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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 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/

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Seems like this essay I’m writing on 1920s consumption culture is forcing me to look up a bunch of Prohibition-era cocktail manuals to see what kind of mixers were used, oh shucky shuck shucks 🍸

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I want to read a big-ass book so I don’t have to entertain the question of “What should I read next?” for like at least a month.

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Today's #WaferThinBook (Foodie edition): Serve It Forth by M. F. K. Fisher (1937, 145p.)
Fisher's first book, which established her unique voice as a food writer—opinionated, worldly, richly historical, never too self-important.

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And I’ve already read Infinite Jest twice so it can’t be that

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What’s a book I can read in public that says “Leave me the fuck alone”?

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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

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What if I told you I wrote 2k words today then quit and charged off to the closest swimming hole?

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I just learned the phrase “public pricing” — as in the alternative to individual *surveillance pricing,* where we all pay different prices for consumer goods based on our personal data + consumption behaviors — and now I’m upset.

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Now that’s he’s dead, I’m glad we can all agree that Donald Sutherland was fine af, and that the NY Times was wrong about this as they are about so many other things

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Academic job season is here once again so here is my top tip for success when searching for a TT job! -Take one hair from the Pope’s head -Steep in lukewarm bird milk 24hrs -Strain through silken gown -Add powdered unicorn spleen -Use mixture to anoint the feet of the dean -Send a thank you note

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I haven’t had mail delivery for almost a week due to “low staffing” and maybe it’s just me, but it kind of feels like our institutions aren’t functioning all that well these days

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did you know there used to be writers where that was their whole job

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A happy Father's Day to all who celebrate

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Whitman defending his efforts to make the reader feel “heroically naked.”

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No, literally, “screw inflation”

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The Restoration Hardware catalog is proclaiming “Screw Inflation” in an ad for a $12k couch, what a world

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No way. Nobody’s born in Crosby. (Except my darling of a former student and now life-long friend, who somehow was!)

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Used to live there; can also confirm.

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Something we don’t talk about enough is the fact that Jay Gatsby is secretly from North Dakota and how this is actually the key to understanding everything that happens in the novel.

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I know that feeling well from living in ND. It felt like a miracle when we got a show that was worth seeing there (though that did occasionally happen).

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I’m glad to hear that! But as the article points out, if nostalgia acts are currently the only ones selling tickets, the next generation will have no nostalgia acts to patronize in the future.

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Which is not to say it’s Gen Z’s fault that an atomized state of modern existence has reduced music to a mere soundtrack to other activities that gets exclusively consumed through headphones, thus rendering the idea of live performance itself incomprehensible.

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Millennials get blamed for killing off stuff nobody liked or wanted in the first place, like Applebees, but at least they can’t blame us for killing off live music.

That’s on Gen Z.

www.theguardian.com/music/articl...

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Abolish summer colds. Pretty please. 🤒

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Already sent out 3 “Where’s the money, Lebowski??” emails today.

Fun fact: if you’re a freelancer working with NYC-based presses / publishers, you’re supposed to be paid for freelance work within 30 days of its completion! It’s the law, & you can report violations:

www.nyc.gov/site/dca/wor...

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A little solidarity, as a treat, would be cool, yes.

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One of the more toxic traits of the modern neoliberal university is the tendency for disciplines to dunk on other disciplines. In other words, the anti-intellectualism is coming from inside the house.

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I like the sounds of your un-system!

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Do you teach students how and why to take notes? I do not, but a friend just asked me to explain how and why I take notes on stuff I’m reading and, in the process of explaining, I realized no one ever taught me to do this, I just screwed around and eventually cobbled together a system.

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Glad I refrained from sending the “HELLO … IS THIS THING ON????” email. That can probably wait until Monday.

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Was annoyed that I hadn’t received a reply to an email I sent ages ago. Checked my drafts folder. I sent it *yesterday morning* — it just feels like I sent it ages ago because this week has been AN EFFING WEEK. Also because I need an answer.

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No, it should be the reverse: wage growth has failed to keep up with productivity. But who can afford copyeditors in this economy!

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AI is being sold to us as the answer to the problem of worker productivity. But as the new Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows, productivity is *not* the problem.

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