k. m. piggott

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to understand the state of higher ed: a student of mine said during a class discussion, where i asked my students what their main source of news is, that he gets his news sources from -- wait for it -- chatgpt.

Dorian Gray is never going to escape the curse of poor adaptations that either frantically try to remove the homoerotic subtext (badly) or are just plain unpleasant to watch and poorly made. Oscar Wilde didn't go to jail for THIS. Also I hate this title lmao.

had been his wife" (??????) and this entire page.

Very interesting results turn up when doing a quick google search about Queequeg

Took me two years and losing one version of my file, but at roughly 108k words, the first draft is finished.

The introduction called Melville the “impetuous friend” of Hawthorne…… my guy…… 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Everything is on fire around us and my personal and working life is a bit (radio static) at the moment, so I'm going back into reading a lot of books we call 'classics.' Read Rebecca (loved it) and Northanger Abbey (not a fave, but I like what it's doing). So now...

I’ve been working on this manuscript for two years and it’s at 91k words so far.

For their visual analysis unit introduction, I had my students watch the trailer and clips from The Zone of Interest and we had a discussion about why the film makes the deliberate choice not to see the atrocities on screen, why and how that's effective, ect.