Thrilled to have my new short story 'Appear Missing' out with @ergot.bsky.social
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Thrilled to have my new short story 'Appear Missing' out with @ergot.bsky.social
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Book cover: Melissa Schuh, Literary Autobiography: Contemporary No Elises and their Self-Representations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
Flyer: Melissa Schuh Literary Autobiography Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations -Explores the narrative strategies developed by novelists as they cross generic boundaries of ction and non-fiction -Presents case studies of works by canonical contemporary authors -Develops de nitions and concepts to analyse forms of autobiographical writing that flaunt their fictionality Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing Get 20% off with this code: PALAUT
PALGRAVE STUDIES IN LIFE WRITING Series Editors: Clare Brant • Max Saunders "Melissa Schuh's Literary Autobiography offers a theoretically elegant and literarily sensitive rethinking of the fraught relationship between the novel and autobiography. Central to the book is the concept of performative contradiction, which Schuh develops as the defining aesthetic strategy of literary autobiography—a strategy that embraces fictionality not to undermine life writing, but to open it toward deeper questions of truth, identity, and narrative ethics. Schuh's analyses of Roth, Coetzee, and Grass persuasively show how these works form an aesthetic lineage that contemporary autofiction continues to draw from. This book will be indispensable for scholars across life writing studies, narratology, and literary ethics." —Stefan Kjerkegaard, Aarhus University, Denmark Why do novelists write about themselves? What modes do novelists use to manipulate representations of their personality? Why is it often late in their career that novelists write about their own lives? This book develops the concept of literary autobiography as a genre responding to a profound uncertainty about the knowability of the self, often negotiated through a particular concern with the writing life. Comprising a particular sub-genre and style of contemporary life writing, the autobiographies examined in this book foreground their formal 'literariness' through the explicit use of fictionality, disrupting established (auto) biographical tropes by employing narrative innovations associated with postmodern fiction and prefigured by modernist experimentation. Taken together, they exemplify an aesthetics of performative contradiction, in which novelistic strategies cast doubt on the veracity of the life represented. Exploring works by canonical and popular novelists - J.M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, Günter Grass, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgard - this book addresses the increasing novelisation of contemporary life w…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, because my book is out now, fresh off the press!
Happy book birthday to “Literary Autobiography: Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) 📕🎉! doi.org/10.1007/978-... @hss.springernature.com
Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich:
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Congrats Melissa. Sounds excellent!
George Kowalik writes of Percival Everett's The Trees and the haunting of "Till’s body [as] an amalgamation of undead zombie, ghost, alien, and theistic possibility" as "Everett’s large cast of characters describes it as each of these..."
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Our newest cluster is here... and it's (a-)LIVE!!!
HAUNTINGS
Edited by Emmy Waldman (@emmywaldman.bsky.social) & David Hering
Feat:
Nicole Dib
Arin Keeble
Jay Shelat
Irina Troconis
Dorinne Kondo
George Kowalik
A. Banerjee
M. Stang
Christine Prevas
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I have an essay on Percival Everett's 'The Trees' in a fantastic new cluster of research on Hauntings up at ASAP/Review!
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a couple of big ones bought in Tokyo before they’re out in the UK 😍
A short piece I wrote last year - “Just in Time: Percival Everett’s ‘Erasure’” - has been published by the Journal of American Studies.
In it, I discuss my PhD research, Everett’s work, careers, and cultural moments.
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Thanks Jay!
Thanks so much!
My book came out on Friday!
Hybrid Novels has chapters on Percival Everett, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith & David Foster Wallace, before turning to Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Teju Cole & Tao Lin.
c20/c21 scholars/students… order in to your libraries!
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“Impeded” - feat. junior football firms, British pub culture, organised fights, directionless male youth ✍️
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Thanks Dominic!
My book is out a week today!
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Congrats Chris! This sounds fantastic
I have a short story in The Brussels Review’s new “Blanc” anthology, which is available now: shop.thebrusselsreview.com
A couple of big influences on ‘Impeded’ were Melville’s “Billy Budd” and Bill Buford’s ‘Among the Thugs’
‘The Peel’ was included in this anthology after being shortlisted for the MTP 2025 Short Story Competition. It was originally published last year: www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
My 2023 journal article on post-postmodernism (part of my PhD research, now part of my forthcoming first book) won an award!
My thanks to ‘Humanities’ 🙏
Excited to have my story ‘The Peel’ shortlisted for the MTP 2025 Short Story Competition.
It’ll be appearing in a print anthology next month!
At the British Library this evening!
Thanks to @librelit.bsky.social for publishing my story ‘Car Drives Away.’
Link below!
We’re taking a break from publications until Friday. We’ll be publishing Nicole Brogdon, M. Klein, & George Oliver that day. Fabulous writers with loads to say. Thank you for understanding!
Our 2025 Spring anthology is out now! As always these are unthemed & touch on some triggering subjects so read with care ✨ link in bio
*Small reminder, Spring issue was very behind schedule so we are already starting to read through the Summer subs which close tonight 🥰
My story ‘Hinterland’ appears in the Spring Quarterly Anthology of @querenciapress.bsky.social!
Available to buy here:
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