@joannascutts
London -> NYC -> Paris. PhD gone public. Writing the history of American women in Paris. Previously: HOTBED (NYC bohemian feminists) THE EXTRA WOMAN (30s spinster glamour) & FIREBRANDS (25 women writers you should know) www.joannascutts.com
This is a gift link to Jenny Schuessler’s essential article about the DOGE assault on funded peer reviewed humanities research at NEH.
And about the lawsuit by @historians.org @modernlanguage.bsky.social and @acls1919.bsky.social that is bringing the details to light.
What’s your literary adaptation wishcast? I really want a new adaptation of A Room with a View, not because the M-I version isn‘t close to perfect but because I want to talk about it endlessly.
Well, they were abolitionists & suffragists so… disreputably illustrious?
An illustrious family!
Genuinely curious about this myself!
<3 <3 <3
The foundational US/UK misunderstanding is that Americans use “middle class” as a euphemism for poor/working class, while the UK use it to mean “comfortably off but chronically anxious about it.” Took me at least 2 election cycles in the US to figure it out.
Should have used « females » they’d probably be fine with that
They do be yappin’
Love that the « culture war grievance term » they likely found for me was… WOMEN.
Ooh, what’ll come first! The money I’m owed by chucklefucks who used AI to cancel my grant, or the money I’m owed by chucklefucks who stole my work to build their AI?
Phil Noble’s extraordinary photo of Andrew dominates all the UK front pages 📰
Bitch better have our money
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
Oh man, the real thing is so much better
Actual checkbox on Canadian citizenship-certificate application form: “I think I am Canadian and want to know for sure.”
🇨🇦 I too would like to come to the cottage. 🇨🇦
Aw crap fake photo, but 👏 the 👏 accountability 👏 is 👏 real 👏
Sadly had to break it to lifelong Leafs fan @tonyhightower.bsky.social that the #heatedrivalry Toronto team is the Guardians, not, as he suggested, the Toronto Make-Beliefs. Also they’re evil.
Well this is very exciting!
Sending ❤️
Extremely into this
They saw Spotlight and sided with the church.
I am so, so sorry
Pivoting my national newspaper to fash opinion sludge and some AI-related handwaving, on account of economic headwinds and also because neither I nor anyone in my cohort of elites knows how to read.
The Washington Post books pages were where I figured out how to be a critic. It’s such a rare thing to get careful, smart, kind edits, and I’m forever grateful to Steve, Nora, and the inimitable @roncharles.bsky.social for the opportunity.
What is the endgame of the scam of “fake famous author sends long fawning AI-generated email to unfamous author?” Has anyone pursued this to the point of money being solicited? I’m baffled. (But thanks, I guess, not-Frieda McFadden?)
Exactly. It’s so polite and grotesque
