Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026hey mushroom nerds (complimentary) — are these king boletes? Found in midcoast Maine. 170
Reposted by Nate WolffJoe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026One unexpected encounter in the first chapter of THE GOLDEN BOWL was Poe's ARTHUR GORDEN PYM, and it's the dazzling whiteness bit that is remembered. I'm glad I had read @natewolff.bsky.social & @rezekjoe.bsky.social 's version of Poe. 082
Reposted by Nate WolffHester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I wish I could tell you that I have consumed any other culture/thought about anything else in six months but I haven’t, and here’s a little bit about why. Thanks to @publicbooks.bsky.social and anyone who has allowed me to talk at them about HR and MD: www.publicbooks.org/heated-rival...publicbooks.org“Heated Rivalry” Is the “Moby-Dick” of Canadian Gay Hockey Shows - Public BooksThe literary genre of contemporary MM romance realizes an imagined world that Melville was trying to write into being. 1916543
Reposted by Nate Wolffmartha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go 501915403
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Somehow I missed the charming detail that Lyndsey Fifield falsely claimed to have insider info that the Tufts student who was abducted and imprisoned solely for writing an op-ed in the student newspaper (as revealed in state dept’s own memos!) was a terrorist. 2192
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Look, Middlemarch is a great novel. It complexly mediates class conflict, the commodification of all life, emerging ideological structures in Victorian capitalism. I just personally think it’s more impressive when a novel does that through a story about a guy who hates a weird fish. 919925
Reposted by Nate WolffJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I do believe this guardian debacle is about me. I think they personally want to upset a bunch of Moby-Dick micro-influencers. They have no idea what’s coming do they @natewolff.bsky.social !!! 3496
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I'm sorry, no. "Transparency" is simply not an indefiniteness that shadows forth the heartless voids & immensities of the universe, stabbing us from behind with the thought of annihilation; a dumb blankness, full of meaning, from which we shrink. 4459
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Canvas is down, ye say? Aye lad hearken to me and I'll tell thee of a time when a man might say canvas was down! When the leviathan booms his bulk upon ye an' thy splintered masts surrender their sails to the foaming, merciless drink!! then, lad, ye say might say with some authority that can (1/135) 825962
Reposted by Nate WolffJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 04/05/2026You can’t let @natewolff.bsky.social play Legos with your kids for TEN MINUTES without him making a bunch of angry fish!!! 1183
Reposted by Nate WolffCaleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Coming soon! I wrote the Foreword to the new edition of Lauren Berlant’s first book, The Anatomy of National Fantasy. Dig the killer new cover design, where Liberty is in a scaffold that looks a lot like a cage. 1407
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026this joke doesn’t totally make sense but my first thought was “cabinet of dr. calamari” 0140
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I have to respect this excuse for missing a day in my video game theory class. 2311
Reposted by Nate WolffNate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 31/03/2024Jesus’s 3 days in the tomb and his resurrection was typologically prefigured by Jonah’s 3 days in and escape from the belly of a whale, so Easter is a great day to meditate on the inscrutable malice of a specific fish. 518937
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 01/04/2026FYI today's a great day to start reading this novel. It begins on April 1st — and it's widely considered Melville's most accessible and fun work after Clarel! 4336
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Oh wow, verrrryyy interesting that no one told me best ever tooth novel McTeague was facing Mediocremarch in this Defector bracket. Vote suppression from the Big Eliot lobby. Sad! 3121
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Women are becoming estranged from their partners who respond selfishly to an avalanche. What's behind 'alpine divorce'? 1100
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Hey! Is the dream of the 90s (sustained ambitious attention to the fin de siècle American novel) alive? Yes! In this AzQ special issue @rafaelwalker.bsky.social and I co-edited with intro by us & afterword by Jennifer Fleissner 😎 Open access! @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/56582 03211
Reposted by Nate WolffRafael Walker @rafaelwalker.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Our special issue of Arizona Quarterly on the American novel at the turn of the 20th century is now out! In addition to an intro by @natewolff.bsky.social and me, it includes 6 original essays and a bracing afterword by Jennifer Fleissner (which, among other things, urges us back to Lears). 1267
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 10/03/2026“Can we have class outside” no absolutely not. we are discussing The Yellow Wallpaper under sickly fluorescent lights and please do not open or look out the window. 913610
Reposted by Nate WolffAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 21/02/2026literary+cultural studies friends working in grad programs! does your program offer a required introductory seminar for new students? teaching ours again, eager for suggestions of themes, readings +assignments for theory foundations+cohort-cohering. (some past versions in thread below in return) 114417
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 14/02/2026everything reminds me of him (McTeague from MCTEAGUE [1899]) 0193
