Tim Groenland
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Researching contemporary publishing @UCD_English . Co-Editor-in-Chief of @theIJAS .
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Here's something that me and Evan Brier have been working on for ages: a special issue on editors in Post45 US literature. Delighted to see it published!
Issue 9 of Post45 is here: EDITING AMERICAN LITERATURE!
Edited by Evan Brier
@EvanBrier
and Tim Groenland
@groenbot
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Mesmerised by the first paragraph of Franzen's 2001 review of John Henry Days
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When you reach the top and defeat the last academic boss, they take you into a secret room and finally explain the difference between Aims and Objectives
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New academic goal: stay in the game long enough to submit a manuscript 30 years late
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Toddler has developed the habit of saying "now!" to himself in that reassuring Irish way whenever he completes a little task. He definitely got it from me
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Guys only want one thing and it's the extravagantly fancy signed fitzcarraldo edition of The Books of Jacob
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After a couple of great years in
@EnglishUCC
(given the mental circumstances, obviously), I'm excited to be teaching at
@SEIC_UL
at the University of Limerick this year. Looking forward to meeting new colleagues & students👨🏫
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My book is out in paperback today! Now available with increased portability, at a price more agreeable to the regular citizen:
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Here's the cover for my book THE ART OF EDITING: RAYMOND CARVER AND DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, coming out with
@BloomsburyLit
in February 2019
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The scholarship is to work with me on a PhD in Contemporary Irish Literature and Publishing, deadline 23rd October - a few weeks left to apply!
The School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin is pleased to announce a doctoral scholarship to work as part of a funded project.
To find out more about this scholarship, please visit our website.
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I enjoyed interviewing Lisa McInerney for the 25th anniversary of the
@stingingfly
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Irish people when we spot one of our celebs being identified as British
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Very happy to be joining
@EnglishUCC
as a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow for the next two years! I'll be researching US magazine fiction & the history of the New American Review (1969-1977, later American Review), edited by Ted Solotaroff. Excited to start on this.
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Very happy to finally get my contributor copy of this beautiful collection! (and thanks to editor extraordinaire
@gandercat
for letting me write about DeLillo and editing as a literary art)
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Rare archival image of T.S. Eliot outlining to Emily Hale the impropriety involved in her, a Unitarian, communicating in an Anglican church
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Things in Europe get more surreal by the day. If Varadkar (a centre-right politician basically despised by much of the left here) went on the streets in Germany to express these views, there's a non-negligible chance he'd be locked up
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that what is happening in Gaza is not just self-defence on the part of Israel, but it "resembles something more approaching revenge" | Read more:
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Ken Morris (
@kmorrisjr
, (great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass) and the Lord Mayor of Cork (
@KelleherColm
), speaking at a ceremonial tree planting in
@NanoNaglePlace
earlier 🌳
@douglassincork
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The Art of Editing is out today! You can order it here. Or, if there's a university library in your life, feel free to let them know about this amazing opportunity:
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Thrilled (I use the word in all sincerity!) to be among those funded here - and to be able to work on a dream project on contemporary publishing at
@UCD_English
with several amazing collaborators including
@kellehmv
,
@ucdCCA
,
@PaulPerryWriter
,
@SkeinPress
,
@MoLI_Museum
🙏
SFI-IRC Pathway Programme. Minister
@SimonHarrisTD
announces €24 million support for 43 emerging research talents in areas such as AI and vaping; Read about the projects:
@scienceirel
@IrishResearch
#LoveIrishResearch
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Release the uncompromised director's cut of The Hungry Caterpillar you cowards
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Delighted to have been awarded an NUI Early Career Grant! Thanks to
@NUIMerrionSq
for supporting our commemoration of Frederick Douglass’s visit to Ireland,
#DouglassWeek
(
@douglassincork
) – a team effort with
@carovschroeter
,
@SarahAEMcCreedy
, and many other collaborators...
