Evan Kindley
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RIP Foucault you would have loved Spotify
One of my students just told me that when her 15 year old sister plays a vinyl record, she plays the same music on mute on Spotify, so it "counts" for her Wrapped
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Louis Napoleon: I hereby declare the Second French Empire
Karl Marx: OK Brumaire
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I can’t stop singing this question to the tune of “What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?”
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Idea for a television anthology series: "Roommates." Each season is based on a real-life pair of college roommates who both go on to be famous for different things. Season 1: Edward Gorey and Frank O'Hara. Season 2: Peter Wolf (from the J. Geils Band) and David Lynch
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RIP Theodor Adorno you would have loved Grand Theft Auto
And which driver is not tempted, merely by the power of his engine, to wipe out the vermin on the street, pedestrians, children, and cyclists?
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An idiom that's probably now officially dead forever: "sober as a judge"
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Some big news: I'm writing a group biography of the New York School of Poets for
@AAKnopf
! This is pretty much my dream project and I'm immensely excited about it
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True story: Susan Sontag once encouraged my father to drop out of college (he didn't, because he was on scholarship and would have had to paint houses for a living or something)
“I’ve seen academic life destroy the best writers of my generation.” —Susan Sontag
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In 1993 I wrote a letter to Entertainment Weekly and they published it. It’s all been downhill from there
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I wrote a (sort of!) personal essay about The Kids in the Hall, and what they meant to me as a teenage boy in the 1990s
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If you have the Criterion Channel, I encourage you to watch "How to Take a Bath," a bizarre 3-minute instructional film directed by Guy Maddin from a script by John Ashbery
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Speaking of Yeats' "The Second Coming" (as one does), is there another poem that has generated as many book titles? Offhand I can think of Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," Didion's "Slouching Toward Bethlehem," Woody Allen's "Mere Anarchy," and Robert B. Parker's "The Widening Gyre"
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Season 3
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Daniel Defoe on premature reopening, from “A Journal of the Plague Year”
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Last night my 6 year old asked me what “avant-garde” meant. I was like, I’ve been preparing for this moment for the last 15 years
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Ed McMahon almost blurbed Cormac McCarthy’s “Child of God” (from
@dan_sinykin
’s terrific NYT piece on McCarthy’s publishing career)
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The Cambridge Companion to the Essay, which I co-edited with Kara Wittman, is almost here! Here's the cover, front and back, including a full list of contributors. And here's some further info:
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Best movies of 2014:
- Nightcrawler
- Foxcatcher
- Snowpiercer
- Thingdoer
- Nounverber
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All the authors searching for their books on this database and posting outraged screenshots is an innovative new form of humblebrag
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I appreciate that Louis Menand’s new book contains a merciless analysis of New Yorker readers
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Season 6
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Gonna tell my kids this was Vampire Weekend
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Today we told our daughter about the one-year anniversary of "the sickness" and she said, "Oh, the sickness got married?"
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Last week was my final one teaching at Pomona College. I'm happy to announce that, starting in June, I'll be working as an Associate Editor at
@ChronicleReview
, alongside
@GutkinLen
and other fine folks. It's bittersweet to be leaving teaching behind, but exciting too.
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Hear me out: is it possible DFW actively copied his look from John Corbett on “Northern Exposure”
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15 years late, I realize, but I just finished "Never Let Me Go" and I'm not okay
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One weird editorial element of the Ghomeshi thing: the NYRB very rarely publishes personal essays. So it really feels like bending over backwards to make a (dubious) political point, in a way that’s uncharacteristic of the publication.
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Season 5
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For the "Passive constructions that make something completely normal sound weird" file
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This is delightful: Jane Austen used to regale her relatives with anecdotes about what happened to her characters after their novels ended. (From David A. Brewer’s “The Afterlife of Character”)
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NOT NOW, SUSAN SONTAG
The café routine. After work, or trying to write or paint, you come to a café looking for people you know. Preferably with someone, or at least with a definite rendez-vous...One should go to several cafés—average: four in an evening. 12/29/56
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Once again, for the afternoon algorithm: my essay on the Kids in the Hall, niceness, transgression, queerness, drag, homophobia, self-loathing, Canada, America, and learning how to live
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@kukukadoo
This is up there with "You can sing every Emily Dickinson poem to the tune of the 'Gilligan's Island' theme" in the ruining-canonical-poetry sweepstakes
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My article "Kenner's Networks," on Hugh Kenner, Marshall McLuhan, intellectual networks, and the midcentury conservative movement is in the new issue of
@CriticalInquiry
:
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Exciting news: I'm co-editing The Cambridge Companion to the Essay with my Pomona colleague Kara Wittman. Forthcoming in 2022!
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I’m very honored to receive this grant from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, and to be in such terrific company!
