John Havard
@johnhavard.bsky.social
"Disaffected Parties (OUP, 2019) | "Late Romanticism and the End of Politics" (CUP, 2023) | "The Last Man" by Mary Shelley, foreword Rebecca Solnit | Next: Austen, Byron, Ali Smith, Brexit Aesthetics, Policing | Brit in NYC | @johnowen82 www.johnhavard.me
...so it will be very interesting how the parents of the many students, from all kinds of backgrounds, with such high school learning plans respond to Trump's proposed dismantling of the Department of Education!
January 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
...so it will be very interesting how the parents of the many students, from all kinds of backgrounds, with such high school learning plans respond to Trump's proposed dismantling of the Department of Education!
Great point. Rather than privates being at an unfair advantage, state students are at an unfair disadvantage. As far as the U.S. goes, I can only comment on my large state Uni, where students from all kinds of backgrounds come in with disability (etc) accommodations dating from high school plans...
January 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Great point. Rather than privates being at an unfair advantage, state students are at an unfair disadvantage. As far as the U.S. goes, I can only comment on my large state Uni, where students from all kinds of backgrounds come in with disability (etc) accommodations dating from high school plans...
The Harris campaign have blamed the timeline and seem to think they did nothing wrong and that she was a great candidate...
January 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The Harris campaign have blamed the timeline and seem to think they did nothing wrong and that she was a great candidate...
To be honest, even before I knew what we now all know about her, it always struck me as a little odd to describe Alice Munro as a “feminist” writer. Like a liability of fiction’s interpretive capaciousness.
January 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
That said, she was sometimes obligated to write on the stairs. I am sure the women with no financial independence who escaped abusive situations to protect their children will be sympathetic, such are the common struggles faced by all Women.
January 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
That said, she was sometimes obligated to write on the stairs. I am sure the women with no financial independence who escaped abusive situations to protect their children will be sympathetic, such are the common struggles faced by all Women.
I won't walk out of a bar if it is playing Michael Jackson (a predatory child molester, if you believe the survivors, whose abuse *was also enabled by and not incidental to* the art and its self-mythology). I wouldn't take Munro off a syllabus. I don't know if I'll ever open one of her books again.
January 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I won't walk out of a bar if it is playing Michael Jackson (a predatory child molester, if you believe the survivors, whose abuse *was also enabled by and not incidental to* the art and its self-mythology). I wouldn't take Munro off a syllabus. I don't know if I'll ever open one of her books again.
At times she sounds a bit psychotic, which she also wrote about (see "Dimension," raising the question of whether psychopaths can write about psychopaths, which presumably they can, since the psychopath in that story writes to the mother of their child, who he has killed, about being a psychopath).
January 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
At times she sounds a bit psychotic, which she also wrote about (see "Dimension," raising the question of whether psychopaths can write about psychopaths, which presumably they can, since the psychopath in that story writes to the mother of their child, who he has killed, about being a psychopath).
The point is not just that she wasn't a sprightly Canadian lady with a twinkle in her eye. It's that she ultimately folded this depravity into her personal self-mythology. She made it inseparable from the art. She used people as fodder, as content. Her own children, my god.
January 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The point is not just that she wasn't a sprightly Canadian lady with a twinkle in her eye. It's that she ultimately folded this depravity into her personal self-mythology. She made it inseparable from the art. She used people as fodder, as content. Her own children, my god.
That said, I never had any personal attachment to Alice Munro, beyond a vague feeling that I might not enjoy having her as a neighbor.
January 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
That said, I never had any personal attachment to Alice Munro, beyond a vague feeling that I might not enjoy having her as a neighbor.
(Reading the article whose online title is "Alice Munro's Passive Voice" and whose print title is "You Won't Get Free Of It." I would have been fine with "The Monstrosity of Alice Munro.")
January 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
(Reading the article whose online title is "Alice Munro's Passive Voice" and whose print title is "You Won't Get Free Of It." I would have been fine with "The Monstrosity of Alice Munro.")
That’s Gavin and that Stacey and that’s Nessa and that’s Smithie (James Corden, who I once observed serially eating three hamburgers).
December 25, 2024 at 9:23 PM
That’s Gavin and that Stacey and that’s Nessa and that’s Smithie (James Corden, who I once observed serially eating three hamburgers).
X, Threads, Facebook being the other three. I remain very active on Instagram @johnowen82
December 4, 2024 at 2:36 AM
X, Threads, Facebook being the other three. I remain very active on Instagram @johnowen82
Frank O’Hara, our great poet of the Troubles.
November 26, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Frank O’Hara, our great poet of the Troubles.
I just binged “Say Nothing” ask me anything about the history of Northern Ireland.
November 26, 2024 at 2:58 PM
I just binged “Say Nothing” ask me anything about the history of Northern Ireland.