We are delighted to be celebrating the fantastic scholars of NUI - including this lovely bunch from
@UCC
- at our virtual awards ceremony at 2pm on Mon, 14 Dec. Please join us:
#NUIAwards20
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The fraught moment in an audiobook when the reader decides to do one of the characters' accents
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A peep at the cover of this year's edition of The Ogham Stone (
@TheOghamStone
), created by English and Creative Writing MA students at
@EnglishAtUL
; featuring new writers (and some very established guests👀) from Limerick and beyond! Cover design by Anna Loi 💫
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I have a job (for a while)! Excited to be part of the
@UCDamericanlit
team this year as Lecturer/Assistant Professor 👨🏻🏫📖🤘
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Asked students to read John Keene's "Mannahatta" alongside John Smith's history of Virginia. Got some good essays back.
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Please include the following documents with your application:
-Cover letter
-Curriculum Vitae
-20 page statement, in verse, outlining your teaching philosophy, personal philosophy & footballing philosophy
-Hemingway's lost manuscript of 1922
-A solution to Brexit
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"The day wants the night," announced the 5-yr-old earlier. He repeated himself, then marched off without explanation. Later, when pressed, he denied ever having uttered the phrase
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Great to finally have a print copy! Congrats to
@ClareHayesBrady
on the mammoth editing job here - delighted to be part of this.
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Desperately shoehorning a Taylor Swift reference into my Emily Dickinson lecture in a pathetic attempt to seem relevant, pray for me
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A haunting and completely definitive version of this song, executed with unearthly control and no accompaniment 💚
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Just returned home to my opulent coastal villa only to chance upon my weird friend - of whom I still have no previous memory? - clad in my finest underwear whilst impersonating my every gesture with chilling precision. It's probably grand
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Thrilled to announce my new position as Sensitivity Reader for the Richard Scarry books! My first job will be to remove all the scenes in which cannibalistic piggies prepare to feast gleefully upon the flesh of their butchered brethren
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Friday evening, what better way to enjoy it than to log on to the website with endless different pictures of 20-year-olds and also the same video of a boat slowly turning around in circles
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This arrived! Delighted to have an essay in here alongside some very smart people.
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Spoke to a lovely group of students from Cergy, Paris earlier about Irish publishing. They presented me with their projects, including a whole magazine about Ireland that they wrote and produced
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Thinking of starting a podcast where me and my friends begin each episode with ten minutes of completely intolerable banter entirely unrelated to the subject of that episode. Feels like there's a gap in the market
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This was very nice - my favourite American Studies legend Ron Callan launching my book in my favourite coffee-guzzling room
@BooksUpstairs
. Huge thanks to everyone involved. 🙏
Always lovely to see the great Ron Callan, launching
@groenbot
’s wonderful book!
@UCD_English
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Should be asleep but have instead discovered the funniest way to fail at wordle ☠️
Wordle 226 X/6
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The mismatch between the average amounts of daily conversation desired by a 4-year-old and a 40-year-old is just catastrophic
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"Consistent citation from the primary text is lowkey goated when persuasive argumentation is the vibe" I type desperately into the comment box of a student essay, eyes watering
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Sometimes I can't help thinking about this devastating piece of work
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Made the mistake of mentioning to my theory class that Roland Barthes died after being hit by an ice cream van, leading to a) general hilarity and distraction and b) a necessary retraction a few minutes later when I suddenly remembered it was actually a laundry truck
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Showed my son his first world cup final yesterday. Less than a week old and he already has a sophisticated understanding of the modern game. An exceptional boy
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My mother tells the story of a neighbour who, when this was first broadcast, took to the bed for 30 hours with several bottles of Guinness and a bedpan so he could listen to the whole thing through without interruption
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If you like ordering your books two months in advance, this one's for you! You can pre-order The Art of Editing (or just read its nice blurbs) over here:
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Thanks to the two students who turned up at 9am on the final Friday of term to appreciate Donald Barthelme sitting at his drumkit 🥁
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Kevin Barry and Lisa McInerney gave two outrageously good readings earlier
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I had a lot of fun teaching in
@UCD_English
this year. The highlight might have been getting to co-teach a fantastic group of MA students on Contemporary US Genre Fiction with the excellent
@DaraD22Gothic
🙌
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Frank Wynne is a national treasure. I could listen to him talk about translation and publishing all day
Listened to this again today and there is so much great stuff in this chat with
@Terribleman
he is just brilliant.
