We talk with Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo about her piece “Still, Observing: On Christine Kwon’s A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue”. Labor’s relation to and intertwinement with domestic life, femininity, and craft; upper-level seminar close reading mode, good parties and bad parties, bathtubs, Korean and Korean-American poetry, name-checking your influences, pay-to-play poetry prize chapbook publishing, and survival.
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Index for Continuance Podcast by CSU Poetry Center(referenced): http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/index-for-continuance-podcast

Still, Observing: Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo on Christine Kwon's "A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue"

We talk with Philip Metres about his upcoming award winning book of translated poems: “Ochre and Rust: New Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky.” Russian Literature as homeland, (self-)imposed exile, close readings, mothers, slant rhyme being cooler than direct end rhyme, retweeting Walter Benjamin, the deficit model of translation, and the music of language. 
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Philip Metres on Sergey Gandlevsky and the Task of the Translator

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We talk with Chapman Caddell about his piece “View from the Couch: Success, “The Topeka School,” and “A Fan’s Notes.” Fiction-criticism, criticism-fiction, a loser’s guide to the future of contemporary literature, the careerist novel, “36 on the ACT-core” prose, Henry James in Philly, literary criticism in Argentina, and a young Ben Lerner in the grocery store. 
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Pieces or Works Mentioned:
“The Pound Era” by Hugh Kenner (University of California Press, 1971) (PDF easily available online)
“A Golden Age” by Ryan Ruby (article published by Vinduet, April 2023) (https://www.vinduet.no/essayistikk/a-golden-age-ryan-ruby-on-literary-criticism-and-the-internet/)
“The Golden Age of the Working Critic”, American Vandal Podcast (Criticism LTD series, hosted by Matt Seybold) (https://marktwainstudies.com/goldenage/)
We didn’t specifically talk about this piece, but I’d never heard of Piglia before so this is worth sharing. “Ricardo Piglia’s Prescient Conspiracies” (Article published by the New Yorker in 2017) (https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/ricardo-piglias-prescient-conspiracies)
“Jock Itch: Toxic Fandom in the Novels of Frederick Exley and Chris Bachelder” by Mina Tavakoli (Article published by Bookforum, July 2022) (https://www.bookforum.com/fiction/toxic-fandom-in-the-novels-of-frederick-exley-and-chris-bachelder-25002)

The Novel as Résumé: Chapman Caddell on Ben Lerner and Frederick Exley

Joined by special guest, fellow editor Alana Pockros, we talk with Emmeline Clein about her piece, “Recipes, Rumors, and Reminiscence: A Literary Cookbook Gift Guide.” “We talk about opulence, decadence, intransigence, dinner parties, the list as form, stealing husbands, anti-fascist pasta, Italian futurism, what Alice Toklas ate during before and after the war, considerations of oysters, and Salvador Dali.” Emmeline’s book “Dead Weight,” a cultural, political, and personal history of disordered eating, comes out in late February from Knopf. Stay in touch with us by subscribing to our newsletter. Find subscription plans, print issues, and merch at our online store. Music/beats by producer aLiVE of Muamin Collective.
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The Cook, The Surrealist, Her Husband-Thief, and His Manifesto: Emmeline Clein on Literary Cookbooks

This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on his discussions of what he considers to be the most important part or aspect of tragedy, namely plot or story (mythos).  Aristotle stresses that a good plot is complex, but forms a unity.

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Aristotle, Poetics - Plot, Structure, And Unity - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on three key aspects of good plots: reversal (peripeteia), recognition (anagnōrisis), and suffering (pathos). 

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Aristotle, Poetics - Reversal, Recognition, And Suffering - Sadler's Lectures

We talk with J. Arthur Boyle about his piece, “The Artist’s Self Interest: On Capitalist Fiction.” Stay in touch with us by subscribing to our newsletter. Find subscription plans, print issues, and merch at our online store. Music/beats by producer aLiVE of Muamin Collective.
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Resistance and Insistence: Capitalist Fiction, Conglomeration, and the Avant-Garde

Since May 2021, G19: The Graduate Student Collective of C19 has produced and published The New Book Forum, an online interview series that facilitates conversations between graduate students and the author of a recent book in the field of 19th-century American literature. This episode is hosted by the forum’s founders, Rachael DeWitt (Columbia University), Max Chapnick (Northeastern University), and Allison (Ally) Fulton (University of California Davis) who discuss the project’s beginnings and the insights they’ve gleaned since. They share a short selection from an April 2023 interview with Autumn Womack on her book The Matter of Black Living (2022), and then reflect on three years of conversations on new directions in the field, scholarly publication, and bringing the nineteenth century into the classroom. They wrap up by discussing some favorite interview moments and anticipate where the forum is headed in the future. Post-production support by Julia Bernier (Washington & Jefferson College). Full transcript available at https://bit.ly/S07E05Transcript

S07 E05 | The G19 New Book Forum on The Matter of Black Living by  Autumn Womack

How Hemingway and Orwell Challenged Far-Right Extremism

Modernist Literature and Anti-Fascism

Chris Washington reads Jane Austen differently from how she is classically understood; rather than the doyen of the cisheteronormative marriage plot, Washington argues that Austen leverages the generic restraints of the novel and envisions a nonbinary future that traverses the two-sex model of gender that supposedly solidifies in the eighteenth century. Here, Washington discusses a politics built on plurality and possibility with Marquis Bey, Christopher Breu, and Alison Sperling.



Chris Washington is associate professor of English at Francis Marion University. He is author of Nonbinary Jane Austen and editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man.

Marquis Bey is professor of black studies and gender and sexuality and critical theory at Northwestern University. Bey is author of several books including Cistem Failure, Black Trans Feminism, and The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender.

Christopher Breu is author of several books including In Defense of Sex, Insistence of the Material, Hard-Boiled Masculinities, and coeditor of Noir Affect. Breu is professor of English at Illinois State University. 

Alison Sperling is assistant professor of literature, media, and culture at Florida State University, and a visiting fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin.



REFERENCES:
Derrida’s Of Grammatology
Foucault
Trans Femme Futures / Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift
The Anthropocene Unconscious / Mark Bould; Alison Sperling review in Los Angeles Review of Books
The Matrix film
Black on Both Sides / C. Riley Snorton
Fred Moten
Judith Butler
We Are All Nonbinary (essay) / Kadji Amin
Edward Said
Histories of the Transgender Child / Jules Gill-Peterson
S. Pearl Brilmyer / “The Ontology of the Couple” issue of GLQ
A Mercy / Toni Morrison
Sojourner Truth



Nonbinary Jane Austen is available in the Forerunners series from University of Minnesota Press. An open-access edition is available at manifold.umn.edu. Thank you for listening.



Nonbinary Jane Austen

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