The Robert B. Silvers Foundation is pleased to announce the 15 winners of the 2023 Silvers Grants for Work in Progress:
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Me when I'm asked to provide a description of my "teaching philosophy"
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Some news: my book "Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture" will be published by
@Harvard_Press
in September. And it has a cover!
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I wrote about "Mrs. Dalloway," the 1918 influenza pandemic, and shopping as a high-stakes adventure for
@NewYorker
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Least funny version of this meme yet
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
"This Is Just To Say"
William Carlos Williams (b.
#OTD
)
(Photo: 1936)
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These are now vacant, everyone’s moved on to Sally Rooney Apartments
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My friend Julie Cline, one of the founding editors of
@LAReviewofBooks
, died this month. She was a brilliant writer and editor who helped make LARB what it is. Please consider donating to this GoFundMe which goes toward funeral services for her family
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"Everybody makes mistakes; only some of them become canonical." I'm very proud to share my debut for
@nybooks
, on
@Erica_McAlpine
's "The Poet's Mistake":
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Good call, I feel like people would not want to buy a book that contained Covid-19
An editor snuck Covid-19 into Don DeLillo's new novel—but DeLillo took it out at the last moment |
@lithub
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An interesting lexical shift in my lifetime has been how the word “discourse” evolved from a technical-sounding term in the humanities and social sciences to a dismissive epithet for idle chatter
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For the
@nybooks
Fiction Issue, I wrote about the new character criticism: why academic scholars have been reconsidering the concept of character
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I wrote about John Guillory's incredibly depressing new book about the past and future of academic literary criticism, for
@nybooks
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Season 12 (have not been able to confirm they were actually roommates but they *did* go to CalArts together and this is too good not to share)
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Oh to be a fly on the wall when Allen Ginsberg played "Yellow Submarine" and "Sunshine Superman" for Ezra Pound
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I'm very proud to announce that The Cambridge Companion to the Essay, which I co-edited with Kara Wittman, will be available in October and is now available for pre-order!
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He died as he lived: trying to get academics to stop using the word "imaginary" as a noun in book reviews
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There is something deeply unsettling about seeing Lionel Trilling in a T-shirt
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Next time I make a joke no one laughs at I’m going to add “The humor of it is probably related to the Sumer way of life”
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@parabasis
This reminds me of the time I got really psyched for the release of a 1992 movie called "Beware"
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“But what would a vibrator company want with a literary magazine, anyway?” I feel like this could be the start of a Chinatown-style conspiracy noir
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Did everyone already know that Wallace Stevens lived in a townhouse in Chelsea in the 1910s, and likely wrote “Sunday Morning” there? Well, I didn’t.
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Can't believe I'd never seen this photo of Ashbery with Allen Ginsberg and Marianne Moore before (from NYT obit)
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Season 17 (trying to stay away from actor-actor pairs but this one is too much fun to contemplate)
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This New Yorker parody is pretty dead-on, and ridiculously thorough:
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So creepy when you find the phantom scanner hand in digitized library books
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I didn't publish a lot this year because I was starting a new job and working on my book. Forgive me! But I did review John Guillory's "Professing Criticism" for
@nybooks
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“We lived among name-dropping as if in a fusillade of pigeon shit.” Amazing, dyspeptic description of midcentury New York literary society by Harold Brodkey, from his 1995 memoir of Frank O’Hara
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I wrote about Ezra Pound, right-wing politics, and how we came to see racism as evidence of mental illness:
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We don't talk enough about the 1975 Roger Daltrey album cover on which he's pictured as a centaur
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Anyway maybe don't listen to Susan Sontag (about this, at least)
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Real "last day at Sterling Cooper before the McCann-Erickson merger goes through" vibe on this website today
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Season 7
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Some good news:
@Harvard_Press
will publish my book "Big Criticism: Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture" in spring 2017!
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A good critic always puts more into dunking on a bad tweet than the original poster put into making it
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I forgot how incisive this summary of postwar academic poetry culture - rendered in Byronic ottava rima, no less - from Kenneth Koch’s “Seasons on Earth” is
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You just know Pynchon’s going to drop that Mothra book before his race is run
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@pjmaciak
Love all of these! There's also a famously homoerotic one he did for Melville's "Redburn"
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I like calling things ”nondescript” because then I don’t have to describe them any further
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Season 23: about 5,000 people have now suggested Ted Cruz and Craig Mazin (screenwriter of The Hangover and Chernobyl). So, that.
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Crowd, please help me source. Who are some academic scholars, upwards of 75 years old, who you'd be interested to read career-spanning interviews with in
@ChronicleReview
?
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Season 15
@dfdsyu
@evankindley
David Byrne and Gus Van Sant (who cheered him up at RISD when Byrne's vocal coach was dragging on him).
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