Author, *Progressivism's Aesthetic Education*: https://xitter.cf/t.co/tgE07muI8T --- Chicago Writing gallery at @AWMuseum -- teaching -- working on a book about Chicago
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Hello academic twitter – it’s time for some belated self-promotion for *Progressivism’s Aesthetic Education*. Please read on if you’re interested in the bildungsroman, the history of American schooling, pragmatist aesthetics, or Progressive Era US literature.
We've been doing poetry on 7/4 for years now and have exhausted all the beautiful trenchant statements. Gotta get into the weird shit now, like this Sherwood Anderson poem about the US entering WWI.
As our family gets deeper and deeper into our classic Hollywood musicals phase, the risk of being surprised by a fifteen-minute Busby Berkeley blackface number seems to grow exponentially
Instead of watching the debate I got sucked into a conversation with an acquaintance who worked on prep cooking for the food in The Bear. Most TV food is fake, but they use real Kobe beef and stuff on The Bear! Also I gather that this country is fucked!
This van in the Promontory Point parking lot just got totally destroyed by fireworks going off in the back seat. Summer is here!
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In 1899 Lorado Taft unveiled his Nymph Fountain just south of the Art Institute. Made of plaster, but intended to be cast in bronze for a permanent installation. But it was too sexy, and Chicago's citizens destroyed it, mutilating every single Nymph. forgottenchicago.com/feature…
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NEW: Wikipedia editors declare the ADL "unreliable" and ban the use of the ADL as a source on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A ban on the ADL as a source on antisemitism expected next. jta.org/2024/06/18/united-st…
TIL: George Herbert Walker Bush was named after George Herbert, the 17th century poet. Ergo the George in George W. Bush is also the George in George Herbert.
I'm offering another summer course on early Chicago literature, this time through StoryStudio! In collaboration with the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.
We do need to hit our enrollment target to run the course, so please spread the word.
Details below ...
... did you know that Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton agency, wrote crime fiction? That the Haymarket anarchists published poetry, in English and German? That there was a bestselling novel about the Great Chicago Fire?
We'll cover these topics in this six week course.
ALA folks: I'll be talking about Sherwood Anderson, Poetry magazine, and the idea of "Western" literature tomorrow morning at 8:30 in Salon 6. With Ross Tangedal and Doug Sheldon. Come on over!
Next up in my project of "reading any physical book that a friend hands to me" (limit one per friend per year)
I'll be presenting at the American Literature Association conference this Friday on Sherwood Anderson's *Mid-American Chants*, Poetry magazine, and the Chicago roots of the idea of "Western literature." See some of you there??
Chicago Shakespeare Theater is doing Henry V next season -- the play about whether war crimes are cool or not. I'm definitely gonna see it, and already getting stressed out about the chitchat I'll overhear during intermission.
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let her back in the sign
Michigan woman kicked out after police discover she had been living inside grocery store sign for a year: report bit.ly/3Wtt9rl Authorities say the woman had a job, access to a car, but simply just lived inside the sign.
I've been added to the school photo sharing app for some unrelated Raber family's kid and I can't get anyone to remove me. Now being bombarded with photos of some other kindergartner, living what seems to be a parallel life to my own kid's. Feels like a Black Mirror setup ...