Reposted by Nate WolffDan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 10/02/2026It's here! I hosted a symposium on close reading at Emory in November. Matt Seybold recorded it for his podcast, American Vandal, and the first of three episodes is out today. Catch me, @johannawinant.bsky.social, @becimay.bsky.social, @bakaari.bsky.social + more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...podcasts.apple.comClose Reading For The 21st Century Symposium (Vandal Live at Emory)Podcast Episode · The American Vandal · S12 E4 · 1 sec 05722
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 08/02/2026that’s right sports fans it’s time to fire up my famous “game day” sous vide ribs! They will be ready in ~36h 2140
Reposted by Nate WolffArielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Very moved by this nuanced and thoughtful review of WRITING AGAINST REFORM by @natewolff.bsky.social (free to read in English at: journals.openedition.org/transatlanti... ) "this critique (of sentimentalism) needed an extra dash of dialectics." 💙💙💙How can you not love this scholar?💙💙💙journals.openedition.orgArielle Zibrak, Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Pr...In “Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson denounced those who dress uncharitable motives in the flattering garb of compassion: “I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways. ... 063
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 28/01/2026My review of @zibrak.bsky.social 's WRITING AGAINST REFORM is up at Transatlantica (revue le plus chic! 🇫🇷)! An honor to think with a book this smart, which taught me a lot and pushed me to articulate some—I hope!—productive tensions or disagreements: journals.openedition.org/transatlanti...journals.openedition.orgArielle Zibrak, Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Pr...In “Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson denounced those who dress uncharitable motives in the flattering garb of compassion: “I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways. ... 192
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 02/01/2026it is always a damp, drizzly Month of Dick in my soul 0192
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 01/01/2026My 2026 resolution is to take things more personally. I learned this by reading Moby-Dick. 18012
Reposted by Nate WolffNoreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 29/12/2025I'm 30 pages from the end of MCTEAGUE and I've never been so stressed in my fucking life 5273
Reposted by Nate WolffRafael Walker @rafaelwalker.bsky.social · 18/12/2025As I said on the other app, so again here: Thank you, friend, for this encouraging blurb, and let us hope the book lives up to your high praise! #grateful 092
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Honored to blurb @rafaelwalker.bsky.social ‘s brilliant and gorgeous new book — alongside the incomparable Jen Fleissner no less! 0193
Reposted by Nate WolffNate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Really not looking forward to difficult convos with the family over Thanksgiving. Sorry grandpa, whales are fish! 6645
Reposted by Nate WolffConcerned Jewish Faculty & Staff @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social · 21/11/2025The MA Antisemitism Commission has approved its final report conflating Judaism with Zionism. We respond: "The Commission has done more to fuel rising authoritarianism and antisemitism than to create the conditions that promote Jewish safety" www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/commission-s...concernedjewishfaculty.orgCJFS Commission Shadow Report | Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff 1124
Reposted by Nate WolffMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 19/11/2025I do not have a riverboat license. Still. But this paper was really good. 1101
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 19/11/2025In which I give @mattseybold.bsky.social a pop quiz for his river boat license AND deal with a rude heckler, my nemesis @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, while talking about Twain's Puddn’head Wilson via Malm's Fossil Capital. 1130
Reposted by Nate WolffRandall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 13/11/2025American Studies and a variety of other programs under under threat at the University of Nottingham. Lend your voice to the petition.change.orgSign the PetitionSAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM 042
Reposted by Nate WolffDr Janice Deitner @janiceflux.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Help save American Studies at the University of Nottingham: c.org/Hk65TVQ7f5c.orgSign the PetitionSAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM 061
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 07/11/2025hey nerds! Any recommended critical/theoretical reading on digression—its pleasures, frustrations, etc. Whether in literature (e.g. Tristram Shandy), film or tv, video games ("side quests"), etc.? Other fun examples welcome too. (My favs are "Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and whale facts obvs 🐳) 8163
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 07/11/2025ummm it was actually Walt Whitman who first called a NYC ferry the friendship express 1334
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025this is also the phrase I used to start my Émile Zola reading marathon 2201
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025so happy for but also jealous of NYC right now! Sounds like the zohran election parties were LIT 0320
Reposted by Nate WolffTed Genoways @genoways.bsky.social · 02/11/2025This makes me happy to no end—not least because I've had the pleasure of explaining to my mom how I'm known among Whitman scholars. 0142
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 01/11/2025bluesky introduces new “backhanded likes” and “pity likes” beta 2370
