Bruce Holsinger
@bruceholsinger
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Author of THE GIFTED SCHOOL and THE DISPLACEMENTS, from @riverheadbooks Editor @newlithist
Joined January 2012
I just want to make clear that I did not bribe any coaches or admissions officers at the Wall Street Journal for this headline.
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A bit of novel research: pls tell me if you get this reference. Don't identify it, just a yes or no, but say your age if you're comfortable doing that. "If you build it, they will come.".
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Holy shit just now on This Week, Bernie Sanders:. Interviewer: Would you name a woman as a running mate?.Bernie: I would give very serious consideration to that. Interviewer: A person of color?.Bernie [long, bizarre pause]. It's too premature to talk about that.
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I want to name the cats in this novel after your cat. Tell me, please, the name of your cat.
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A #BlackLivesMatter protest and #PlannedParenthood clinic shot up by right-wing Christian white men. But refugees are the terrorism threat.
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Trump is golfing in Florida and Pence is skiing in Vail, both of them endangering hundreds of Secret Service agents, staffers, hotel employees, etc. as tens of millions are evicted, lose unemployment compensation, stay home to keep others healthy. Sick.
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Hearts are breaking across Texas for Ivanka and Jared today.
A NYC friend of Jared & Ivanka says they miss the city, & that DC “punctures their self-esteem on a daily basis.”
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My 86 y.o. dad today, serving me a plate of thin mints and a cup of coffee: "Yeah, I've bought at least two or three boxes of these things every year since that time James Dobson called the Girl Scouts a breeding ground for lesbians.".
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I mean, imagine being @JeffreyToobin and waking up to realize you're the Greek chorus in the best video ever posted on Twitter.
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Final cover, title, and pub date: ON PARCHMENT: ANIMALS, ARCHIVES, AND THE MAKING OF CULTURE FROM HERODOTUS TO THE DIGITAL AGE, coming February 21, 2023 from @YaleBooks Could not be more grateful to everyone who has helped bring this book into the world!!!
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This one is AMAZING. "My wife" did his paleography for him: transcribed, edited, and corrected from 16th-c. editions. #ThanksForTyping
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A peek at an archive of women's academic labor: wives thanked for typing their husbands' manuscripts. 1/5 #ThanksForTyping @TheMedievalDrK
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One of the reasons the Black Death was so much deadlier than modern plagues is that feudalism taught medieval people they could Dance of Death to the edge of the flat earth wearing a chastity belt on the head of a pin to avoid burning witches since no one was an individual yet.
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If you're tenured at an R1 institution and you characterize manuscript reviewing for a journal and serving on a professional org committee as forms of "uncompensated labor" you may want to introspect a bit.
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Asked a worker outside Whole Foods what % of customers refuse mask. Response: “Oh, probably two out of 10. And know what? Almost every one of them is a white middle-aged heterosexual male. No offense.” None taken. #WearAMask assholes.
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@jodipicoult @chelseabwrites Once, at Tucson Festival of Books, I was at a signing table right next to the signing table of Diana Gabaldon, whose line stretched miles. Two people came to my table, one to get me to sign a copy of my book (yay!), the other to ask if I was Diana Gabaldon's agent.
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“In-law wine should cost no more than $8 a bottle.”. -guy in the wine shop just now.
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@Lawrence @KBAndersen English professor here. I guarantee that text has never been assigned to undergraduates. Sorry to complicate things with facts.
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@marc_laidlaw @RealityInc Note that my books are self-published. And then the murders began.
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That this is not parody continues to blow my mind.
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Christ. This is a US senator!
If Hillary was President, Putin would be actively trying to undermine the USA. It is not about Trump or Clinton but Russia vs USA.
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There are 3.7 million K-12 teachers in the US. At current pace all could be vaccinated in two days. How is this even in question?.
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The guys get titles, degrees, honorifics. The wife gets "My wife" and a fuckload of work. #ThanksForTyping
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Striking difference between the front page of the print NYT today (which almost no one will see) vs. what's currently online (which millions will see). Here's the print version:
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Proofs!!! Cannot handle how beautifully the typesetters and page designers have rendered this book. So grateful to everyone at @YaleBooks
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@d_haggar @EmilyVanDuyne ". and I say that as someone who worked on a sitcom with Charlie Sheen" should go at the end of every tweet.
