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Sheila Liming

@seeshespeak.bsky.social

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reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator Champlain College (Burlington, VT) HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · Mar 25

I wrote about the history of Wharton film adaptations (and why we haven’t had a decent one of those in 25 years!) for Film Quarterly

Screenshot of a pdf with text and a sepia-toned photo of a woman (Edith Wharton) c. 1900 wearing a fancy dress and fur muff

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4h

GOP’s labor market policy is market protectionism for white men.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 5h

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 5h

“… the gross repeal of a right that took decades to build is at risk of going unreported … Without culture, our capacities for self-government atrophy, our local communities wane, our intellectual and emotional lives wither and default to AI slop, and our paths to meaning and fulfillment close.”

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5h

Culture might seem a less consequential right than free assembly+ its infringement makes less spectacular news than repressive violence. But the repeal of the right to culture is grave.

honored to be with @isanchezprado.bsky.social in @hyperallergic.com today!

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How to Protect Your Right to Culture

The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.

hyperallergic.com

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 17h

lol

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

For a century, the BBC has broadcast the weather report for the seas around the UK. "The Shipping Forecast" has informed and lulled generations who tune in to hear it.

Opinion: 'The Shipping Forecast' reminds us of the power of the human voice

For a century, the BBC has broadcast the weather report for the seas around the UK. "The Shipping Forecast" has informed and lulled generations who tune in to hear it.

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

This is how I spent my day and it was disgustingly, astonishingly good.

Paperback book (O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker) against a flowered upholstery background

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!

Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

Mason Bros. architectural salvage in Essex Junction (and 5 Corners Antiques, directly upstairs from Mason Bros).

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 2d

Watched IN THE DARK (2000) for the first time last night — a film that is so cheaply and basically made, it ought to be awful. But it’s not; in fact, it’s proof that sometimes all you need for a really good film is a *really really good script*.

Black and white image of a library building at night as seen through tall windows

Black and white image of a woman with a flashlight walking in the dark

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 3d

Personally I prefer a society whose members feel some pressure to signal virtue over one where vice is continually rewarded

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 3d

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah it’s STUPID

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 4d

(Sorry.)

Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 4d

He told me the story of his promotion 30 years ago, where he was asked by admin, “What rank do you want?” after teaching at the college for several years.

He replied “senior” and someone wrote it on a form and then he was a full professor and has been ever since (2). 😬

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 4d

I’m applying for promotion and asked a senior colleague (who I really admire) if he’d write one of the 7 letters required for my portfolio … (1)

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 5d

Same. I hope they’re keeping warm and hydrating there in that Submittable queue.

Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 5d

I love it when writers submitting to NDQ email me and are like “it’s been 2 months and I haven’t heard anything …”

Like, bruh, have you submitted to a literary journal before or what?

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 5d

ANYTHING by Chris Kraus

Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 7d

For just once, I like a “time-saving” piece of technological innovation to actually save me time instead of stealing more of it away from me.

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 7d

a new Chris Kraus book > a new Pynchon book

And I say this as someone who enjoys the heck out of Pynchon.

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 8d

See Laura Miller's 2009 "The Rise and Not-Quite Fall of the American Book Wholesaler"

Of the Big Three distributors described in Miller's article, only Ingram remains. (Advanced Marketing Services was acquired by Baker & Taylor in 2007.)

doi.org/10.1207/S153...

The Rise and Not-Quite Fall of the American Book Wholesaler

This article uses historical and interview data to examine the transformation of the wholesale sector in the American book industry. In contrast to the dominant pattern in other consumer goods indu...

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 8d

About once a year, I get a request for a bagpipe gig that is so bizarre sounding, I wonder if I will live to tell the tale of it later on.

Anyway, it just happened again and of course I said ‘yes.’

Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 8d

True, but it might be interesting to see how that argument develops different you out of geography as a field

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 8d

Looks pretty freaking fire

Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · Aug 7

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 8d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 8d

Greta Thunberg rules. Incredibly brave, righteous leadership and clarity, at an age when my main hobby was smoking weed.

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