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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s here it’s here!! 🥳 Hate LinkedIn but love novels? Read this book! So excited to receive @sselisker.bsky.social’s excellent book from @academic.oup.com on character networks. Scott is as kind as he is smart and I feel lucky to read and know him.

Cover of Scott Selisker’s book, Character Networks in Contemporary US Fiction

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hot off the @academic.oup.com press: Thomas Allen’s vital book on vitalism in 19th-century American Lit. Gives us a rigorous genealogy of vitalism to think about alternatives to the extractive human relationship to the nonhuman world.

Photo of Thomas Allen’s book -Vital Moments-

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I’ve been witnessing its evolution over the past few years, and I am so excited to read @aarthivadde.bsky.social’s We The Platform in its final form. I just started and am already inspired by its clarity and optimism. Down with fatalism! Up with collaborative creation!

A tabby cat sniffs a copy of Aarthi Vadde’s book.

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I’ve peaked!!! The lead in a story about tiny toilets!! But for real I’m glad to have this artifact of the class I taught this spring and the 31 students who taught and inspired me🚽 💕 vnews.com/2026/06/05/c...

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I posted a “secret file” on my course canvas site and never mentioned it to my students. Love seeing notes about it in their final exams 😻

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Like the author himself, @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social ’s book with @academic.oup.com on literary value from 1800-2000 is incredibly learned, rigorous, and persuasive. So glad this must-read is out in the world! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Sometimes you get to review a great book by a great human for a great journal.

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Okay I am gonna try this Bluesky thing again, mostly so I can celebrate the terrific books that @ericafretwell.bsky.social and I have the privilege of stewarding into the world for OUP’s American Literary History Series. Watch this space 👀

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Novel Dialogue (the official podcast of SNS) is back with Season 9: TECH. We have a great lineup of novelists and critics ready to help you make sense of these senseless times. @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social, @rosecasey.bsky.social, @lizmiller.bsky.social, @vauhinivara.bsky.social, and more!

A poster listing the dates and guests on the podcast, including Ken Liu, Rose Casey, Lauren Beukes, Andrew Pepper, Kim Stanley Robinson, Elizabeth Miller, Fernanda Trias, Heather Cleary, Vauhini Vara, Aarthi Vadde, Alvaro Enrigue and Maia Gil'Adi

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

“People never really run away from anything.”

A white cat peeks out from behind a lamp in front of a shelf of colorful books.

A film still from Hitchcock’s Psycho in which Norman Bates peeks out from a window.

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It’s a great day to make new friends 😹

A tabby cat stands on his hind legs to look at a white British short hair who is sitting on a table and hissing.

Close up of the hissing cat with her eyes closed, ears back, and mouth open.

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I got to write about things I like: Freud, 80s computers, and @katemarshall.bsky.social's treatment of genre. Plus one I dislike: academic trend. Check out the whole "interlocutions" cluster, also featuring @ericafretwell.bsky.social and Thomas Constantinesco. academic.oup.com/alh/article-...

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Lost and Found: Alien as Object, Unconscious as Method

Abstract. In a little-known essay, Freud defines “transience value” as “scarcity value in time.” This essay draws upon this strange formulation to explore

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Happy to see everyone here!! I’m very bad at clever content so please enjoy my cat in his new donut bed.

A smug looking tabby sitting in a large, very fluffy, white, circular cat bed.

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

T-minus five days until submissions are due. Come teach @mitchrmurray.bsky.social and me about the 👻👻👻 in the contemporary! www.acla.org/forgotten-fo...

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

WE'RE BACK! And this season we're weeeeird. Look out for a special drop later today, featuring the brilliant @katemarshall.bsky.social! 👀👽

Poster featuring the season six lineup for the Novel Dialogue podcast

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