Jeremy Dauber
@jeremydauber.bsky.social
Professor at Columbia; writer of books; poster of thoughts about movies, books, comics, music, other stuff. Stoker-nominated author of AMERICAN SCARY; PRESS 1 FOR INVASION for middle-graders from Simon and Schuster OUT NOW!
Still true, even if you're finished digesting (or if you're not)
Happy Thanksgiving!! If you're sitting around today talking with your middle-grader (or the middle grader in you) about what to read, delighted to note Amazon's offering PRESS 1 (Kirkus: "appealing...its twists and turns will keep readers hooked"!) for almost 20% off!
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
Press 1 for Invasion
Press 1 for Invasion [Dauber, J. A.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Press 1 for Invasion
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November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Still true, even if you're finished digesting (or if you're not)
I watched this today with my children, under similar circumstances. I thought it was wonderful; and the animation - the level of detail, the care and joke-work that went into it - really tremendous.
about to see Zootopia 2
I have not seen Zootopia 1
lessgo
I have not seen Zootopia 1
lessgo
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I watched this today with my children, under similar circumstances. I thought it was wonderful; and the animation - the level of detail, the care and joke-work that went into it - really tremendous.
Just watched this early movie, which I think has a surprising amount to say about enchantment and disenchantment in the early "trick film" horror-type movie, and in the movies in general:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7-L...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7-L...
The Medium Exposed? Or, a Modern Spiritualistic Séance (1906) | BFI
YouTube video by BFI
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November 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Just watched this early movie, which I think has a surprising amount to say about enchantment and disenchantment in the early "trick film" horror-type movie, and in the movies in general:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7-L...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7-L...
I taught this movie in my cultural history of the 80s class last year and made a point about how old the ww2 vets in the contemporary audience would have been and crumbled into dust in front of the undergraduates
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I taught this movie in my cultural history of the 80s class last year and made a point about how old the ww2 vets in the contemporary audience would have been and crumbled into dust in front of the undergraduates
Reposted by Jeremy Dauber
Happy Thanksgiving!! If you're sitting around today talking with your middle-grader (or the middle grader in you) about what to read, delighted to note Amazon's offering PRESS 1 (Kirkus: "appealing...its twists and turns will keep readers hooked"!) for almost 20% off!
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
Press 1 for Invasion
Press 1 for Invasion [Dauber, J. A.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Press 1 for Invasion
www.amazon.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!! If you're sitting around today talking with your middle-grader (or the middle grader in you) about what to read, delighted to note Amazon's offering PRESS 1 (Kirkus: "appealing...its twists and turns will keep readers hooked"!) for almost 20% off!
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
Reposted by Jeremy Dauber
Super excited about this - an event with two other wonderful MG authors this Sunday at NYC's Books of Wonder!
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Super excited about this - an event with two other wonderful MG authors this Sunday at NYC's Books of Wonder!
Reposted by Jeremy Dauber
Hope to see you all on Sunday!!
Sunday at 3pm at @booksofwonder.bsky.social: Middle Grade Reads Not to Be Missed. Sadly I will miss it, but if you're in NYC, you shouldn't pass up this chance to meet awesome authors @danpoblocki.bsky.social, @sarvenaztash.bsky.social & @jeremydauber.bsky.social. booksofwonder.com/blogs/upcomi...
Middle Grade Reads Not to be Missed!
Tales to Treasure
Join us in-store to hear from these incredible middle grade authors as we discuss their riveting reads! We’re so excited to host J. A. DAUBER, author of Press 1 for Invasion, DAN POB...
booksofwonder.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Hope to see you all on Sunday!!
Happy Thanksgiving!! If you're sitting around today talking with your middle-grader (or the middle grader in you) about what to read, delighted to note Amazon's offering PRESS 1 (Kirkus: "appealing...its twists and turns will keep readers hooked"!) for almost 20% off!
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
Press 1 for Invasion
Press 1 for Invasion [Dauber, J. A.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Press 1 for Invasion
www.amazon.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!! If you're sitting around today talking with your middle-grader (or the middle grader in you) about what to read, delighted to note Amazon's offering PRESS 1 (Kirkus: "appealing...its twists and turns will keep readers hooked"!) for almost 20% off!
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
It is impossible to claim that any one clip by any one artist encapsulates something essential about rock and roll, but - in certain ways because it's unusual - here's one suggestion, especially about two minutes in, when they begin to face one another:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXlU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXlU...
