@johannawinant
Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her. Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
also thank you 😭💙
this is actually SUCH an appropriate Magic Mountain experience
Buddenbrooks fucked me up bigtime
excellent cover -- we wanted ours to look midcentury but remixed
it's so amazing
Tim, I want to see the memes!!!
"I need a silent sister to be sure." "Paging Dr. Behrens!" "What even is time?"
front cover of the book Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant
making memes is a great classroom activity to complement the work students can do guided by my favorite book of the year
one of the many good things about having read The Magic Mountain is that now whenever I have a fever, I can talk incessantly about The Magic Mountain
Markwayne's real name is Samueltclemyns
no one? based on a fun book? english professors? rachel weisz?
okay, who's watching the new Vladimir show?
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(the blue that 2 comes in is a perfect non-navy)
2 but in blue
you've got a little over a week left
my book comes out in April, a fact that I'm trying to feel less nauseous about
you get to the point where the thought of no one reading it feels great and you can say what you want to say (and then the thought of anyone reading it becomes terrifying)
My department at West Texas A&M is hiring a creative writer (with a Ph. D. required).
Please encourage anyone you know who might be interested to apply. I'm also glad to answer any questions that anyone might have.
Job listing here: tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/WTAMU_Extern...
Ah yes — we did a zoom music listening club during that time that I miss!?
ha ha ha YOU MUST
required: a few copies of the play, enthusiasm
useful: older children with a dramatic streak, a movie screening in another room for younger children, wine
we've done it three times so far! twice in Pittsburgh in the year before we left -- As You Like It and Macbeth -- and once last night here in Portland -- Twelfth Night
it doesn't seem like it would work, but we've now found -- in two different cities even -- that if you invite the right 5-8 people over to have a potluck dinner and read a Shakespeare play out loud together, it's so fun that your guests will start sending you texts like:
over and over they say it out loud: big ideas for the elite class, and only widget grunts for the working people.
ideas are for everybody. art is for everybody. education is for everybody.
The world is a grotesquerie of violence, stupidity, and loss, but Adam made shirts of the original serial cover of *Middlemarch*, and they are gorgeous.
GET YOUR WAR ON #1 print signed by the artist, David Rees. Three panels: 1 - Standing man on phone: "Oh yeah! Operation: Enduring Freedom is in the house!" 2 - Sitting man on phone: "Oh yeah! Operation: Enduring Freedom is in the motherfucking house!" 3 - Standing man on phone again: "Yes! Operation: Enduring Our Freedom To Bomb The Living Fuck Out Of You is in the house!!!" http://www.mnftiu.cc/category/gywo/war1/
TFW a signed print you bought 20-odd years ago is relevant again
thank you! (and hi!)
an easy answer to border control: "we are citizens of Austria because of my grandfather barely managing to flee fascism in 1939; and on another note, my daughter wanted a leopard gecko that eats live roaches for Chanukah/Christmas and so we outflanked her by getting her a trip to Paris instead"
Thank you!!! I knew someone would know this!!!