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Jonathan Emmesedi<p>Speaking of Fitzgerald, here is a link to one of his finest short stories, "Babylon Revisited":</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.net.au/fsf/BABYLON-REVISITED.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gutenberg.net.au/fsf/BABYLON-R</span><span class="invisible">EVISITED.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/FScottFitzgerald" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FScottFitzgerald</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Fitzgerald" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fitzgerald</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/USLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USLiterature</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/ShortStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShortStories</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BabylonRevisited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BabylonRevisited</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/20thCenturyLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>20thCenturyLiterature</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/20thCenturyLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>20thCenturyLiterature</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a></p>
Jonathan Emmesedi<p>Purge your mind of jazz age cliches and then reread...</p><p><a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/01/how-we-misread-the-great-gatsby" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newstatesman.com/culture/books</span><span class="invisible">/2025/01/how-we-misread-the-great-gatsby</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/TheGreatGatsby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheGreatGatsby</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FScottFitzgerald" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FScottFitzgerald</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fitzgerald" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fitzgerald</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/USLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/20thCenturyLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>20thCenturyLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/1920s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1920s</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a></p>
Cindy Weinstein<p>I can't believe it was 12 years ago that Chris Looby and I edited American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions. The essays really hold up -- Eric Lott on the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Carpenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Carpenters</span></a>, Trish Loughran on <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Melville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Melville</span></a>, to name just two of the many excellent contributions. On December 2, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> UP is having a 50% sale on all books (discount code CYBER) , including mine and Chris's, and 70% on selected others (discount code 70OFF).</p><p>Check out Columbia's terrific list!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/USLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USLiterature</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Litstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Litstudies</span></a></p>
Cindy Weinstein<p>I can't believe it was 12 years ago that Chris Looby and I edited American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions. The essays really hold up -- Eric Lott on the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Carpenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Carpenters</span></a>, Trish Loughran on <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Melville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Melville</span></a>, to name just two of the many excellent contributions. On December 2, Columbia UP is having a 50% sale on all books (discount code CYBER) , including mine and Chris's, and 70% on selected others (discount code 70OFF).</p><p>Check out Columbia's terrific list!</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/USLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USLiterature</span></a><br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Litstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Litstudies</span></a></p>
Al Jazeera (unofficial)Attempted book bans and restrictions at school and public libraries are surging in the United States and set a record in 2022, according to the American Libr...<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CV6iM1mKUM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">US saw record book-banning efforts in 2022, library group says</a>
Cindy Weinstein<p>These <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/paperbacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paperbacks</span></a> arrived today! They're both about <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>time</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/USliterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USliterature</span></a>. My monograph starts w/#CharlesBrockdenBrown and ends w/#EdwardP.Jones. W/chapters in between on <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Poe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poe</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ElizabethStuartPhelps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethStuartPhelps</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Dreiser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dreiser</span></a>. A different through-line, to be sure. The <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/edited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>edited</span></a> volume has outstanding chapters by many of the best <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/literarycritics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literarycritics</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Looby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Looby</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Tucker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tucker</span></a>'s The Partisan Leader, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Goble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Goble</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DeLillo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeLillo</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Spires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spires</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> serial fiction, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Hale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hale</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Faulkner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Faulkner</span></a>. And more. Cost w/CUP discount, ~23.00 each.</p>
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