Mitch R. Murray
@mitchrmurray
Literature and sci fi scholar Contributing editor, ASAP/Review Host, Less Worse podcast,
You can read my "Undead Academia: On the Campus Novel of Decline" at muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/issue... It's about how autofictional tendencies take root in the ruins of the university and how horror/campus novels by Percival Everett and Ling Ma meet that moment DM/email for a pdf if you lack access
New essay on Everett’s The Trees, Ma’s Severance, and why autofiction sucks just dropped
Friends, I have stopped reading Ben Lerner’s new novel to read Douglas Stuart’s, and you can too
Best part of parents visiting is they drop off your old Pokémon cards
TEACHING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE: ESSAYS FROM THE CLASSROOM Officially under contract and coming in 2028! It's a monster volume: 33 teacher-scholars from around the world writing provocative, shortform essays in the service of pedagogy
Yesterday, I recorded the first episode of Less Worse, an academic podcast about why the future sucks and how it could be better. Featuring @aprilanson.bsky.social and @williamcallison.bsky.social and dropping… soon (still have a lot to learn about editing)
Happening today at 5:30 - 7:00 PM: "After Sustainability: Climate Change and Authoritarianism" w/ @aprilanson.bsky.social and @williamcallison.bsky.social. Use link or QR code for live stream: mediasite.mms.rpi.edu/mediasite/Pl...
Happening in Troy, NY next month! If you are in the NY capital region, this event on climate change and ecofascism at Rensselaer Polytechnic is open to the public. RSVP here: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/1z8jiVQmjq
New years eve 1999. (Finally got this on DVD. How is this banger not more widely available!?)
I need to know what is up with this genre of spine on books lately!
Please pray for me. This is the end of my tumeric I brought to NY from Your Dekalb Farmer's Market in Decatur
Ayo, I been on Bitch, pap-illon, King Charles tints on Blenheim prints on
UF fires its entire DEI office--via email. Just disgusting levels of evil.
Reading and loving @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's amazing new book, "IG FICTION"
Apologizing to all the other books I need to read but I don't really mean it
Submissions to @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social and my "Forgotten Forms" due Sept. 30!