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Ana Schwartz

@peonies.bsky.social
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A few years ago, I wrote a history of sincerity (UNC 2023). In my day job, I teach Texan college students about the past.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/09/2026
beast mode
a porsche with license plate CABBAGE
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyway, to my colleagues in politically maligned but in-demand disciplines, I know it is hard to be this hot. All the weird dudes hate us and the other girlies want to be us. Stay hot, anyway. Stay hot, my friends.
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Ana Schwartz @peonies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm crying at @thedigradio.bsky.social mailbag episode and the first question is the question I've been wondering for *years* like I love you Dan but it's "sett-ler colonialism" not "sedduhler colonialism" 😭😭😭
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Mummy Shroud with Painted Portrait of a Boy - Egypt - 150–250 C.E.
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This unusually tall sunflower finally bloomed
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Gustave Caillebotte. Rue Saint-Denis, Montmartre. 1880
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Timeline cleanse: Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, "Keeshond & Bumblebee"
Painting of a small white dog - a keeshond - seemingly surprised or startled by a bumblebee
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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I've been quiet here about my continuing work for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library-Louisville, but if anybody is interested in supporting, about a month ago I agreed to do another run of the posters from last spring: www.etsy.com/listing/4528... Rest in power.
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Letterpress Show Poster - Etsy
This Letterpress Prints item by HotBrownPress has 9 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Louisville, KY. Listed on Aug 25, 2026
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
this is a pretty big deal for me
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Mark Rothko @markrothko.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Untitled botfrens.com/collections/25/content…
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Ana Schwartz @peonies.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 19/08/2026
NEW PODCAST: Eli Davies in conversation with Rebecca May Johnson about THE SPINSTER COOKBOOK. Listen here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...
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Ana Schwartz @peonies.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The women in the audience laughing together during the Q&A is the most beautiful sound in the entire universe of podcasting: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
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Eli Davies & Rebecca May Johnson: The Spinster Cookbook
Podcast Episode · London Review Bookshop Podcast · August 19 · 54m
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Ana Schwartz @peonies.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
TL blessings:
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𝐀𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐢 𝐀𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐬 @akhateli.farm · 20/08/2026
The 2026 beauty pageant winner is a blight-prone, blue-leafed, purple/yellow tomato called “Wooly Kate”. 🌱🐑🍅 Looks like its on fire.
a small, wooly tomato close up - a mottled mix of yellow underside, purple shoulders
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Ana Schwartz @peonies.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
📣 Everybody thinks movies are just stories until they learn different. 📣
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Not caring about criticism is, as it ever has been, pure affectation. The “not caring” is usually loaded with evidence of ongoing consumption & criticism is everywhere. If noBOdY cAReS aBoUt cRiTiCisM, there would be no podcast networks.
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Pleasantly surprised by the colors of the roses.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
From the “Public Budgets, Public Good” workshop sponsored by @aaup.org, @higheredlabor.bsky.social, @publicgoodu.bsky.social, and Labor@Wayne.
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A Moral Document (Vandal Live @ Wayne State)
with Sofya Aptekar, Brian Deyo, Kelly Grotke, Stephen Hastings-King, & more
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If, ten years ago, someone had told you that people could subscribe to a service that can authoritatively fake everything from legal opinions and expert witness reports to determinations about recidivism and insurance claims you’d have said, “ban whatever that is immediately.”
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Giotto, detail of the Vault of the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua
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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“orangey” is my go-to flower color
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Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Cosmic Energy botfrens.com/collections/69/content…
"Cosmic Energy" by Remedios Varo features ethereal figures seamlessly blending into a rocky environment, with one holding a violin and the other gazing toward a red cat emitting star-like sparkles. This surreal scene typifies Varo's signature blend of mysticism and the fantastical, inviting viewers into a dreamlike exploration of interconnectedness.
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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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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
August glory of my garden, a wall of hydrangea
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Ana Schwartz @peonies.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Oh my god, is it possible? Have we finally transcended the Oyler-Tolentino years? A new era is here!
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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
🌱 I have almost 11,000 photos in my phone. With few exceptions, these are mostly plant, flower, insect, bird and cat photos 😱 Will have to move these to my backup drive soon. What’s the most number of photos you carried around with you in your phone?
Orange and yellow flowers (ca poppies) blooming in mass with some green trees and shrubs under blue sky.
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Ana Schwartz @peonies.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Little gift of a poem for your TL www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Psalm 121 | Timmy Straw
From the prohibition against representation    that binds the globe in images.From that blue sea from which like whips    my help will cometo mend me
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Lilies seem to be enjoying this week’s rain
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Diego Rivera, El Pintor en Reposo (The Painter in Repose), 1916
Cubistic painting of a figure seated, with easel in one hand
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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
good on The Maroon to give Lorraine Daston the last word on this nonsense chicagomaroon.com/53011/news/a...
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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The Pave de Chailly in the Fontainbleau Forest - 1865 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Well, I’ll be. It is possible to write about the political economy of higher education in a mainstream venue in such a way as does not make me consider immolation.
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Ana Schwartz @peonies.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"...we might mention an eccentric teacher or an idiosyncratic assignment, but "the American dream" and "the green light" and "the three witches" and "the balcony scene" pass between us as a kind of lingua franca..."
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I wrote some confessions about being a chronic people-pleaser. It was a lot of fun to write this honestly! There were moments I thought "PLEASE DON'T TELL THEM ABOUT THAT" johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/confession...
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Confessions of a People-Pleaser
On the unpleasantness of being very, very pleasant
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 04/06/2026
To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

