Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Currently, I think my two favorite fiction writers might be Julia Armfield and Martin MacInnes. Both write smart novels that are also page turners—prose suffused with a sense of descriptive unease and imperceptible horrors that feel palpable even when they fail to materialize. 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Enjoying a chilled stout and listening to Mark Knopfler’s “The Ragpicker’s Dream” is one of my favorite holiday traditions. Wishing you all peace this season. 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 10/12/2025I didn’t think the first AI paper I’d find during grading period would be… from a respected, peer-reviewed journal asking me to review a submission. Fucking bleak. 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 08/11/2025how is Rose Betts the most majestic combo of Imogen Heap and the Decemberists? And how am I only learning about her now? I’m obsessed. 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Like my man Zevon says, “If I leave you, it doesn’t mean I love you any less. Keep me in your heart for a while.” We’ll miss you Bon. You were the best cat anyone could ask for. 030
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Colleagues and fellow scholars, here’s info on a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies that I’m coediting with Matthew Gannon and @katemarshall.bsky.social: “Long Modernism, Altered Natures,” cfp below—send us your abstracts! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...call-for-papers.sas.upenn.educfp | call for papers 051
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2025My newest piece on Peele’s NOPE and the McManus bros’ THE BLOCK ISLAND SOUND is out in SFF&TV, along with several other banger essays. Check it out here (if you don’t have access, dm me) liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18...liverpooluniversitypress.co.ukContents | Science Fiction Film & Television 18, 2This paper focuses on the TRON duology – Steven Lisberger’s TRON (1982) and Joseph Kosinki’s TRON: Legacy (2010) – ahead of the release of Joachim Rønning’s TRON: Ares (2025) to situate the series in relation to the social dreaming of utopianism. As I’ll ... 010
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Let’s be real, LLM is just way too similar to MLM. 010
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Sometimes, the way a draft of something gets written is 37 false starts and aborted efforts and then BAM. 7500 words in two days. 110
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025The upshot of extractive capitalism is a house of mirrors where what’s below is above, as we’re crushed within centuries by what was buried over epochs. 010
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025The frontier is alive and well in the world-ecology. 011
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 25/04/2025My review of Sarah Dimick’s tremendous new book, UNSEASONABLE, is out at ISLE. Academic friends and fellow environmentalists, check out Sarah’s awesome work! academic.oup.com/isle/advance...academic.oup.comUnseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures. By Sarah DimickA deceptively simple question animates Sarah Dimick’s Unseasonable: what do literary and cultural depictions of seasonal regularity (or irregularity) revea 031
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Stoked and stacked for IMAGINING CRISIS IN 21C AMERICAN LITERATURE in the fall! 030
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025“Set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the Great Depression, Shadow Ticket follows Hicks McTaggart, a detective who is tasked with finding the heiress of a cheese fortune.” I mean, that tracks. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...theguardian.comThomas Pynchon announces Shadow Ticket, his first novel in more than a decadeThe elusive 87-year-old author’s new book is a noir caper set during the big band era following a detective in search of a cheese heiress 010
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025ngl it ain’t easy reading Karen Russell’s THE ANTIDOTE when I feel the urge to write down notes about every. single. page. 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025ummmmm clipping. dropping a Neuromancer concept album? I will inhale this shit www.clashmusic.com/reviews/clip...clashmusic.comclipping. - Dead Channel Sky | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & InterviewsCyberpunk currently stands as the last great popular vision of the future. Since its emergence in the early 1980s, via novels by the likes of William 031
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 20: Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy) 110
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 19: Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (Karen Tei Yamashita) 010
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 18: Blindsight (Peter Watts) 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 17: Sing, Unburied, Sing (Jesmyn Ward) 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 16: Eleutheria (Allegra Hyde) 010
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 15: Gravity’s Rainbow 020
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 14: The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula Le Guin) 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025OK I’m almost done with Jeff VanderMeer’s new Area X novel, Absolution, and why the hell is this final section written as though it’s being narrated by Raoul Duke? 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 13: The Names (Don DeLillo) 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 12: Nightwood (Djuna Barnes) 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 11: Gathering Evidence (Martin MacInnes) 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 10: A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (Bill Brown) 020
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Parable of the Sower is a brilliant novel, but it’s important to remember that Butler was writing in the wake of the LA riots and Rodney King. As prescient as the book is about climate change, it’s also very much about structural inequities and tensions spilling over into regional violence. 010
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 9: The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the 20th Century (N. Katherine Hayles) 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 8: Waste Away: Working and Living with a North American Landfill (Joshua Reno) 020
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 7: Objectivity (Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison) 020
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 6: Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Dystopia and Other Science Fictions (Fredric Jameson) 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Writing the syllabus for my Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel course this spring, and planning to tell my students there’s a pedagogical and a political dimension to having no electronics in class. Focusing all our attention on a novel forces us to SLOW DOWN. 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Not only did Erica and Anna’s cluster allow me to write about a show I love, but it also marks the first time I’ve written about film/TV! Really happy with how it turned out, and excited to do more of this work in the future. post45.org/2024/12/noth...post45.org“Nothing is Next”: After The Leftovers, After Extinction - Post45In his introduction to the edited volume After Extinction, Richard Grusin questions the chronologically linear assumptions of extinctive thought: “Is extinction something that only happens belatedly, ... 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 5: Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (William Cronon) 010
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 4: Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction (Kate Marshall) 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 01/01/2025The hugest thanks to Erica and Anna for all the work they put into this. Psyched to join so many awesome people for this cluster. 030
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 3: Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (Ursula Heise) 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 2: The Climate of History in a Planetary Age 000
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 1: Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Rob Nixon) 020
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 27/12/2024With 2025 days away, I’m quitting the other place (mostly a hellscape at this point) and setting up shop here. Nice to see so many familiar faces! ☺️ 020