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Sara Marcus

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US literature, sound, culture, disappointment saramarcus.com www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674248656

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🚨 NEW ORDINARY UNHAPPINESS 🚨

we talk with the wonderful @thesaramarcus.bsky.social
about her book Political Disappointment and disappointment as "an untimely desire" that can sustain survival and fuel creativity. plus: campaign songs, our youthful political letdowns, and more!

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If you're in Philly for MLA or live there—or even are passing through for whatever reason—please come to this party celebrating recent books by Peter Coviello, Jonathan Leal, and yours truly! Friday Jan. 5, 4-6 PM, Fergie's Pub (1214 Samson). We'll probably be upstairs.

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Hear me out: a tech tool that lets you beep any library book checked out to you, so you can find it on your shelves when it's due or recalled. Like beeping your parked car or calling your lost phone. Or a teeny GPS tracker so you can map its location. I'm waiting.

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Chicago friends/acquaintances/everybody:
Come to my book event on Monday, Nov. 6, at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore! I'll be talking with Pete Coviello about political disappointment.
www.semcoop.com/event/sara-m...

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I'm coming east this week and next to talk with some wonderful people about political disappointment, transcriptions, sound, intergenerational coalition, and more. Please come on out if you're nearby.

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Reminds me of Audre Lorde in "The Master's Tools," about the white conference organizers saying, "We did not know who to ask"...

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Do not go gentle into that good night

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Sara Marcus's avatar Sara Marcus @thesaramarcus.bsky.social
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I scheduled my COVID booster for last Friday so I could recover all weekend. Then it turned out our insurance didn't cover it yet. My exception came through yesterday, so I got the shot yesterday. Then I taught 4 hours today with chills and body aches. Really hoping tomorrow is better!

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This Tuesday, Sept. 19, I'll be doing an event for Political Disappointment in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with Aida Levy-Hussen, at the Literati bookstore. It's at 6:30. If you have people in A2 or Detroit, please send them over. If you yourself are a person in A2 or Detroit, please come on by.

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Oh cool, I wonder what kinds of records the UAW will start making. Industrial noise, probably.

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Sara Marcus's avatar Sara Marcus @thesaramarcus.bsky.social
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BTW, happy you're here. Has bsky paid you yet for stealing your trademark abbreviation?

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Sara Marcus's avatar Sara Marcus @thesaramarcus.bsky.social
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Was recently wondering this! NW's lawyers must have had a busy couple of weeks when that ms. came in.

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The great Sonnet Retman and I are kicking off the Popular Music Books in Process series tomorrow at 5 PM ET on Zoom, talking about the sounds of political disappointment! Click here for instructions on how to get the Zoom link.
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

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If you've been following the crisis at WVU, where I'm an assistant prof of English, you may know that 1. I, along with many colleagues, will find out next month if we'll be laid off in May 2. WVU's lawyer said they're reading profs' social media. Hi.

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Oh, I was engaged in wishful reading. Maybe message Astra and see if anything is already in citable form?

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& which I haven't read, but will be looking at once it is published

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