NO WAR WITH IRAN!
The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West.
You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together
& we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you
& your government is much bigger than the difference
between you & me.
And the difference between me
& my government is much bigger
than the difference
between me & you.
And our governments are very much the same...
—Marjane Satrapi
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avram alpert @avramalpert.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I've been reading Josh Rothman's columns for many years. So pleased to see this meaningful engagement with my work.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A lot of you are waiting anxiously for particular episodes. Rest assured, all Vandal Live events are still forthcoming. Here is a very tentative order for forthcoming episodes. But much depends on how much mixing and editing labor is required, so subject to change.
EPISODE 1: CRITICISM & THE CHATBOT BUBBLE
WITH CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD & WHITNEY TRETTIEN
EPISODE 2: EVERYDAY ECOFASCISM
WITH APRIL ANSON & ALEXANDER MENRISKY
EPISODE 3: THEORY AT THE BARGAINING TABLE
WITH DOMINIQUE BAKER & ANNA KORNBLUH
EPISODE 4-6: CLOSE READING FOR THE 21sт CENTURY SYMPOSIUM
WITH DAN SINYKIN, JOHANNA WINANT, & MANY MORE
EPISODE 7: THE SECRET HISTORY OF CANVAS LMS
WITH CHRISTA ALBRECTH-CRANE, ANGIE MCKINNON CARTER, & CHILER MOORE
EPISODE 8: MUSKISM
WITH QUINN SLOBODIAN & BEN TARNOFF
EPISODE 9: AFTER OPENAI
EPISODE 1O: THIS GUY SUCKED (CROSSOVER)
WITH CLAIRE AUBIN & ERIN BARTRAM
EPISODE 11: BEYOND THE WHITE SUIT: MARK TWAIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY
WITH KERRY DRISCOLL, ANN RYAN, & BARBARA SNEDECOR
EPISODE 12-13: PUBLIC BUDGETS, PUBLIC GOOD
WITH BRIAN DEYO, KELLY GROTKE, & MORE
EPISODE 14: OIL IN IRAN
WITH MATTIN BIGLARI & KATAYOUN SHAFIFE
EPISODE 15-16: MODES OF READING SYMPOSIUM
WITH DAVID MARNO, YAEL SEGALOVITZ, & MORE
EPISODE 17: VECTORALISM
WITH MCKENZIE WARK
EPISODE 18: FREE GIFTS, SERVICE WORK, & THE PROBLEM OF EDUCATION WITH ALYSSA BATTISTONI & ANNIE McCLANAHAN
EPISODE 19: HOT TYPE & COLD TOKENS: MEDIA REVOLUTIONS 1855-2030
WITH LAUREN GOODLAD & JEFF JARVIS
EPISODE 20: THE FINAL SETLIST

UPENN ENGLISH, OCTOBER 2025
QUARRY FARM, CENTER FOR MARK TWAIN STUDIES, SEPTEMBER 2025
UIC FACULTY UNITED, DECEMBER 2025
EMORY UNIVERSITY, NOVEMBER 2025
UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY, MARCH 2026

WAKE FOREST HUMANITIES INSTITUTE, APRIL 2026
MARK TWAIN HOUSE & MUSEUM, MAY 2026
QUARRY FARM, CENTER FOR MARK TWAIN STUDIES, OCTOBER 2025
LABOR@WAYNE, APRIL 2026

TOWNSEND CENTER, UC-BERKELEY, FEBUARY 2026
E-FLUX, BROOKLYN, JUNE 2026
AYDELOTTE FOUNDATION, SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, APRIL 2026
ELMIRA COLLEGE, CENTER FOR MARK TWAIN STUDIES, JULY 2026
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Rainstorm Over the Sea -John Constable
Painting of rain clouds that look like huge smudged brush strokes fill a canvas above a thin strip of sea
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Ana Schwartz @peonies.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Popped back on the app to see if @natewolff.bsky.social already has this extraordinary artifact from William Dunlap in his collection of literary historical teeth
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The iris corner awakens
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Lois Mailou Jones, The Musician, c. 1940
Brightly toned painting of a Black musician, seated, holding a guitar, looking down, with several heads behind him
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This week the New Yorker & NY Mag competed to out-disaster-pr0n each other w the genre of "students using chatbots to college." Yet over the last 3 months alone students from Oregon to MA reached out to me to help them fight AI at their unis & high schools. Journalists should write that article.
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Zach Czaia @zachczaia.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
For folks wanting more context and history on Canvas & Instructure, @mattseybold.bsky.social and American Vandal are indispensable: theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/historyofc...
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The Secret History of Canvas LMS, Corporate Raiders, & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UVU)
Listen now (112 mins) | with Christa Albrecht-Crane, Angie McKinnon Carter, and Chiler Moore
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Lee Friedlander, "Nashville, Tennessee," 1963 www.moma.org/collection/w...
B&W photo of a room with door slightly ajar, white shirt hanging over the door, and a 1960s-era TV with close-up of a face looking beleaguered with something (tissue, fabric) over the face
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
First iris bloomed in the garden today.
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
MY NEW BOOK OUT NOVEMBER 1ST! I'm so excited. You're all in there.
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