Lee Konstantinou
@LKonstan
I teach contemporary literature at @UMDEnglish. I wrote "Pop Apocalypse," "Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction," and "The Last Samurai Reread."
Excited to see my ARC essay on Tolkien and the Silicon Valley right is live.
If you want to hear a podcast featuring me talking about Tolkien and the far right, have I got something for you. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/myt…
Phonics books seem evenly divided between books that systematically map the relation between phonemes and graphemes in English—and books with activities that are actually fun and tractable for kids to do. Someone should try to combine the two approaches.🤪
Send your proposals for this seminar on “Conspiracism” that I’ll be co-organizing with @brouillettese & @LKonstan for ACLA 2026 Montreal: acla.org/seminar/a770a5…
I was shocked to learn it’s being called Dune: Part III: MechaHitler
Looks like quite a departure visually
The America Party: come for the pedophilia conspiracies; stay for the deficit reduction!
They just did this to name another company after something from Tolkien.
Tech billionaires back new lender Erebor as Silicon Valley Bank rival on.ft.com/4nvgFdQ
“I played a medley of Keith Sweat, Bell Biv Devoe, Hammer, and Public Enemy pop songs on the piano.” After reading this sentence in Along Came a Spider, I have a sudden and irresistible urge to write something about James Patterson.
Just remember, this film has nothing--not a thing--to do with class!
First trailer for Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘BUGONIA’, starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons The film follows 2 conspiracy-obsessed men who kidnap a major CEO, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying Earth. In theaters on October 31.
Heard it’s gonna be about Zuck’s run for NYC mayor in 2025.
‘THE SOCIAL NETWORK: PART 2’ is in the works. • Aaron Sorkin is set to write and direct • Unknown if Jesse Eisenberg will return as Mark Zuckerberg (Source: Deadline)
Amazon has the "read sample" enabled for the new Orc book, so the the Preface and Introduction are available. amazon.com/Mismeasure-Orc…
Gonna start the _Journal of James Patterson Studies_. What I'll do is write detailed outlines of every article to appear in every issue, and then farm out research and sentence-writing to an army of co-writers.
my thanks to Andy Perluzzo for stats help, and @BrandyLJensen for editing @DefectorMedia but I am to blame and will see myself out defector.com/the-plight-of-…
Someone does need to write "The Hatred of Sociology: A Literary History."
The truth is the opposite. The English Major boomed when it was regarded as a socially relevant major in the 1960s and ’70s—and its decline is linked to the increased instrumenalization of undergraduate education.
I do, personally, think that the decline of English Lit has got a lot to do with it becoming, essentially, a branch of sociology. How to kill a book: read it through an -ism lens. Of course, sometimes it can be useful; but most of the time, it leaves a deadened feeling. Most
Today is release day for OotG! Here is the book half in the dirt. Metaphors! Thanks to all the people who made the book possible, especially my co-editor Jorge Santos and @UTexasPress utpress.utexas.edu/9781477331804/
Forget the internet—someone should write a novel about capitalism.
Really gotta start reading literary fiction one of these days. I've heard real good things about it.