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Our next Page Breaks session will be 17 December at 1 pm, and we’ll be discussing Taylor Swift’s re-recording project, the recent 10-minute drop of ‘All Too Well’ and the ‘weaponization of memory’. Thanks to Ellen for this suggestion! Text (Watching + Listening) Taylor Swift ‘All Too Well (The Short Film)’ (via Youtube) Lots of … Continue reading “Page Breaks – 17 December – Taylor Swift and the Weaponization of Memory”
Our next Page Breaks session will be on 17 November at 1 pm, and we’ll be discussing this Vanity Fair article on WeWork’s cofounder, Rebekah Neumann. Text (Watching) Rachel Dodes, ‘How Billionaire Rebekah Neumann Put the Woo-Woo in WeWork’ (via Vanity Fair) “Time” and “Place” Wed 17 November, 1 pm Zoom: Link (Password: pagebreaks) Looking forward … Continue reading “Page Breaks 17 November – How Billionaire Rebekah Neumann Put the Woo-Woo in WeWork”
[Note from 27 October: Team! I’m so sorry for the clerical error – this week’s Page Breaks was all ready to go and (unbeknownst to me) languishing as an unpublished draft. We’ll push to next week, at which point I will have seen this episode 3 times…TJ] Our next Page Breaks session will be on … Continue reading “Page Breaks – 03 November – Virgin River”
Our next Page Breaks session will be on 20 October at 1 pm, and we’ll be discussing the recent viral NYT magazine piece, ‘Who is the Bad Art Friend?’. “Her letter, it wasn’t art! It was informational. It doesn’t have market value. It’s like language that we glean from menus, from tombstones, from tweets.” Text … Continue reading “Page Breaks – 20 October – ‘Who is the Bad Art Friend?’”
Our next Page Breaks session will be on 13 October at 1 pm, and we’ll be discussing this love letter to the pleasures and mysteries of archival work (and also, LBJ). Thanks to Professor Rebecca Mitchell for recommending this piece!
Our next Page Breaks session will be on 22 September at 1 pm, and will consider Craig’s Brown’s essay on the peculiarities of biography.
Our next Page Breaks session will be on 29 September at 1 pm, and will consider Douglas Coupland’s recent take on Elon Musk in The Guardian. (Thanks everyone for the suggestion!)
We’re starting off Page Breaks 2021-2022 on 15 September with a discussion of seasonal culture – what it is, who defines it, how its impact registers, and more!
On Wednesday 28 July (from 9:30 am), we will be hosting our monthly Research Day for postgraduates in English Literature. This is an opportunity to work on your own research, while knowing that others are working at the same time. We have a shared schedule for the day, with periodic zoom calls to set and … Continue reading “Page Breaks Research Day – July 2021”
After much discussion, it’s finally happening! We’re talking about The Crown.