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A Muslim attacks in Paris with a machete, no one killed, prez goes apeshit. A white guy in Quebec kills six Muslims, injures dozens, nada.
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@john_boyne If you wrote a novel about a brain surgeon and asked a brain surgeon to read it, and she corrected a bunch of your errors and points of ignorance about brain surgery, would that be "sanitization" too?.
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Some publishing news! I've been working on this book for over ten years and I'm so thrilled it's found a great home at Yale University Press, and a brilliant editor in @jenniferabanks. Animals, archives, science, theology, and @ 150 color plates. Should be out early next year.
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@amconmag There are peanut butter sandwiches with far, far more peanut butter in them than other peanut butter sandwiches. So what do we call the first kind of peanut butter sandwich?.
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He said it! He said it! "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?" The #ComeyHearing has achieved the medieval sublime. #medievaltwitter.
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My mom died in January, my father is 84, and I haven't been able to hug him since March. Here's Dianne Feinstein (87) hugging covid-untested Lindsey Graham. Makes me ill.
If you want to know how the Barrett hearings went for Democrats, consider this hug.
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Academic writing hack: if you're stuck in the middle of a paragraph, type "the contingencies of" and keep going.
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I love hearing people say "the Southern District of New York." The phrase has become oddly erotic.
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The unnamed wife who typed the manuscript FIFTEEN FOOKIN TIMES, and the named editor. #ThanksForTyping
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Publication day in the Middle Ages must have been such a letdown. "My book is out! You can read it next year when Rolo finishes his interlinear glossing. They're doing a scribe run of ten copies so I'm pretty pumped.".
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At the RSA, mid-lobby, deep in enemy territory. Early modernists abjecting the medieval all around me, infantilizing my millennium at every turn. Just heard somebody bragging about inventing the individual, another about rediscovering Virgil and Ovid. It's not easy out here.
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This. should be disqualifying.
NYC Mayoral Frontrunner Eric Adams: “With new technology you don’t need school children to be in a school building with a number of teachers. It’s just the opposite. You could have one teacher teach 300-400 students.”
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@ingridoliver100 This is the beginning of a great thriller. the innocuous banana toast, the dark intentions beneath.
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Our younger son is a second-year student here--he texted at 3am to say he's okay, sheltering in place at his apartment. Shooter still at large. I am so sickened and terrified for our students, staff, and faculty.
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I did not. Have. Telephonic. Relations. With that indicted man. Mr. Parnas.
Hannity: Did you ever talk to this guy Lev Parnas?. Devin Nunes: You know it’s possible but I haven’t gone through all my phone records. I don’t really recall that name.
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This is a senior ABC news correspondent asking maybe the dumbest set of questions in the history of Twitter. It's not a beauty contest. It's a pandemic. Do better.
Do you think this is a good look for a President of the United States?. Or do you think this is a bad look for a President of the United States?
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@emilypothast @TheTattooedProf In some ways it’s even more insidious than that. “Have died” is an active construction that implies the Palestinians were agents in their own death while also killing Israelis.
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I'm convinced there's a whole subculture of business guys who call each other while on trains and in airports and coffee shops just to have loud important-sounding phone calls. Maybe it's an app? An AI who gets them talking about walk-backs and best practices and deliverables?.
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It lives! The first finished copy of ON PARCHMENT, out from @yalepress @YaleBooks on February 21 but currently palpable at the MLA booth.
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"How My MBA Helped Crack the Voynich Manuscript": A thread. 1/.
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I am hereby swearing a blood oath to all that is twitter that I did not make this up. #ThanksForTyping
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Thrilled to announce this at last!! A tenure-track position in medieval literature and culture in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. Application link in the replies to avoid algorithmic malfeasance. Will soon be posted on MLA list, etc. #MedievalTwitter
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pro tip: close your Wikipedia tabs before your Zoom lecture.
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This should be the fate of every parking lot on earth.
Six Flags Magic Mountain will turn its 30-acre parking lot into a solar farm. The 12-megawatt solar carport energy structure will be installed over the visitor and employee parking lot, providing shade for visitors' cars. 1/3
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Reporter: Thought I'd write about Southwest Missouri State and the challenge of--. Editor: Make it Harvard. Report: But the idea is to--. Editor: Readers need to know about Harvard. Reporter: We've had lots of stories about Harv--. Editor: Harvard.