The White Stripes - Jolene (Official Music video)
YouTube video by The White Stripes
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November 27, 2025 at 5:32 AM
It is impossible to claim that any one clip by any one artist encapsulates something essential about rock and roll, but - in certain ways because it's unusual - here's one suggestion, especially about two minutes in, when they begin to face one another:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXlU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXlU...
Ok this seems super fun (and I'm a Zdarsky fan but haven't read this run yet - will hopefully correct soon!)
Zdarsky takes this and runs with it. Such a crazy storyline. If i remember correctly it involves an Inhuman, Purple Man's Kids, brain wiping, Mike Murdock becoming a real person, Kingpin, Kingpin's son (not The Rose), and people thinking Mike is Dardevil.
Have been reading a bunch of early Daredevil comics - like, the first three to four years of the character - and I love Gene Colan's art as always but man the whole Matt Murdock has a freewheeling twin brother alter ego was just a mistake from the get go...
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Ok this seems super fun (and I'm a Zdarsky fan but haven't read this run yet - will hopefully correct soon!)
Have been reading a bunch of early Daredevil comics - like, the first three to four years of the character - and I love Gene Colan's art as always but man the whole Matt Murdock has a freewheeling twin brother alter ego was just a mistake from the get go...
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Have been reading a bunch of early Daredevil comics - like, the first three to four years of the character - and I love Gene Colan's art as always but man the whole Matt Murdock has a freewheeling twin brother alter ego was just a mistake from the get go...
Super excited about this - an event with two other wonderful MG authors this Sunday at NYC's Books of Wonder!
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Super excited about this - an event with two other wonderful MG authors this Sunday at NYC's Books of Wonder!
Hope to see you all on Sunday!!
Sunday at 3pm at @booksofwonder.bsky.social: Middle Grade Reads Not to Be Missed. Sadly I will miss it, but if you're in NYC, you shouldn't pass up this chance to meet awesome authors @danpoblocki.bsky.social, @sarvenaztash.bsky.social & @jeremydauber.bsky.social. booksofwonder.com/blogs/upcomi...
Middle Grade Reads Not to be Missed!
Tales to Treasure
Join us in-store to hear from these incredible middle grade authors as we discuss their riveting reads! We’re so excited to host J. A. DAUBER, author of Press 1 for Invasion, DAN POB...
booksofwonder.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Hope to see you all on Sunday!!
Reposted by Jeremy Dauber
Thank you so much!! I'm really looking forward to this event, to meeting my fellow authors, and talking to lots and lots of middle-grade book fans!!
Sunday at 3pm at @booksofwonder.bsky.social: Middle Grade Reads Not to Be Missed. Sadly I will miss it, but if you're in NYC, you shouldn't pass up this chance to meet awesome authors @danpoblocki.bsky.social, @sarvenaztash.bsky.social & @jeremydauber.bsky.social. booksofwonder.com/blogs/upcomi...
Middle Grade Reads Not to be Missed!
Tales to Treasure
Join us in-store to hear from these incredible middle grade authors as we discuss their riveting reads! We’re so excited to host J. A. DAUBER, author of Press 1 for Invasion, DAN POB...
booksofwonder.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Thank you so much!! I'm really looking forward to this event, to meeting my fellow authors, and talking to lots and lots of middle-grade book fans!!
Thank you so much!! I'm really looking forward to this event, to meeting my fellow authors, and talking to lots and lots of middle-grade book fans!!
Sunday at 3pm at @booksofwonder.bsky.social: Middle Grade Reads Not to Be Missed. Sadly I will miss it, but if you're in NYC, you shouldn't pass up this chance to meet awesome authors @danpoblocki.bsky.social, @sarvenaztash.bsky.social & @jeremydauber.bsky.social. booksofwonder.com/blogs/upcomi...
Middle Grade Reads Not to be Missed!
Tales to Treasure
Join us in-store to hear from these incredible middle grade authors as we discuss their riveting reads! We’re so excited to host J. A. DAUBER, author of Press 1 for Invasion, DAN POB...
booksofwonder.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Thank you so much!! I'm really looking forward to this event, to meeting my fellow authors, and talking to lots and lots of middle-grade book fans!!
Reposted by Jeremy Dauber
Um, I meant to say "Thanksgiving reading" - the rest is still true!
