Postdoctoral researcher - 19th-century 'office literature' - co-host of @smfms_podcast Il faut, comme disait Balzac, offrir une surface commerciale.
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Publication day: 'The Rise of Office Literature' is out now! Every time I look inside I find something new to quibble with.
Thanks to the team at @BloomsburyAcad for all their hard work!
Here it is in its natural element:
'Deliver me from calamity; from muddy boots and whirlpools; deliver me lunch.'
Another album from my dear old dad: a retelling/reimagining/detournement of 'Dark Side of the Moon'. Feat. yours truly on heavily distorted concertina in the final track: hrsmokeandrewsmith.bandcamp.…
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"Jenkin-Smith brings to his readers’ attention authors and periodicals that literary histories have meanwhile discarded or longtime ignored."
New in review, Alexandra Irimia on Daniel Jenkin-Smith's The Rise of Office Literature, from @BloomsburyPub: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu…
'Hildegard? It's Marvin -- your cousin: Marvin of Bingen. You know that new sound you're looking for? Listen to this!'
1969-74: The Age of Ketchup Accidents in US Cinema.
Spilling ketchup is an everyday hazard, but the directors of the 'New Hollywood' raised this instance of trivial frustration to a symbolic level:
'Where's Vera?' 'She went to shit and the hogs ate her!' - This verbal and 'ketchup-al' explosion from Alice's colleague, Flo, creates solidarity between waitresses,
- the sauce becomes a proxy for menstruation, cementing a moment of female expression in a patriarchal workplace
'Who hit my car at McDonalds? -- You fucked up my mirror.'
Another dose of quotidian ennui set to music by enigmatic singer-songwriter, H.R. Smoke.
Listen now!: hrsmokeandrewsmith.bandcamp.…
2. Pens (and pen-holders): (a very French-heavy listicle, this) enter Huysmans' M. Bougran: an office fetishist whose obsessive cataloguing of his pens (including by taste) gets me hot under the detachable collar.
Time for another saucy trip to @thepenmuseum!
