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Associate Professor of English at UNLV professorhay.com

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Lauren Harkawik @laurenharkawik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a delightful read by @johnhay.bsky.social with lots to think about by way of adaptation, what we introduce, the enduring nature of first impressions. And Derek. So much to think about, re: Derek.
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On “Derek,” Captain Ahab’s Evil Half Brother by John Hay
September 21, 2026 – “Your worst enemy ain’t Moby Dick, it’s your half brother, Derek.”
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John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thrilled to see my essay on Captain Ahab’s Evil Brother up at The Paris Review: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/09...
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On “Derek,” Captain Ahab’s Evil Half Brother by John Hay
September 21, 2026 – “Your worst enemy ain’t Moby Dick, it’s your half brother, Derek.”
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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Such a great collection, edited by @johnhay.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
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Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture - Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture
Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture - December 2020
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John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I wrote a little about Pynchon’s new novel for @review31.bsky.social
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John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
UNLV’s English Department is looking to hire a tenure-track creative writing professor of literary nonfiction nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNLV-E...
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Assistant Professor, English [R0149472]
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) appreciates your interest in employment. We ask that you keep in mind the following when completing your application: Once you start the application process ...
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Las Vegas Review of Books @laverb.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
"Baker’s book astutely captures the cultural abandonment of the worker for the celestial sheen of the CEO." A review of Erik Baker's "Make Your Own Job": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/history-5/
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History
Erik Baker, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America (Harvard University Press), 352 pp. Hardback, $35.00. Erik Baker’s Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Wor…
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Las Vegas Review of Books @laverb.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Check out the current issue (Issue #10) of the Las Vegas Review of Books: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/current-issue/
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Current Issue
Issue #10 April 2025 Fiction: Jon Hickey, Big Chief (Simon & Schuster) Poetry: Rachel Richardson, Smother (Norton) Fiction: Frederic S. Durbin, The Country Under Heaven (Melville House) History…
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/12/2024
"Over a half-century of accelerating crises . . . tenured humanities faculty have expressed surprisingly little organized interest in the material well-being of their fields . . . even as its relative poverty came to hurt the careers of their own students." www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🗃️
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Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works - Volume 1
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 16/12/2024
I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it
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John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I wrote about George R. Stewart’s novel “Fire” for Alta: www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
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Past Is Prologue
George R. Stewart’s 1948 novel Fire, recently reissued, has a contemporary resonance.
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John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I wrote a bit about Forrest Gander’s new book for Review 31: review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...
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Review 31's Books of the Year 2024
Review 31 is an online literary review.
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Jessica Teague @jes-tea.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Did anyone else who published with Cambridge get a request to sign over their work for “AI Subsidiary Aggregation”? They claim we’ll be paid a 20% royalty, but I’m highly suspicious. Are other university presses doing this?
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John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
Very pleased to see my essay on Longfellow in the newest issue of Raritan: www.proquest.com/docview/2919...
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Longfellow's Echoes - ProQuest
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John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social · 11/08/2023
Happy publication to my brother’s new book: “Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought,” out from the University of Texas Press utpress.utexas.edu/9781477327395
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Saeculum
How the notion of unique eras influenced the Roman view of time and the narration of history from various perspectives. The Victorian Era. The Age of Enlight...
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John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social · 10/08/2023
My review of “Utopia in the Early U.S.” is in the new issue of “Early American Literature”: muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/article/903797
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Project MUSE - <i>Utopia in the Early U.S.: John Lithgow's Equality and Other Writings: An Anthology...
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John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
My review of Andrew Lipstein’s new novel, “The Vegan,” is up at Review 31: review31.co.uk/article/view/883/dog…
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Dog Eat Dog
John Hay: The Vegan - Andrew Lipstein reviewed by John Hay | Review 31: an online literary review.
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