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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks for reading and pairing with the brilliant Teaching Archive - a book I love!

Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Novel Dialogue is back with a special season devoted to "The Literary Ecosystem"! Guest-produced by novelist Mesha Maren, the first episode features indie publishers @megireid.bsky.social of Hub City and @willevans.bsky.social of Deep Vellum. Episodes with scholars, critics, and editors to come!

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11.1 Indie Presses and the Literary Ecosystem: Meg Reid and Will Evans - New Books Network

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Anthony Reed @blackpoetics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

📣Everybody! Vanderbilt English is hiring a tenured associate professor of Global Modernism. We especially welcome candidates who study Anglophone modernisms comparatively alongside other modernist traditions of the early 20th century. Please help me get the word out! apply.interfolio.com/194557

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Have a smallish piece of new research at the intersection of humanities & machine learning or cultural analytics to share? Pitch it to @lbmcgrath.bsky.social, the special features editor of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social!

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The way this author was targeted is appalling, but what’s worse is the Goncourt Academy not having a AI screening strategy for all longlisted books. Once they decided to remove his novel from the longlist for alleged AI, they became bound to subject other longlisted novels to the same test.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The English department at Reed College—my department—is hiring a TT prof in post-45 US fiction and/or narrative. This position includes teaching in the interdisciplinary humanities program (mostly the freshman core course) as well as possibly contributing to upper level interdisciplinary programs.

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship in Post-1945 Fiction and/or Narrative of the United States - Office of the Dean of the Faculty - Reed C...

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 21/09/2026

Neglected Circadian Novels: Novels set within a 24-hour period are a mostly post-19th Century phenomenon. There's many more to this sub-genre than just Ulysses and Mrs. Dalloway. Here are a dozen or so I mentioned in a talk for the British Ass'n for Modernist Studies in 2024 neglectedbooks.com/?...

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Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com · 19/09/2026

William Carlos Williams if he slayed

Instagram photo of a tortoiseshell spoon next to an iced coffee, caption:

u left u sunglasses at my house. I melted them down & made a spoon with which I now stir my iced coffee. forgive me

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Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Submissions due by Sept 22 (next Tuesday)!

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is fabulous, serious reporting about Pangram and the internet to come: “But if it’s to win over everyone with an interest in halting the flow of chatbotese into human thought and communication, it will have to answer an existential question: Can we really trust Pangram to tell the difference?”

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

thanks - love your screen name!

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I was lucky enough to sit down for an extended interview about We the Platform with the endlessly creative @tomcomitta.bsky.social. We talked about experimental writing, the early days of the Web, mail art, and escaping the doom loop around literary study. lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-t...

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Literary Web 2.0 | Los Angeles Review of Books

Is it the end of reading or a brand-new era?

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Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Join BIDS & @berkeleyischool.bsky.social for the first #CulturalAnalytics talk of the fall semester with @aarthivadde.bsky.social ! "The Writer’s Hand-at-a-Distance" 🗓️ Friday, September 18 @ 12pm PT 🎟️ Attend in person or online 🔗 Register www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/cultu...

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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to Theodore Martin about his book, American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration, which explores the links between crime novels and the making of mass imprisonment in America. #books @columbiaup.bsky.social

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827 American Literature's War on Crime (with Theodore Martin) | …

The second half of the twentieth century was marked by an extreme increase in America's prison population, from roughly 250,000 inmates in 1940 to well over two mil…

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Not sure there’s anyone to blame here except Goodreads for letting review farms degrade the platform, but I would totally call out a human book reviewer for this shit.

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Thanks, Tommy, I’m trying to laugh at the ironies of this particular book getting its first bot-review (that I know of)

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I know everyone is getting AI-generated invites to fake book clubs, but is anyone reading AI-generated reviews of their books? I just found one for We the Platform on Goodreads and definitely more depressing to read fake analysis than a fake invite.

Two paragraphs of a Goodreads book review that Pangram reports is 100% AI generated. Pangram analysis shown on right side of the image.

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The @columbiaup.bsky.social Fall catalog includes 2 exciting books on the Internet and culture: WE THE PLATFORM, by @aarthivadde.bsky.social (bit.ly/44g6ZeG) and FAST CULTURE, SLOW JUSTICE, by @richardjeanso.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/4uphux7m). Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20% on both books!

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

FWIW, I’m putting my historicism hat on and finding work like Forgers and Critics by Anthony Grafton pretty useful (though not comforting)

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Wow, I think policing local Llms would be overreach and I doubt there is any appetite to do it

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’m curious what you think of the Anthropic watermarks, released yesterday, taking about 4 hours to remove by coders in the wild. Apparently the removal code went viral on GitHub. Just a perpetual cat and mouse game?

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This was such a fun conversation with Arnab and a nice change of pace for me to be a podcast guest!

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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hey I'm teaching a course "AI, Creativity & Slop" to first-year students this fall which includes readings in lit/philosophy, history + cog sci/comp sci. Does anyone have recs - essays they love in any of these areas - to help me finalize the syllabus? Would really appreciate any suggestions, thx!

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It’s a really compelling collection, Nina, and I’m glad I got a sneak peek!

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm thrilled to be launching Some Marvelous Experience today with this conversation with Josh Schneiderman and David Hobbs about their trip to see Nacny Holt's Sun Tunnels. I think it's an episode about having friends at the end of the world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Sun Tunnels

Podcast Episode · Some Marvelous Experience · August 10 · 55m

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Terry Eagleton review in the LRB of Callanan’s excellent political biography of James Joyce (23years in the making and published posthumously). Easy to miss so low in the table of contents, but top of my list for my Fall class on Joyce!

Table of contents of LRB with Eagleton review circled.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I've been doing a new project w/a grad student collaborator & we got interested in Tagore's short stories. (Alongside everything else, he was a world-class short story writer!) We made a collection of them; it's the largest set currently online (I think): scalar.lehigh.edu/literature-o...

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Literature of Colonial South Asia: Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore: A Collection

A Collection of Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore in English Translation

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

An excellent discussion on Julianne Werlin's *Life& Letters* of Aarthi Vadde's WE THE PLATFORM and how it describes the way writing and ideas now flow from printed books to social media platforms and back again. bit.ly/4bxAJYK @aarthivadde.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

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Authorship After the Internet

Aarthi Vadde's We the Platform

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Congrats, Jay! Excited to read your work!

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Emily Steinlight @emilysteinlight.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It’s been a hard week and I nearly missed that this was finally out. I wrote “Victorian Studies and the American State” 5 years ago and have been discussing it with some of you for a decade. Surreal to see, and grateful to be in the good company of @jakeromanow.bsky.social and brilliant respondents

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Victorian Studies and the American State | PMLA | Cambridge Core

Victorian Studies and the American State - Volume 141 Issue 2

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“AI writing can be lucrative, but only if it’s kept secret. Eventually, something’s got to give.”

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Emily Wilson is not the co-writer of Nolan's THE ODYSSEY. She didn't produce it or show up to set ready to be the high authority on all things adaptation. He read her translation, liked it, and turned to it for guidance in writing. She can say whatever she wants about the movie, calm down.

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"My book finds literary value in spaces where writing, reading and public conversation are all unfolding together." Aarthi Vadde discusses her new book, WE THE PLATFORM: HOW THE INTERNET CHANGED 21ST-CENTURY LITERATURE. bit.ly/4whG1j9 @aarthivadde.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

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What Happens When Everyone Can Be a Writer? Aarthi Vadde’s New Book Asks Just That

From early social media experiments to contemporary AI usage, “We the Platform" examines how digital platforms reshaped the very idea of what literature is.

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