V. Joshua Adams
@vjoshuaadams
Professing English @uofl. Formerly @chireview. Poetry, poetics, philosophy, translation — plus old books, old cars, cat pics. Member @UCWKentucky. Views mine.
Today’s the day. Buy one for your friends and lovers. Buy one for someone who thinks they don’t like poetry. bookshop.org/p/books/past-l…
Meet the New Centrist Democrat Copying Zohran Mamdani This is incredible @heycappello
With the rise of AI, I've begun to wonder if future graders of expository essays will even be able to grasp the sheer brilliance of Mandy Berry's famous Student Essay Unplugged? We many never see this kind of essay again, folks.
When you haven’t been somewhere with no light pollution for a long time, and finally look up at the night sky. Holy fuck.
It feels criminal to go on with our quotidian lives while millions of Gazans are starved by Israel in a concentration camp. Every person of conscience I know has been screaming for months, but Aaron Bushnell was right: “this is what our ruling class has decided will be normal”.
Caught an episode of season three of GOT on the plane. Good times.
A lot of people say we don't make things in this country and they are right. But for the first time since the introduction of Gatorade Frost in 1997, there are several new Gatorade flavors, all of which are outstanding
95 percent of Right Wing nostalgia is just a picture of a woman with unbelievable honkers captioned, “This is what they took from us 😔”
America in the 1970s Probably afforded this lifestyle on one income
“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space.” No contest.
serious question: Hamlet vs Macbeth, which play is winning in your mind
Hey a bunch of us are going off the rails on a crazy train later if you want to come thru
The cool thing about Before Sunrise is that they’re not acting and they’re actually in love
Shame on everyone who is letting this happen
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
no one is stupider than social scientists
Yes, it's our podcast
Is there a NYRB closet and can writers go in there and talk about what’s great and take it home
Is there a NYRB closet and can writers go in there and talk about what’s great and take it home
✨Matthew Broderick’s Closet Picks!✨
Before you jump to conclusions remember Star Trek IV
Would you save 25,000 blue whales or 25,000 humans? Remember that 25,000 would be all the blue whales on earth, choosing the humans means rendering them extinct.
“Do I dare / Disturb the universe?” I talked with my friend Megan Quigley, modernism scholar extraordinaire, about T. S. Eliot and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Total dream of a conversation. open.spotify.com/episode/2oIzEN…
Yooo DC headed your way 8/16!
We are often having very bleak conversations before bed these days. However, I’ll highlight a blessing, we have @vjoshuaadams , @misternagel , @clairehopple , and @aliner , visiting 804 lit salon in the coming months, and I’m really looking forward to seeing all of them!
colonial atrocities so horrifying that the King of Belgium condemns them.
“A disgrace for all humanity.” Today, King Philippe of #Belgium broke the silence. In his national address, he condemned the horror unfolding in #Gaza. He called for international law and human dignity to be upheld. Two days ago, the #HindRajabFoundation and @GLAN_LAW filed…