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Aaron Colton @acolton.bsky.social · 1d

It's pub day (birthday 0?) for Writing Through Writer's Block: Lessons from Modern American Fiction! This is a study of how authors have used the archetype of the blocked writer to identify, analyze, and ultimately work through both internal and external constraints on their creative abilities.

Writing Through Writer’s Block

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 3d

That my review is #3 @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social suggests that the strategies (and politics) of reading continue to fascinate.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 3d

I think they will enjoy it!

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 3d

As someone who is wrapping up a unit on Dalloway in the intro lit crit class -- ROFL.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 3d

The close reader and text relationship gone askew.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 4d

Part of the author's contract with LARB reads that they may pursue "dramatic film and television, stage plays, non-dramatic productions, and web series" derived from the author's work. So now I'm trying to imagine what "Close Reading: The Netflix Series" might look like.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 8d

Your Miller/Austen essay is one of my personal favs in a really strong collection. The more I think about it, the more I think the book came at exactly the right time.

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · 8d

It’s the official publication day for Painful Forms! I’m so pleased to see the book out in the world and grateful forever to @uncpress.bsky.social for making that happen. uncpress.org/978146968894...

Painful Forms

In the wake of World War II, Americans struggled to grasp the shifting scale of violence brought on by the nuclear era. To grapple with the overwhelming suff...

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 9d

And here's the first review of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, from @profdgd.bsky.social in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

The Problem of the Parlor | Los Angeles Review of Books

Douglas Dowland close-reads Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant’s new edited volume, “Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century.”

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 9d

"Instead of mystery, Sinykin and Winant see possibility: to them, close reading is a practice that anyone can learn."

I'm really grateful for @profdgd.bsky.social 's extremely thoughtful review in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social today

as he writes -- "It’s enough to make the heart skip a beat."

The Problem of the Parlor | Los Angeles Review of Books

Douglas Dowland close-reads Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant’s new edited volume, “Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century.”

lareviewofbooks.org

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 9d

"The finished product of a close reading exudes confidence, obscuring how much of close reading is uncertainty." @profdgd.bsky.social on "Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-problem-of-the-parlor/

The cover of "Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century" over a teal background

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 11d

And then proofread again once changes are posted!

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 11d

In Monday's Los Angeles Review of Books.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 24d

In my mailbox today, a book well worth reading.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 26d

Page proofs!

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 28d

The subject of the theory class tomorrow.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · Sep 27

Arrived yesterday and already through the first chapter of what I think will be a very important book.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · Sep 14

A wonderful performance by Larry David! There's this as well.
youtu.be/1JGVHndX5MA?...

The Muppet Show: Wayne & Wanda - "Trees"

YouTube video by dorcm1973

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · Sep 14

We're beginning the formalism/close reading section this week. There's an article to be written about how Brooks and Warren, and an entirely army of formalists in critical journals throughout the fifties, agreed that "this is a bad poem."

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Trees

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pra...

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