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May 22, 2024

Book mood. 📚

Pictured are the spines of six books in a stack: These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever, Compulsion by Meyer Levin, Jazzed by Jill Dearman, Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed, Little Brother Fate by Mary-Carter Roberts, and Nothing But the Night by James Yaffe.ALT

Book mood. 📚

These novels were inspired by the 1924 Leopold and Loeb case.

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Published on May 22, 2024 16:16

May 14, 2024

May 4, 2024

May the 4th be with you.

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May the 4th be with you.


Happy Star Wars Day!


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Published on May 04, 2024 04:01

May 3, 2024

Grab your garlic, paprika, and train timetables. It’s Dracula Daily/Re: Dracula time again.

A photo of the Dracula Daily book with a string of garlic bulbs on top of it. The book rests on a brick surface.ALT

Grab your garlic, paprika, and train timetables. It’s Dracula Daily/Re: Dracula time again.

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Published on May 03, 2024 04:16

April 30, 2024

I was happy to be able to contribute to the University of Louisville’s year-long examination of…

I was happy to be able to contribute to the University of Louisville’s year-long examination of Alexis de Tocqueville by discussing A Fortnight in the Wilderness. I’ll also be leading a seminar for Kentucky teachers on this text.

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Published on April 30, 2024 11:21

New video!

I was delighted to join the University of Louisville’s year-long examination of Tocqueville by discussing A Fortnight in the Wilderness. Tomorrow I’ll be leading a seminar for Kentucky teachers on this text.

https://youtu.be/OaT-17hgAFU?si=EHy49...
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Published on April 30, 2024 11:16

April 23, 2024

It’s wonderful to hear Martine G. Ræstad on this episode of Women At Warp discussing how the…

It’s wonderful to hear Martine G. Ræstad on this episode of Women At Warp discussing how the Federation’s economy works. Martine contributed the excellent essay “The Future Burning Brightly: The Dual Impact of Energy in Star Trek’s Post-Scarcity Universe” to our new Vernon Press anthology Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier.

Episode 234: How Does the Federation Economy Work?

Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier

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Published on April 23, 2024 06:38

April 22, 2024

Guilty Pleasures!

I’ll be presenting a paper (“Missing Students and Their Fictional Afterlives: True Crime, Crime Fiction, and Dark Academia") at the Popular Culture Research Network’s “Guilty Pleasures: Examining Crime in Popular Culture” conference on May 2-3 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time). It’s wholly online and free to attend! More information is here.
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Published on April 22, 2024 14:39

April 10, 2024

New discounts for new paperbacks!

New discounts for new paperbacks! 🖖🪐
To celebrate the fact that my co-edited anthologies Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier and Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away are now available in paperback, Vernon Press is offering a limited-time 30% discount on both books. Use this coupon code at checkout from Vernon's site: WSSN30. More information is here.

STAR TREK: ESSAYS EXPLORING THE FINAL FRONTIER from Vernon Press (2023), edited by Amy H. Sturgis and Emily Strand. The cover art is a watercolor painting of a spacescape by Emily Austin. ALTSTAR WARS: ESSAYS EXPLORING A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY from Vernon Press (2023), edited by Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis. The cover art is a watercolor painting of a planet by Emily Austin. ALT
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Published on April 10, 2024 13:22