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Virtual Symposium: TRANSATLANTIC PUBLISHING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Thursday 15th June
Full details here:
(Free!) Teams registration here:
A collaboration between
@EnglishAtUL
and
@stirpublishing
, supported by
@YERUN_EU
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Tomorrow, on the final day of
#DouglassWeek
, I'll be hosting this panel on 'Publishing and Activism' featuring people behind some of the most interesting Irish publishing projects of recent years. Join us via the DW YouTube channel for free at 6pm GMT:
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"School gets boringer and boringer and boringer and boringer. And when it's really boring: then you're a adult!"
A deep systemic insight from the young lad on his first day
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"Things keep bumping into me"
"I'm crying because you made twirly pasta"
-Selected quotes from the 3-year-old's evening
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The attention to detail in Normal People is really impressive, except for the fanciful suggestion that rooms in the trinity arts block actually have windows
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My best understanding of the distinction: let's say my Aim was "to develop a witty and beloved microblogging persona," then my Objective might be "to write a banging tweet that garners acknowledgement and praise from multiple power users, thus maximising project Impact" (?)
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Diane Williams on the joy/torment of "invasive editing" (the whole interview is great)
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Found myself in a conversation last night with someone who claimed to have read my PhD from start to finish. Never give up, folks
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Listened to the warnings and turned up 3 hours early to Dublin Airport like a chump. Now to sit for 2 hours and 55 minutes and await my flight
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"every person is entitled to become an author if he is literate"
anyway now i’m thinking about the time one of our interns went rogue and sent out this perfect rejection letter
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You don't hear so much about this one anymore. But the words have never fully stopped echoing in my mind's recesses
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Might log off for a few days, finding it quite difficult to process extremely disturbing world-historical events through a forest of bad takes and random nonsense and everyone's intricate little packages of resentments
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Gill's bookshop on O'Connell St in the 1930s, featuring crucifix & statues at the back (the publisher/bookseller also had its own brasswork factory & carpentry shop to produce church furnishings)
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Your face during the video call vs your face as you attempt to successfully terminate the video call
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Did you accidentally write extensively on a whiteboard with permanent marker? Are you now standing in an empty classroom, scrubbing painstakingly at the tragicomic remnants of your own stupidity?
No?
Friend, you might be having a better friday afternoon than me
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This was fantastic.
@NdahiroSandrine
and Catherine Osikoya put together two phenomenal panels for
#DouglassWeek
🔥
A panorama of brilliant Black & Irish women on
@douglassincork
, featuring
@NdahiroSandrine
,
@JoyTendai
,
@Diane_Ihirwe
,
@olamajekodunmi1
,
@CoachFoley14
,
@ashleychadamoyo
, Eva Kimpwene, Catherine Osikaya & Vicky Musitongo. Powerful insight on belonging, refracted through
#Douglass
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I hope this email finds you wilting gently inside a colander, your volume decreasing dramatically as the water drains from your nutrient-rich leaves
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It is 2024. The vaccine is still several months away. A man behind the garden centre shears your hair twice yearly in exchange for sourdough and a choc ice. An enforcement robot prowls the perimeter of Grogans, emitting nauseating bass frequencies whenever you step too close
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Interesting to ponder the fact that in the days we've been exchanging Irish academic letters, Israel has been busy
-obliterating every university in Gaza
-keeping Irish citizens in Gaza, apparently in return for our govt's mild criticism
-bombing a children's cancer ward
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The phrase "instant classic" gets thrown around a lot these days, but
song
whats your name, cheeky peat,where do you live,up the street,what do you keep,ginger cats,how many rats does it eat in a day,99 now go away.
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You're in her dms, I'm leaving faux-apologetic post-its on her empty icebox while savouring a cold sweet mouthful of plums.
We are not
the
same
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The insane cover for the 1989 Vintage Contemporaries edition of The Commitments (prompted by
@hering_david
's tweets on VC designs earlier)
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