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Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

What Really Happened at Current Affairs?

“More Mean Girls than Norma Rae.”

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Pete Buttigieg Is Still Playing

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

On J. K. Rowling, Pamela Paul, and the Logic of Virality

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Update: October 5

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Update: August 31

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

The Publishing World Is Like Fyre Fest

Excerpt: It’s a lifestyle many writers yearn for: unhurried, complacent, lots of manufactured insouciance, and lots of money to write about it all. 

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Daily Posts for Thanksgiving Week

I’m taking a break this week to put various kinds of houses in order, including my literal one.

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Update: April 8, 2020

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Forty Pieces: A Sampling of My Work

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Anal Sex and Its Discontents: Emma Sulkowicz, Lawrence v. Texas, and the Histories of a Sex Act

Excerpt: It’s not that anal sex disrupts capitalism… but that it symbolises the dichotomy between public and private which also characterises the accumulation of capital.