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Reposting/transmuting these monitory bits of critical biography as tripartite career-path/lifeplan 🧵: (1) Deliberate self-exposure to the Vico virus

@PhelanReads Hi... my first one, White Mythology is on Kindle via redfiendpub.com/ebooks but not sure about Unlimited, as that up to the publisher...my second, She Sang to Them, She Sang, is paper only, and the publisher is on hiatus due to serious health issues

@WD_Clarke Hi, how are you doing? Is your book available on Kindle unlimited?

I'll imagine this flock of wild turkeys as domestic so I can legit refer to them by the clearly superior "Rafter of Turkeys"

@MorrisACollins 0/5?! LOL... Seriously, though, the Home Visit is one of my fave short stories, with T.C. Boyle's Balto and Mary Gaitskill's, Tiny Smiling Daddy.

This is definitely one of my favorite goodreads reviews of my story from the 2024 O. Henry collection. On that note, if you're one of the select few who have read my new novel, The Tavern at the End of History--would love a review in any of the places. (Chuck, I'll send you one!)

@nikhil_palsingh @lpolgreen Yup

Great essay today by @lpolgreen It’s Not Trump. It’s America. nytimes.com/2026/03/26/opi…

@DepartureJay Didn't he exclude Hard Times from his exclusion, or am I, a nominal non-AI, hallucinating again?

F. R. Leavis in 1948. He gives his reasons for excluding Dickens and Joyce. Damn short list from the professor.

(fr. ca. 1685, also, sans hyphens fr 1708)

"come-at-able" [Emma, Jane Austen (1816)]

The word *literature* has no origin. […] I will have devoted my life to an elusive prey whose name had no meaning, no use, no function, no design, no origin, no end. — Pascal Quignard, L’Homme aux trois lettres (2020)

...but probably what Karp's America understands as foundational to JH's theory of "communicative action"

Not exactly what Jürgen Habermas meant by the "unfinished project of modernity... (RIP JH, Karp's abortive doctoral supervisor)

Feels apropos somehow

Authors, Critics (fr W.H. Auden, The Dyer's hand)

(Half-life of the Ship of Theseus corollary 1) ((Since I've *completely* forgotten this, pls don't judge me harshly for self-RTing, ha-ha!))

Context: Wimsatt critiques collaborator Monroe Beardsley's section of The Intentional Fallacy: —This is very badly written...Do not do this to me again. —As if I intended to! —It sure ain't no Verbal Icon. —Il n'y a pas de hors-texte! —Sez one author who will soon be dead.

Four people at AWP asked me what kind of Jew I am.

And we must leave it to history to determine if he shall be its Yeats, [Wyndham] Lewis, or Pound

Galleon Books - fundraiser! Check it out, read the spiel/pitch/appeal. gofund.me/b6577937d

@DepartureJay The boy on the left is chasing some figment of his imagination :)

@WD_Clarke They looking like they’re really trucking.

Last day on the river this year... 14C and perhaps 40mm of rain tomorrow :(