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Nicholas Dames

@njdames.bsky.social
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Professor @ Columbia • co-EIC Public Books • writer/critic elsewhere, on the novel then and now • most recent book THE CHAPTER (Princeton UP)

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Nicholas Dames @handle.invalid · 18/12/2024
Sometimes the mail brings treats
The Solveig Güzel/Sherbert Taylor chronicles continue
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Nicholas Dames @handle.invalid · 16/12/2024
I’m in the new issue of @nplusonemag.com with a piece on a recent kind of theory-text— the ingredients of which are exhaustion, abstraction, and a stoic kind of mordancy, and whose voice is that of the reading mother:
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Tired as a Mother | Nicholas Dames
What is the tone of this literary-theoretical tone? Take away anything from reading these books together and it’s their similar vibe: something quietly persistent, invested in its own disinvestments, ...
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Nicholas Dames @handle.invalid · 13/12/2024
I got a chance to talk to @sophieratcliffe.bsky.social about her recent hybrid of memoir and literary theory, and we discussed genres of academic writing, following in the paths of fictional characters, parenting, aging, and more
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“Parallel Tracks”: Sophie Ratcliffe on Academia, Memoirs, and Motherhood
“I used to want to experience everything. I don’t anymore.”
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Nicholas Dames @handle.invalid · 28/11/2024
Is there a possible combination of Bookmatch quiz answers that would give you *both* of these recommendations? Donate and find out
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Nicholas Dames @handle.invalid · 20/11/2024
Up now at @publicbooks.bsky.social: a conversation between Merve Emre and Devika Rege about the latter’s excellent debut novel, out now in the US
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The Poetics of Democracy
“This novel is about a collective, but that collective is not the nation. It can only allude to the nation without becoming it.”
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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Ok, I started a starter pack for novel scholars and the people who love them. Long live long forms! Happy to add anyone I missed. go.bsky.app/FcvMAmd
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Nicholas Dames @handle.invalid · 08/08/2024
Of interest to some here I’m sure:
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Public Thinker: Jonathan Kramnick on the Craft of Criticism amid Institutional Decline
“Arguments stand or fall to the degree to which the practice is done well.”
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Imagine your first experience reading a book divided into chapters. What confronted you was a story that unexpectedly stuttered. Discover the fascinating history of the chapter from @njdames.bsky.social. press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-lo... #Literature
A stack of books with the silk bookmark ribbons sticking out.The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

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A history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to today
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Nicholas Dames @handle.invalid · 13/11/2023
NYC-area friends: there’s a book launch event for THE CHAPTER at the n+1 office in Greenpoint on Wednesday night, where I’ll be talking with critic/journalist/novelist Christine Smallwood about all things segmented, interrupted, paused, etc. Beer and wine (and book copies) for sale!
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Nicholas Dames and Christine Smallwood in conversation
On Wednesday, November 15, join critics and n+1 contributors Nicholas Dames and Christine Smallwood for a conversation about Dames’s new book, The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the ...
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Nicholas Dames @handle.invalid · 07/11/2023
Today is my book’s official pub date, and while I’m not at home— or even in the US— to celebrate it, I *was* able to visit it at the storied Heffers in Cambridge. Now for the longest of deep breaths.
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Nicholas Dames @handle.invalid · 06/11/2023
I had the pleasure of talking about my book *The Chapter* with @xavierbonilla.bsky.social -- a fantastic interlocutor-- for his podcast "Converging Dialogues". We touched on therapy-metaphors, why novel chapters get longer, and why we can't not segment time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyaC...
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#276 - A Segmented History of The Chapter: A Dialogue with Nicholas Dames
In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Nicholas Dames about the history of the chapter. They discuss how chapters have boundaries, define what i...
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Nicholas Dames @handle.invalid · 21/10/2023
Vilém Flusser, Does Writing Have a Future? (2002)
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Nicholas Dames @handle.invalid · 19/10/2023
Public Books has moved in, is unpacking boxes, getting used to the new place
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Nicholas Dames @handle.invalid · 16/08/2023
Incisive and depressing piece on what’s been happening gradually and now suddenly to humanities research funding
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Does humanities research matter anymore? (opinion)
The rapid collapse in available research funding is one crisis in the humanities we aren’t talking enough about, Asheesh Kapur Siddique writes.
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Nicholas Dames @handle.invalid · 02/08/2023
The New Criticism hits the US: Harvard course catalogue, 1930-1
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