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Mike Smith, PhD; can mend existential wounds only

@MikeAASmith

Pluralist. Grantmaking w/ The Fine Foundation | Board @PAHumanities | Part of the worshipping faithful | Proud Dad | Containing Whitmaniacal multitudes

 Pittsburgh by way of Boston
Joined August 2009
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An American / is a complex of occasions, / themselves a geometry / of spatial nature. - Charles Olson
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Anyone on Bluesky yet? (Is that verboten to say here?)
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The New York Times
@nytimes13 Jun 2023
Cormac McCarthy, whose raggedly ornate early novels about misfits and grotesques gave way to the lush taciturnity of “All the Pretty Horses” and the apocalyptic minimalism of “The Road,” died on Tuesday. He was 89. nyti.ms/3P9awoQ
The writer Cormac McCarthy is photographed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 12, 2014. A headline reads: Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of ‘The Road,’ Is Dead at 89. Photo by Beowulf Sheehan

ALT The writer Cormac McCarthy is photographed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 12, 2014. A headline reads: Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of ‘The Road,’ 
Is Dead at 89. Photo by Beowulf Sheehan

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Solidarity for the Jewish community and Tree of Life @1027Healing post-gazette.com/local/city/…
A new way for Pittsburgh to show solidarity during the synagogue shooting trial

A new way for Pittsburgh to show solidarity during the synagogue shooting trial

As jury selection in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial nears the end of its first week, community members have launched a way for people in the city and beyond to show their support for the...

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Stellar reporting here
David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) profile pictureDavid Fahrenthold
@Fahrenthold15 May 2023
A group of nonprofits raised $89M to help cops, veterans & firefighters. What happened to the $? They obscured the answer by breaking it into 135,000 pieces: a blizzard of tiny transactions, routed thru addresses in 10 states. We found it, anyway. nytimes.com/interactive/2023…
How to Raise $89 Million in Small Donations, and Make It Disappear (Published 2023)

How to Raise $89 Million in Small Donations, and Make It Disappear (Published 2023)

A group of conservative operatives using sophisticated robocalls raised millions of dollars from donors using pro-police and pro-veteran messages. But instead of using the money to promote issues and...

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🚨 Altac Jobs LLC@AltacJobs11 May 2023
JOB - Community Programs Manager - PA Humanities - Philadelphia, PA "experience developing people-centered programming & events" 💵$70-$75K #altac #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #humanities #phdchat #adjunct #postdoc #hiring linkedin.com/jobs/view/36030…

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Today’s top 6,000+ Visual Arts Teacher jobs in United States. Leverage your professional network, and get hired. New Visual Arts Teacher jobs added daily.

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Just published: my interview with Bertrand Westphal in SJU's Humanities Review! stjenglish.com/wp-content/up… #geocriticism #placemaking
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Discourse shapes places; see: trains!
Prof. Brian Keating (@Briankeating) profile pictureProf. Brian Keating
@Briankeating20 Apr 2023
Your PhD thesis in five words. Go!
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CFP: Seeking grad students with fledgling/ongoing/tricky/exciting public humanities projects for the second iteration of MLA's Public Humanities Incubator: lnkd.in/eHxxdBWu The deadline is 6/30! @janineutell @MLAnews

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He is Risen!
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Today my wife has officially out-lived Lord Byron, so I got her a cake.
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Heartbreaking and masterful reporting by @elisaslow and @heislerphoto nytimes.com/2023/03/19/us/ph…
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Re-upping my call for participants, since there's a week and a half left to send me your bio! Geocritics, literary cartographers, scholars of the Spatial Turn, placemaking experts(?), please join us mla.confex.com/mla/2024/webp… @MLAnews
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Chris Pine is One of Us esquire.com/entertainment/bo…
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Phenomenal. Life in the Iron Mills as a 16th seed is rough, and if it weren't for just re-watching Ken Burns' The Civil War, I'd be tempted to slot in an upset.
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Also, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle wins the NIT, yeah?
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"There is always a danger in reading Calvino straight. Can love—of people, of books—be this widely distributed and intense?" I devoured Calvino stories in my early 20s and only now realize that I've been futilely chasing that danger for 15 years.
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The most thorough summary of the East Palestine train derailment's effect on air and water quality in Allegheny county. kudos @RyanDeto triblive.com/local/regional/…
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Suzanne Nossel@SuzanneNossel18 Feb 2023
At @PENamerica we are alarmed at news of "hundreds of changes" to venerated works by @roald_dahl in a purported effort to scrub the books of that which might offend someone. 1/13 theguardian.com/books/2023/f…
Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive

Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive

Augustus Gloop now ‘enormous’ instead of ‘fat’, Mrs Twit no longer ‘ugly’ and Oompa Loompas are gender neutral

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