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Michael Lucey
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Author of "What Proust Heard" & the Misfit Trilogy: "The Misfit of the Family," "Never Say I," "Someone." Throw in some translating, piano, yoga, and cats.
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At last, Michael Warner's compelling Berkeley Tanner Lectures are out there in the world awaiting readers.
Photo showing cover of the book “On the Grid: Climate Change and the Utopia of Green Energy” by Michael Warner. Cover image is a photo of earth at night from outer space where electric usage in Europe, Africa, and parts of Asia is perceptible because of urban illumination.
October 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It’s a Dakota Staton kind of morning as we reacclimate to chilly, gloomy San Francisco.
Photo of two Staton CDs: The Late, Late Show and Dakota at Storyville
August 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A cat with Franciscan leanings in the monastery on the island of Badija near Korčula.
A cat sleeping on a chair The cat on the chair with an altar and statues visible behind it Wider range view of the whole soaring chapel where the cat is sleeping on the chair View of part of the cloister outside the chapel
August 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Thinking of my great uncle Anthony Stipulin here at St. Anthony’s church in the woods on Korčula.
Photo of the path up to the church Me standing in front of the church Round the back of the church Front of the small church nestled in a grove of trees.
July 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The latest issue of Representations is full of great pieces on attending to all different kinds of objects, images, book catalogues, and even attending to attention itself.
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Volume 171 Issue 1 | Representations | University of California Press
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July 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The joys of home
A handsome cat on a daybed with a window behind him dangling one paw rakishly over the edge of the daybed.
May 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Making flash cards today to consolidate declensions in Croatian...
Screen shot of a flash card showing case endings for the Instrumental singular case in Croatian
May 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
online.ucpress.edu/representati... Lots of intriguing reading in the new issue of Reps including a wonderful piece by @drbibliomane.bsky.social
Volume 170 Issue 1 | Representations | University of California Press
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May 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. Congratulations to all these folks! www.gf.org/stories/anno...
Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists
Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.
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April 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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April 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
For those in need of mood enhancement.
April 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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The Life, Old Age and Death of a Working-Class Woman review – a son confronts his mother’s decline
Didier Eribon’s guilt and shame fuels an angry and eloquent meditation on our attitudes towards the elderly and the end of life
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March 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Good news from the LRB Bookstore in London today. Also, copies of the US edition are now out in the world!
Image of the current bestseller list from the LRB bookstore, with Didier Eribon’s book, The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman in the number 1 spot. picture of a box of a few copies of the US edition of Didier Eribon’s book, The Life, Old-Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman
March 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Always important to spend time with friends and acquaintances in Paris, even if them being locked up at night makes close communication challenging. Something also poignant in the way that the Grisette de 1830 and Frédérick Lemaître are forever separated by the unforgiving Rue du Faubourg du Temple.
A nighttime picture of the outdoor statue called La grisette de 1830 in Paris, a young working class woman. The statue is in a park surrounded by greenery and trees. A nighttime picture of the bust of the nineteenth-century actor Frédérick Lemaître in Paris outside in a park with a fence around it.
March 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org
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Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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March 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Coming on March 25 from Allen Lane in the UK and Semiotext(e) in the US — a book by Didier Eribon committed to the struggle for a better world than this one! Just got my translator’s copies today.
Photo of the jacket copy of the English translation of Didier Eribon’s book, The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class woman. Photo of the front cover of The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman
March 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Protect Transgender Athletes ⭑ 5 Calls
On January 14th, the House passed the deceptively-titled Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which is now scheduled for a vote in the Senate. …
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March 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I know it's hard not to be preoccupied with other things, but if you need a distraction, here's a fun forum in the American Book Review on "Listening" organized by Bryan Counter that I contributed to -- a seed planted for an upcoming project...
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Focus: Listening -- Fall 2024 • American Book Review
Focus: Listening Volume 45, Number 3 Fall 2024 Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers. From the Editor Worlding Literature by Jeffrey Di Leo Fo...
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February 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:
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I go to @timothysnyder.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for historical perspective and contemporary context about the dystopia we're experiencing. Snyder's post today has both, plus real actionable guidance. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
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February 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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January 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I've been published in the journal that bears the name of my field for the first time! Better late than never...Thanks to @fauxneem.bsky.social Michael Allan and his team! I don't think the issue is up on line yet, but once it is I'll be happy to share a pdf with anyone who's interested....
Photograph of the table of contents of Vol. 76, Number 4 of the journal Comparative Literature. Photo of the first page of an article by Michael Lucey called "Translation and Polylanguaging: Sexuality and Novels from James Baldwin to Mohamed Mbougar Sarr."
December 4, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Just because…
November 27, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Regular cat pic posts seem to be what is called for. Here are Sir Rory and Mr. Willoughby being exemplary.
An orange tabby kitten and a full grown Tonkinese cat on a messy unmade bed with front paws intertwined and heads resting against each other, both half asleep.
November 18, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Parisian pavlova. Reasonable reward for a reasonably productive trip.
October 22, 2024 at 10:16 PM
The first of three papers I have appearing this fall is on Proust and understanding music. It began as a paper for the NYU "Fugitive Proust" conference. Here it is in an issue of Textual Practice of papers from the conference. A sketch of part of a book to come...
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Understanding ‘understanding music’ in Proust
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September 28, 2024 at 11:29 PM