Looking for weekend reading for your middle-grader or the middle-grader in you? Delighted to report that Amazon has PRESS 1 FOR INVASION (Kirkus: "appealing...its twists and turns will "keep readers hooked"!) on sale for almost 20 percent off!
Check it out:
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
Check it out:
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
Press 1 for Invasion
Press 1 for Invasion [Dauber, J. A.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Press 1 for Invasion
www.amazon.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Um, I meant to say "Thanksgiving reading" - the rest is still true!
Um, I meant to say "Thanksgiving reading" - the rest is still true!
Looking for weekend reading for your middle-grader or the middle-grader in you? Delighted to report that Amazon has PRESS 1 FOR INVASION (Kirkus: "appealing...its twists and turns will "keep readers hooked"!) on sale for almost 20 percent off!
Check it out:
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
Check it out:
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
Press 1 for Invasion
Press 1 for Invasion [Dauber, J. A.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Press 1 for Invasion
www.amazon.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Um, I meant to say "Thanksgiving reading" - the rest is still true!
Still really happy about this
Letting you know I bought this a couple weeks ago based on one of your posts, and my 9 yo somewhat-reluctant-reader just started and, unprompted, told me it’s really good, that’s he’s already on chapter 5, and that I should read it too. (And then proceeded to tell me the entire opening :) )
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Still really happy about this
And the answer to this is: it depends on how many people read it! I'd love to do one and have definite ideas...so tell your friends, leave reviews on amazon/goodreads/other places, and especially spread the word (like you're doing now) - thank you!!!
“Is there a sequel to this?”
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
And the answer to this is: it depends on how many people read it! I'd love to do one and have definite ideas...so tell your friends, leave reviews on amazon/goodreads/other places, and especially spread the word (like you're doing now) - thank you!!!
What an amazing review - really the most wonderful kind - thank you so much for sharing this!!
Letting you know I bought this a couple weeks ago based on one of your posts, and my 9 yo somewhat-reluctant-reader just started and, unprompted, told me it’s really good, that’s he’s already on chapter 5, and that I should read it too. (And then proceeded to tell me the entire opening :) )
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
What an amazing review - really the most wonderful kind - thank you so much for sharing this!!
Looking for weekend reading for your middle-grader or the middle-grader in you? Delighted to report that Amazon has PRESS 1 FOR INVASION (Kirkus: "appealing...its twists and turns will "keep readers hooked"!) on sale for almost 20 percent off!
Check it out:
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
Check it out:
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
Press 1 for Invasion
Press 1 for Invasion [Dauber, J. A.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Press 1 for Invasion
www.amazon.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Looking for weekend reading for your middle-grader or the middle-grader in you? Delighted to report that Amazon has PRESS 1 FOR INVASION (Kirkus: "appealing...its twists and turns will "keep readers hooked"!) on sale for almost 20 percent off!
Check it out:
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
Check it out:
www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...
Yes, that was my thought, too (although far more vaguely and inexactly than you put it!) - but glad to hear it echoed...
I would have thought from the kokoshnik-style headdress you see flying off one of the women in the church and from the dresses themselves that they were meant to be regular Russians and look more — to my vastly uneducated eye — like perhaps the Russian Orthodox protestors of 1905.
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Yes, that was my thought, too (although far more vaguely and inexactly than you put it!) - but glad to hear it echoed...
Hive mind in both Jewish studies and film studies: found this on YouTube, apparently a Pathe movie from 1905 that the site has titled "Russian Antisemitic Atrocities"...
Does anyone know more about this film? The timing would certainly make sense for such a title...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L2j...
Does anyone know more about this film? The timing would certainly make sense for such a title...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L2j...
Atrocités antisémites russes (1905) Russian Antisemitic Atrocities (Pathé)
YouTube video by Films by the Year
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November 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Hive mind in both Jewish studies and film studies: found this on YouTube, apparently a Pathe movie from 1905 that the site has titled "Russian Antisemitic Atrocities"...
Does anyone know more about this film? The timing would certainly make sense for such a title...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L2j...
Does anyone know more about this film? The timing would certainly make sense for such a title...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L2j...
This is a disturbingly great piece by @alissawilkinson.bsky.social
Good morning. This article by @alissawilkinson.bsky.social
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching?
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This is a disturbingly great piece by @alissawilkinson.bsky.social
Yes
The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Yes