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Patricia Ann McNair
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Pens. Coffee. Good journals. World peace. Gritty stories. Science. Democracy. Nutty bars. Cats. Cacti. A few of my favorite things. BOTYA: THE TEMPLE OF AIR. Resident of Spain.
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Feb 10. Detalle del día (más o menos). Puertas y ventanas. #photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography
February 11, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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CALL FOR PITCHES

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.

We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.

Details below!
Close Reading Is For Everyone Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant Call for Pitches Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail? If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step. We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it. Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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Feb 9. Detalle del día (más o menos). Puerta vieja. #photography #details ##Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography
February 9, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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Feb 8. Detalle del día (más o menos). Romeria. #photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography
February 8, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Feb 7. Detalle del día (más o menos). With the house. #photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography
February 7, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Feb 6. Detalle del día (más o menos). Sombra y luz. #photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography
February 6, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Feb 5. Detalle del día (más o menos). Meaty. #photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography
February 5, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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Feb 3. Detalle del día (más o menos). Keeping things warm. #photography #details #Spain #Xátiva
February 3, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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Feb 2. Detalle del día (más o menos). Looking up. #photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography
February 2, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Feb 1. Detalle del día (más o menos). Oro. #photography #details #Spain #Madrid #streetphotography #gold
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Jan 31. Detalle del día (más o menos). Happy Caturday. #photography ##details #Spain #Xàtiva #Caturday #cats #gatos #streetphotography
January 31, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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Jan 30. Detalle del día (más o menos). Shadows and... #photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #shadows #gatos
January 30, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Jan 29. Detalle del día (más o menos). Door of the sun. ##photography #details #Spain #Madrid #streetphotography
January 29, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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Jan 28. Detalle del día (más o menos). Gato. #photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography #gato
January 28, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Jan 27. Detalle del día (más o menos). Arcoíris. #photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography #rainbow
January 27, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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Jan 26. Detalle del día (más o menos). Organic. #photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography
January 26, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Jan 25. Detalle del día (más o menos). Antenna. #photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography
January 25, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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January 25, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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Jan 24. Detalle del día (más o menos). Edificio. #photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography
January 25, 2026 at 7:26 AM
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Jan 22. Detalle del día (más o menos). Café con leche, por fa. ##photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography #coffee
January 22, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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Jan 21. Detalle del día (más o menos). #photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography
January 21, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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Jan 20. Detalle del día (más o menos). Vieja. #photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography
January 20, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Jan 19. Detalle del día (más o menos). Globo. #photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography
January 19, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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Jan 18. Detalle del día (más o menos). Las falleras. #photography #details #Spain #Xàtiva #streetphotography #fallas
January 18, 2026 at 3:58 PM