Rachel Feder
@rachelfeder.bsky.social
English Prof @ University of Denver
Weird books, all genres
rachelfeder.com
Weird books, all genres
rachelfeder.com
i organized too close to the sun and now i can’t find anything
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
i organized too close to the sun and now i can’t find anything
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We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
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It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all—now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back—an exit, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death.
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all—now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back—an exit, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death.
Words, words. They’re all we have to go on.
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Words, words. They’re all we have to go on.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Reader: ah, finally the pay off has arrived! The romantic proposal that will make waiting through all that yearning worth it!
Jane Austen: Lord Leadhead finally proposed to Miss Swann and saved her from a life of poverty. No I shall not be showing you the proposal, I am sick of talking about them.
Jane Austen: Lord Leadhead finally proposed to Miss Swann and saved her from a life of poverty. No I shall not be showing you the proposal, I am sick of talking about them.
November 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Reader: ah, finally the pay off has arrived! The romantic proposal that will make waiting through all that yearning worth it!
Jane Austen: Lord Leadhead finally proposed to Miss Swann and saved her from a life of poverty. No I shall not be showing you the proposal, I am sick of talking about them.
Jane Austen: Lord Leadhead finally proposed to Miss Swann and saved her from a life of poverty. No I shall not be showing you the proposal, I am sick of talking about them.
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You know, Jane Austen clearly found most people really annoying, which is why her books all ended with her annoyedly telling us “look some of these people got married, some died, some were miserable, some were happy, but most importantly THE END.”
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
You know, Jane Austen clearly found most people really annoying, which is why her books all ended with her annoyedly telling us “look some of these people got married, some died, some were miserable, some were happy, but most importantly THE END.”
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7 years old now and I just discovered it has a whopping 5 reviews on Goodreads, which freaked me out. But in the interest of emphasizing that shelf life is real: it was just this year cited in a CFP for a panel about generous modernisms. 🎁
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
7 years old now and I just discovered it has a whopping 5 reviews on Goodreads, which freaked me out. But in the interest of emphasizing that shelf life is real: it was just this year cited in a CFP for a panel about generous modernisms. 🎁
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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You can just text me & I’ll confidently provide misinformation 💕
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
You can just text me & I’ll confidently provide misinformation 💕
Don’t ask ChatGPT cuz:
You can just text me & I’ll confidently provide misinformation 💕
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Don’t ask ChatGPT cuz:
Felt like a theory of the Gothic, might delete later
November 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Felt like a theory of the Gothic, might delete later
That feeling when u r telling a very long praying mantis story and u r beginning to suspect that the other moms at the playground are not that interested in your praying mantis story
November 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
That feeling when u r telling a very long praying mantis story and u r beginning to suspect that the other moms at the playground are not that interested in your praying mantis story
Normalize including the poet’s name in the poem the way Jason Derulo does it
November 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Normalize including the poet’s name in the poem the way Jason Derulo does it
the feminine urge to write a slim volume re: what romanticism can teach us about the present moment
November 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
the feminine urge to write a slim volume re: what romanticism can teach us about the present moment
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I had a great conversation about this phenomenon with some sociologists at ASA once. A colleague took me to task for failing to see how they KNOW the reference. They aren’t misreading literary references — they are wielding them to demonstrate their power to shape our ethics.
The fact that he named it Project Prometheus is priceless.
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I had a great conversation about this phenomenon with some sociologists at ASA once. A colleague took me to task for failing to see how they KNOW the reference. They aren’t misreading literary references — they are wielding them to demonstrate their power to shape our ethics.
Project Prometheus?! Is Mary Shelley writing this timeline?!
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Project Prometheus?! Is Mary Shelley writing this timeline?!
Top 5 movie genres are:
we shouldn’t be together too bad we’re better than everyone
90s house party hijinx
woman staring out of window
reproductive justice but patrick swayze dances
postcolonial theory, beautifully animated
we shouldn’t be together too bad we’re better than everyone
90s house party hijinx
woman staring out of window
reproductive justice but patrick swayze dances
postcolonial theory, beautifully animated
Top 5 movie genres are:
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
Top 5 movie genres are:
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Top 5 movie genres are:
we shouldn’t be together too bad we’re better than everyone
90s house party hijinx
woman staring out of window
reproductive justice but patrick swayze dances
postcolonial theory, beautifully animated
we shouldn’t be together too bad we’re better than everyone
90s house party hijinx
woman staring out of window
reproductive justice but patrick swayze dances
postcolonial theory, beautifully animated
Help I wrote a scary scene and now I need to lie down
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Help I wrote a scary scene and now I need to lie down
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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I am manifesting a movie adaptation of THIS IS MY BODY starring Kristen Stewart
It’s 11/11, let’s manifest impossible nonsense!
I’ll go first: I’d like to write the libretto for the Third Eye Blind jukebox musical 🧡
I’ll go first: I’d like to write the libretto for the Third Eye Blind jukebox musical 🧡
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I am manifesting a movie adaptation of THIS IS MY BODY starring Kristen Stewart
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In impossible nonsense: I'd like to learn to do a respectable axel.
In impossible nonsense I pretend isn't impossible: I'd like to write an Oscar-winning screen play about my great-grandmother's life.
Tbh the axel is far more likely. But the 1930s-esque silk dress I'd wear to the Oscars is divine.
In impossible nonsense I pretend isn't impossible: I'd like to write an Oscar-winning screen play about my great-grandmother's life.
Tbh the axel is far more likely. But the 1930s-esque silk dress I'd wear to the Oscars is divine.
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
In impossible nonsense: I'd like to learn to do a respectable axel.
In impossible nonsense I pretend isn't impossible: I'd like to write an Oscar-winning screen play about my great-grandmother's life.
Tbh the axel is far more likely. But the 1930s-esque silk dress I'd wear to the Oscars is divine.
In impossible nonsense I pretend isn't impossible: I'd like to write an Oscar-winning screen play about my great-grandmother's life.
Tbh the axel is far more likely. But the 1930s-esque silk dress I'd wear to the Oscars is divine.
It’s 11/11, let’s manifest impossible nonsense!
I’ll go first: I’d like to write the libretto for the Third Eye Blind jukebox musical 🧡
I’ll go first: I’d like to write the libretto for the Third Eye Blind jukebox musical 🧡
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It’s 11/11, let’s manifest impossible nonsense!
I’ll go first: I’d like to write the libretto for the Third Eye Blind jukebox musical 🧡
I’ll go first: I’d like to write the libretto for the Third Eye Blind jukebox musical 🧡
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All my love and solidarity to Quirk Books Union. The publishing industry has no future without unions, and I'm so proud that we were part of the effort to unionize publishing.
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
All my love and solidarity to Quirk Books Union. The publishing industry has no future without unions, and I'm so proud that we were part of the effort to unionize publishing.
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My heart 💓💓💓
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
My heart 💓💓💓