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Charlie Tyson
@CharlieTyson1
Junior Fellow @Harvard / writing about idleness & the work ethic / essays in @NewYorker @TheAtlantic @chronicle & elsewhere
Cambridge, MA Katılım Mayıs 2011
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but isn't this puzzling? why take a course in the novel & not read any novels? surely there were other courses easier to glide through if one needed credit. like taking a dance course & sitting against the wall.
however, this wasn't the case at Syracuse when I was an undergraduate there. much zest for reading, & a kind of hopeful "intellectual" aura there re. existentialism & exciting new ideas from Europe; everyone wanted to be a writer, like S. Beckett.
Rob Williams@codeslubber
@JoyceCarolOates I had a course called Modern Novel in 1984 we were assigned: Proust, Brothers Karamazov, Madame Bovary, The Red and the Black, and at the study meeting before the final most of the students admitted they had read almost nothing. I was the only one who read Karamazov.
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Really enjoyed this conversation. The humanities can - indeed should - be democratic. It’s a political choice that we marginalize them.
Jennifer A. Frey@jennfrey
I'm grateful to @DouthatNYT for inviting me on his podcast to discuss the fate of the liberal arts and humanities in the age of AI. I hope that all those who follow higher ed and care about the liberal arts will listen. nytimes.com/video/opinion/… nytimes.com/video/opinion/…
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me trying to make vinaigrette
Acyn@Acyn
AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
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For those in the Boston area, I'll be in conversation with the great folklorist Maria Tatar next Tuesday (5/26) at 7pm @HarvardBooks, discussing her new book ARACHNOMANIA (on the role of spiders in art & myth). Would love to see you there harvard.com/event/maria-ta…
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"If I could send The Last Reader a single emissary, someone who could help her interpret and make sense of her position, I would send Ozick."
@CharlieTyson1
libertiesjournal.com/online-article…
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Don't judge a book by its cover, but this cover slays
The Syllabus@syllabus_tweets
Both praised and condemned as the core of capitalism, competition creates neither innovation nor entrenched inequality automatically; indeed, as our book of the week details, what it actually “does” is less predictable. By Leo Hopkinson on @berghahnbooks buff.ly/0i5jljl
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The Nat’l Magazine Award for best feature has gone to @danielkolitz for The Goon Squad ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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“The constant stream of ephemeral media might numb a moment’s boredom or nudge you to buy a product, but the clamor of algorithmically targeted content tends to drown thought, not inspire it.” @CharlieTyson1
plough.com/en/topics/cult…
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I've taken to a very niche occupation: reading sections of novels that no one reads, taking time with background passages that professors who are familiar with classics routinely skip over. all the descriptions at the start of "Madame Bovary"--amazing whale minutiae in "Moby Dick"--most tedious passages in "Ulysses" (Irish politicians, old feuds)--almost hallucinatorily precise descriptions of landscape in Paul Bowles.
knowing that NO ONE ELSE is reading these passages is a weird sort of pleasure. it is good to do useless things often.
Amy Lynn Greenblatt@AmyLGreenblatt
@JoyceCarolOates I'm hitting the stacks at Nova Southeastern in the dog days of summer on weekends when I have nothing else to do. It's so rich! Just found out :-)
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@MitchTherieau comprehensive & illuminating, filled w (for me) surprises -- the pre 1912 paintings, the female alter ego...
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Anyone seen the MoMA Duchamp show? Worth going up to NY for?
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Intelligent, careful debate about what's happening with English literature as a discipline, hugely worth reading
Len Gutkin@GutkinLen
I am grateful to Caroline Levine for this stimulating debate: academia.edu/167043328/Curr…
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“Like many Englishmen, the neglected gay novelist Francis King was a bit buttoned-up. But the fault wasn’t entirely his own.”
@CharlieTyson1 on Francis King’s A Domestic Animal.
harpers.org/archive/2026/0…
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@brunellaism "a farm to build character"--v. Tolstoyan. Maybe the Russian had some good effects after all. (That said, the more Hobsbawm the better)
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I've finally finished up my last week of teaching at UTulsa and I'm thrilled to share that Chris and I are moving to Charlottesville in June where we will both be taking up positions @UVA. Some pics of my last few visits on grounds to celebrate--I can't wait to get back! 🧵(1/5)
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Interesting from Gillian Tett
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