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MLA and Book Reviews
MLA 2020 went well. I gave my presentation on Mark Twain’s “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” and got to connnect/re-connect with a lot of great scholars. University of Iowa Press was gracious enough to allow me to display Gears and God … Continue reading
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The Replacements: “Live and Drunk” at 35
Thirty-five years ago, the Replacements performed one of rock music’s most brilliant acts of artistic sabotage. In 1984, the Minneapolis-based band was receiving accolades in the press. Music fans discussed when (not if) they’d move to a major label and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12/9/84, 1984, Bill Sullivan, Bob Mehr, Bob Stinson, CBGB, December 9, Live and Drunk, New York, Paul Westerberg, The Replacements, Tour, Trouble Boys
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C19 Presentation on Steampunk
I learned this week that my proposed presentation, “The Pros and Cons of Steampunking a C19 Syllabus,” was accepted for the C19 (Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists) 2020 Conference. The presentation will be part of the “Teaching the Weird Nineteenth Century” … Continue reading
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Tagged C19, c19 conference, steampunk, Teaching the Weird Nineteenth Century
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Minor Updates: Writing & Teaching
October is always a busy month that starts with a birthday and ends with Halloween. Not having any major news doesn’t mean I’m not really busy. To wit: Drafting paper for MLA presentation on Twain’s love of sea adventure fiction. … Continue reading
Go Country, Young Man (90s Music Nostalgia)
The Ken Burns-produced Country Music documentary that premiered on PBS last week is predictably great. It’s also giving me fits of nostalgia remembering the time I tried to be an “alternative country” singer. It was a very late-1990’s thing to … Continue reading
Twain Trip and Strange Stars Review
I’ll have at least one more research trip to the Mark Twain Papers in Berkeley between now and December (before I present at MLA on Twain’s love of sea adventure novels). I’m hoping to work a Bay-area bookstore appearance in … Continue reading
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Tagged David Bowie, Mark Twain, Mark Twain Papers, Strange Stars
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American Novel to 1900 (Class Details)
This summer, I’m teaching UC Davis’s “American Novel to 1900” class. I used the class to try something I’d always wanted to do–something scholar Paul Lauter did while developing the uber-inclusive Heath Anthology of American Literature–namely, asking students to prioritize … Continue reading
