Evan Kindley

@Millicentsomer Such terrible news, Lili! Sending my best to you ❤️

My job at the Washington Post was just eliminated along w/the whole Books section, most of Sports, Post Reports, and many, many others. Silver lining: my last piece was on the Muppets.

I reviewed Francesca Wade's "Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife" for the @newrepublic: newrepublic.com/article/202766…

I reviewed Nathan Kernan's long-awaited biography of James Schuyler for @thenation. Thanks to @krevinlorenzo for the plum assignment thenation.com/article/cultur…

We at the Review mourn the loss of Fanny Howe (1940-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. theparisreview.org/interviews/841…

Now unpaywalled: thenation.com/article/cultur…

James Schuyler, whose poems exuded such calm, lived an unusually troubled and tumultuous life, writes @evankindley. thenation.com/article/cultur…

“It must be hard to be March, one of those adolescent months people patiently wait for the year to outgrow.” (line from James Schuyler's diary, March 10, 1971)

René Magritte, The End of the World

deleting my mental health to focus on social media

@AlanLevinovitz Thanks, Alan!

Book recommendation: Questionnaire, by @evankindley, is a brief and extremely insightful history of anything that might qualify as a questionnaire, from personality tests to IQ tests to "what are this author's favorite activities." Re-reading it now and it's terrific. amazon.com/Questionnaire-…

the first supermarket meal deal was offered by Safeways in 1994. today I learnt that, bafflingly, the person they chose to promote it was Olga Rudge, partner of the late Ezra Pound. This was the Tube ad

just learned about recency bias and its my favorite thing ever

A brief elegy. I am deeply grateful to @NiallCPoetry not only for giving it a home in the autumn issue of @Poetry_London, but, more importantly, for inspiring me see it through. Subscribe: poetrylondon.co.uk/subscriptions/

Out now in @chronicle is my article on losing my job at MacMurray and the aftermath. Here’s “Life as a Disposable Academic,” that I’m sure many academics can relate to chronicle.com/article/life-a…

I hope lots of people read and consider this @chronicle @ChronicleReview essay by Jamie Bolker chronicle.com/article/life-a…

I am so proud and excited to finally be able to share something that’s been in the works for months. Introducing…MID THEORY COLLECTIVE: a space by and for early career scholars in the humanities to think, learn, read, and write together: mid-theory.com

The literary world, the most repellent of all worlds.