Cassie Westwood

No one's talking about how you can just throw your clothes on the floor

@NoreenMasud @frankendodo @CarrollReview Yup, mine has a bit about Carroll's beaver (so to speak)

@frankendodo @CarrollReview and also I suspect Carroll will be a touchpoint in many of the other essays

This beauty just arrived! Within: nonsenses of all shades and stripes 🐈🦨🐿

What lines of poetry have taken up residence in your memory? Read Cassie Westwood's wide-ranging essay on "ardent reading" in our new issue raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/current-issue @NovelBeast @RutgersSASHUM @andymartinink @AnnFabian1 @mattbevis1

The new issue of Raritan is available now, featuring work by Marjorie Garber, George Hutchinson, Sylvie Baumgartel, Ishion Hutchinson, Victor Brombert, and more. See what's inside raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/current-issue @RutgersSASHUM @tjlears @andymartinink @NovelBeast @AnnFabian1

we're at most like two weeks away from "HRT damages humanity's collective gut health; transitioning is biocide" as the various wellness/deep ecology/MLM/transphobic sectors collide in a dazzlingly hostile diet scheme

@mattbevis1 Thank *you* for your help with them!

@NovelBeast Congratulations. Great to see these in print!

Very pleased that two essays of mine are being published in Nov: one on nonsense and animals, another on earworms and transitional objects (links below). I wrote both 2 years ago – before the pandemic, before I stopped working in universities, and before I realised I was trans x

1. 'The Queer Art of Ardent Reading' will be in the next issue of @RaritanQR raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/aboutus/forthc… 2. 'Humans, and Other Nonsense Animals' will be in The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinb… @EdinburghUP (use code NEW30 for 30% off)

This might be news to some of you, so it seems kind of fitting that one's appearing under my given name and one under my chosen name. I'd rather you use the latter from now on, please!

@rebeccamakkai It's a loose, baggy monster (one for the Jamesians)

@robert_stagg I'm guessing this is from The Ruins Lesson?? I can't wait to get my hands on a copy!

“Wordsworth’s work as a whole reveals the way that the unfinished or incomplete work of art is the reverse of a ruin, even though there is a moment, a hinge, when the building coming down and the building going up are impossible to tell apart” (Susan Stewart)

@robert_stagg Wonder who this was 😂

Promenaded around local park with an older gay colleague today. Asked him if he had Grindr. His reply? “Oh no, darling. I am old and loathsome. I am that” - pointing at some desiccated shrubbery - “the sere, darling, the yellow leaf”. 🍂 #Oxford #LGBTQuarantine

@eparpillee ♥️ Pym!

30-year-old me, once restaurants reopen:

You know what I can highly recommend getting ID'd on the eve of your 30th birthday as a balm for the existential dread said birthday may induce. Of course, the champagne and rosé that I was buying will also be an effective panacea, I suspect

@andrewhdean I certainly hope so—I don't know if you've heard, but it's Under Attack

Embarrassingly weak stuff from Louise Richardson re #RhodesMustFall, implying that she's the only one taking history seriously ... (1/2)

The Poet's Mistake by @Erica_McAlpine, is a new book that makes the bold argument that even great poets make mistakes in their writing, and that we should recognize gaffes and misspellings for what they are. Out today in #hardcover, #paperback and #ebook: bit.ly/2XNrjCQ