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"A worschepful doctowr of dyuynite" - Margery Kempe."Thei founden him in the temple, sittinge in the myddil of doctours" - the Wycliffite Bible."The holy doctour Augustyn." - Chaucer."Of þis matere I myȝte. fynde fele witnesses amonges þe foure doctours." - William Langland
@FernRiddell At one time, the English used to avoid the use of the title 'doctor'; unless the person was actually a physician. We will soon be as bad as the Germans once were, with every minor academic insisting on being addressed as 'Herr Doktor'! It's an alarming prospect.
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Publication day. From The New York Times:. "The novel’s laser focus is on our present moment, and reading 'The Displacements' is like bingeing a monthslong news cycle in six hours. a thorough translation to fiction of what it can feel like to live right now. It’s hypnotic."
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Where is my "Jared and Ivanka secretly believe all votes should be counted" NYT piece from Maggie Haberman?.
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This tweet was posted in *2010*.
Stanford study: Western N. America should expect unprecedented heat waves by the 2020s; blistering heat by 2030s. http://bit.ly/ac5llq.
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THREAD: For #AcademicTwitter an urgent action need today: if the Alaska state legislature doesn't override the governor's veto of a funding cut, the entire U of Alaska system will be in jeopardy, including the mass firing of full-time faculty, both tenured and non-tenured. 1/.
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Writing for image permissions is so eye opening. You get very stern injunctions from some archives charging you $250 for a quarter-page reproduction. Others write you back baffled that any library would charge to use their images, let alone your own shots of their stuff.
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All I want is the freedom to go places where no one is carrying a gun and everyone is vaccinated.
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and we have a cover! Thanks to everyone at @riverheadbooks and @penguinrandom for the hard work on this book so far. Out in just over seven months.
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For old-timers: when/what year did you stop using floppy disks? Not the truly floppy ones, but the rigid 3 and 1/2-inch kind like this. Late 90s? Early 00s? I have no idea.
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It is ASTONISHING that we're reading about this in a book in July instead of hearing about it in Congressional testimony in, like, February. The Democrats are so, so weak. Why have a majority at all?.
The nation’s top military leaders discussed a plan to resign one by one rather than carry out dangerous orders in the event of an attempted coup by then-President Donald Trump and his allies after the November election, new book reveals
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@RichLowry People like you will say the same b.s. about Donald Trump when he dies and it will be equally untrue. Limbaugh was the embodiment of cruelty.
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I want to start a $10M gofundme for everyone who cooks food, washes dishes, guards entrances, vacuums floors, unclogs drains, repaints woodwork, etc. at the White House so they can go on strike until this is over.
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My next dissertation will be titled "This Guy's Flock of Typists and the Marital Politics of Domestic Pedantry" #ThanksForTyping
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The worst place in New York is where you were standing when you had to read this tweet.
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You've dreamed your whole life of starting a winery. It's about to open, and you sit around with your friends deciding what to call your wine. You decide on the word for a Black Death plague pustule.
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@AlexKnoxGOP @NikkiHaley Why would you endanger yourself, your family, and the others in that room???.
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When I started running a bath Biden was down 200,000 votes in Michigan. When I got out, he was up about 40,000. Everyone, take a bath.
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I absolutely love this thread. An academic must-read. RT like mad.
A few weeks ago, I Tweeted about wanting academia to stop focusing exclusively on the exceptional outliers (esp. in grad programs).
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A sublime tweet. A mansplainer mansplaining the act of mansplaining to correct a woman explaining mansplaining to mansplainers.
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Very depressing discussion on pandemic pedagogy FB group--strong consensus seems to be that fall 2020 and likely spring 2021 semesters will be all online.
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An incredible feeling to wake up on pub day and find a review like this in @nytimesbooks (not linking so you don't have to see my face--use this if you want to read: ). So, so grateful!
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We need to start calling this what it is: wide-scale and irreversible human habitat collapse. It's been happening in many parts of the world for years.
This dangerous heat wave and the building collapse in Miami should be enough for a sane country to push for a big and bold infrastructure bill that includes combating climate change but. .
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It gets multi-generational too! Unnamed wives, unnamed daughters, men who don't know how to type.
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I just attended a 90-person Zoom reading group where we read and discussed @ 20 lines of a 14th-century poem together--en masse, in breakouts, and in a spectacular chat--and it was one of the highlights of my year. So grateful to @PiersatPenn and fellow participants.
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