Joe Moran
@joemoransblog
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Professor @JMUEnglish and author of Queuing for Beginners, On Roads, Armchair Nation, Shrinking Violets and First You Write a Sentence
Liverpool
Joined April 2010
This is the cover of my book on failure, due out at the end of September. Luckily I didn't fail to write it (but it was a close thing) https://t.co/Z4mLQGYwNP
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Slow on the uptake as usual, but you can now find me with the same handle somewhere else (at https://t.co/41QMIatNEc)
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This is my own contribution to the opening manifesto issue of Public Humanities - on AI, the humanities and the owner of this website -
cambridge.org
Life and Fate and the Public Humanities in the Age of AI - Volume 1
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The open-access journal Public Humanities launches today, welcoming 'of the moment' pieces and contributions to special issues -
cambridge.org
Public Humanities - Zoe Hope Bulaitis, Jeffrey R. Wilson
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Looking forward to talking to Jeff about the brilliant Wild Twin:
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I reviewed Literature for the People by Sarah Harkness here:
the-tls.com
Daniel and Alexander Macmillan are now mostly consigned to brief mentions in biographies of their more famous family member, Harold Macmillan. Sarah
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Here is another piece about my family - this time about my grandad, who died five years before I was born (it's open access): Death of an Irishman: A Speculative Biography
academic.oup.com
In his essay ‘Inventories and Undoings’, the short-story writer Charles Baxter argues that ‘something in the nature of fiction loves inventories and lists’
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Just finished this wonderful book by @jeffyoungwriter about leaving Liverpool and returning to it. It’s out in a couple of weeks.
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I wrote about the science of sleep and the power of the dark (reviewing two books by Annabel Abbs and Kenneth Miller) here
the-tls.com
Human beings are conditioned to fear the dark as a place of danger, devilry and unmeaning. According to a survey quoted in Annabel Abbs’s Sleepless, 40
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A summer double of @TheTLS, featuring C. K. Stead & Kirsty Gunn on Janet Frame; @joemoransblog on sleep science; an extract from @WillEaves’s new book; @CliveSSmith on prison; Peter Kemp on Pat Barker; Praya Agarwal on hypochondria; @irinibus on literary reputations – and more
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To show you what I mean, here is a poem I've made just from things he says in that interview
Richard Hawley has such a poetic turn of phrase in conversation, as this interview shows
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Richard Hawley has such a poetic turn of phrase in conversation, as this interview shows
Richard Hawley: ‘If I stopped what I’m doing the songs would still come’
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I'm always recommending this podcast to students - it's great
I’m late to this but @TheFrankSkinner Poetry Podcast is superb. Warm, accessible, funny but brilliantly knowledgeable and insightful about the poets who are nearly all contemporary. You can also hear me chat to him about it (amongst other things) on @BBCRadio4 Loose Ends tonight
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Nature put on a wonderful display of auroral light last night over Crosby beach as the sky danced with colour. @IronMenCrosby
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My university is advertising fully-funded PhD scholarships with a stipend. If any prospective PhD researchers are interested in working with me in my areas of interest (very broadly defined), please do get in touch
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I reviewed Andy Beckett's The Searchers here: https://t.co/xJzFcLFWDy
theguardian.com
What do the careers of Diane Abbott, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone and John McDonnell tell us about political success?
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I loved this book
It’s my paperback publication day! 🥳🍾 Run to your nearest bookshop! (Also fine to walk, skip, stroll, lumber, slink, sashay, dance, plod — or even order online) @pew_literary @CorsairBooks
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Does anyone else remember a photographic project from maybe 15/20 years ago, where passers-by were photographed smiling at something and then asked what they were smiling about? I thought it might be a Stephen Gill/Jon Ronson collab but can't find anything
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On the spectre haunting the academy: ChatGPT. From a piece I wrote about the future of writing in a content-providing age (open access, link below)
I wrote this critical-creative piece, 'You are not an angel', in the form of a letter to my students, but it's really about how we see writing in an online age. We must write imperfectly like humans, not angels. It's open access.
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