: *starts sobbing*
DOC: I’m sorry. But flossing is an important part of oral health

As Trollope knew well, the only proper time to use “curate” is when you’re talking about an apprentice clergyman!!!

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Seconds out! Round one!

THE DEVIL'S DANCE FLOOR

This isn't an official announcement from Duckworth. It's a page from my agent's newsletter and book fair rights catalogue, which is public. So, a tiny-text soft launch? Details subject to change.

A lot of thank yous and less Disney, to come.

🐻🥊👊🏾👊🏻🦁🍺

Thank you for writing it—I look forward to seeing what comes next!

Finished *Uncertain Sons* by @thomasha.bsky.social last night. Fantastic collection that does all the best literary and intellectual work of classic weird fiction while expertly updating and adapting the genre to address our present moment. Not a dud in it—every story’s a gem. Highly recommend!

There’s a pun to be made here on wood-boring insects/“Wood” being boring in sex, but I can’t figure out the right framing

The deadline for submissions to the next Northeast Victorian Studies Association conference is just two weeks away! Just because the theme is “Silences”doesn’t mean you should let this CFP pass by you in silence—go ahead and submit!

My periodic call for pitches to the 19th-Century Networks section of ✨Literature Compass✨:

Do you have a state-of-the-field essay to propose on #Romantic or #Victorian topics? a little-known or understudied author to spotlight?

Please get in touch!

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1741...

For the life of me I cannot understand why so many people enjoy word games and puzzles but not poems. What do they think a poem is?

Desperately lobbying my dean for funds to resuscitate Edmund Burke for a campus speaking tour

They paid him in nickels and cents.
While they acted like that was immense
It failed to feed
His two kids in need
And his wife who herself was incensed!

There once was a writer named Miller
Who was called upon to be a pillar
Of the site Earth-dot-com
Who saw him as a pawn
To write scicomm they all thought was killer

This is devastating to those of us who revere the limerick as a fine art form a la Lear, Gorey, &c.

A top-notch limerick that accurately reports scientific research may go for hundreds, even thousands of $$. Nonsense lyricists are a rare & expensive breed these days. We are few, but we are proud…

#EnvHist folks - what are some go-to readings for narratives about conservation in the UK, especially late 19th-early 20th C.??

On the more 19th C. side, maybe Harriet Ritvo’s The Dawn of Green, about Thirlmere? And maybe also Secure from Rash Assault by Winter?

Ellipses all the way down! (Are you also a secret sketcher, EC?)

Two attempts to draw the same yellow warbler, one before and one after I took a course in nature journaling. Art education has an impact!!

Happy first birthday to *The Ecological Plot*!!! I am so proud of you & how far you’ve come. When you first entered the world as a series of poorly organized Word docs on my laptop, I couldn’t believe you would blossom into the obscure, esoteric monograph you are today. Never change—I love you!!!

This point is well made. During the prospectus and methods portion of my dissertation, what I realized was that the committee was not there to give you lots of known things but rather to gently steer you away from trying to make entirely unknowable claims. Expertise is understanding limits.

The person Isaac Chotiner is hardest on is Isaac Chotiner. He only interviews other people to distract and redirect the ruthless internal voice that daily threatens to tear him apart. He regrets what he does, but he sees his subjects as the lamentable sacrifices necessary to prolong his own survival

The person Isaac Chotiner is hardest on is Isaac Chotiner. He only interviews other people to distract and redirect the ruthless internal voice that daily threatens to tear him apart. He regrets what he does, but he sees his subjects as the lamentable sacrifices necessary to prolong his own survival

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

A lways
B e
C owardly