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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · 3d

Newly discovered 1908 revision of comical Virginia Woolf work, "The Life of Violet," edited by Urmila Seshagiri and published by @princetonupress.bsky.social is out. wp.me/p5Yfi-5PY #VirginiaWoolf

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 8h

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 10h

it made my day, honestly

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 13h

Wife reports that Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century is on the shelf at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene

@johannawinant.bsky.social
@princetonupress.bsky.social
@greenlightbklyn.bsky.social

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 16h

Truly

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 16h

thank you so much

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 16h

Well this is going on my required reading list! Congrats to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social on an incredible lineup and on elegantly breaking down a practice that, at its best, feels (but never is) effortless.

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

OK fine here’s mine: the character of Jane Eyre is based on Dorothy Wordsworth

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 19h

oh actually that reminds me that the best one is my friend Jillian's theory about Portrait of a Lady -- that at the end, Henrietta Stackpole is hiding Isabel inside the house

cf @rscar.bsky.social

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 19h

it also seems obvious that Anna Karenina and Isabel Archer must have met in Italy

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 19h

mine are all very hinged, thank you, as when I insist that it makes so much sense that Ladislaw would have been at the premiere of Beethoven's Ninth

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 19h

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 19h

Omg

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 1d

I loved it

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 1d

the pilot of this plane just said that we could see the northern lights out of the right side -- where I'm sitting at a window -- and I think I did?

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 1d

honestly shocked

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 1d

I've long thought some enterprising art historian or intellectual historian or anyone really could design downloadable -- and printable! -- scavenger hunts for many museums for different ages and interests.

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 2d

i am feeling, i am seeing, i am hearing, i am getting the vibes, that students this sem are better than they've been in years because learning offers a rare haven from authoritarianism, a place to convene, commune, think together, refuel for the fight

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3d

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 3d

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 3d

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 3d

I almost didn’t post this photo because I look so tired

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 4d

I think it partly had to do with not being able to program the keycards but still

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 4d

It was not great! And I had flown all night.

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