[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
September
30: Recent Reads: The Overstory: A series on great books I’ve recently read
starts with Richard Powers’ ambitious, messy, vital climate change novel.
October
1: Recent Reads: The Nickel Boys: The series continues with Colson
Whitehead’s stunning, bracing new novel.
October
2: Recent Reads: There There: How Tommy Orange’s debut novel importantly
challenges my critical optimism, as the series reads on.
October
3: Recent Reads: Heaven, My Home: The newest mystery thriller from one of
our great contemporary writers, Attica Locke.
October
4: Recent Reads: The Sweetest Fruits: The series concludes with the new
historical novel from Monique Truong, which I’ll be teaching in my Spring
Capstone course!
October
5-6: Crowd-sourced Recent Reads: Another great crowd-sourced post full of
suggestions for further reading—add yours in comments!
October
7: Domestic Terrorism: The KKK: Inspired by the 50th anniversary
of the Days of Rage protests, a domestic terrorism series starts with
under-remembered histories of our oldest such organization.
October
8: Domestic Terrorism: The Weathermen: On that anniversary, the series
continues with the difficulty and importance of writing about domestic
terrorists with whose positions we agree.
October
9: Domestic Terrorism: McVeigh and Militias: How to see the Oklahoma City
bomber as a “lone wolf” and why we shouldn’t, as the series rolls on.
October
10: Domestic Terrorism: Edward Abbey and Environmental Terrorism: Three
distinct and contrasting ways to contribute to environmental activism.
October
11: Domestic Terrorism: Cultural Representations: The series concludes with
three cultural texts that reflect three different perspectives on domestic
terrorists.
October
12-13: 21st Century Domestic Terrorism: A special weekend post
featuring an excerpt from my new book on how to contextualize contemporary
domestic terrorists and mass shooters.
October
14-20: Present and Future Book Talks for We the People: Speaking of that
new book, a brief update on my current and future talks—and a request for ideas
for more!
October
21: The 1850 Women’s Rights Convention: Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis: A
series on a forgotten Worcester convention starts with the Renaissance woman
who served as its president.
October
22: The 1850 Women’s Rights Convention: Sarah H. Earle: The series
continues with the local convention organizer who embodies the era’s many different
forms of social activism.
October
23: The 1850 Women’s Rights Convention: Sojourner Truth: The benefits and
limitations of remembering a striking individual’s communal contexts, as the
series rolls on.
October
24: The 1850 Women’s Rights Convention: The Men: Remembering, but not
over-emphasizing, the male participants at a women’s rights convention.
October
25: The 1850 Women’s Rights Convention: Harriet Martineau and Harriet Taylor
Mill: The series concludes with two English women who reveal the convention’s
Transatlantic influences.
October
26-27: Ariella Archer’s Guest Post: My Scary Thoughts: The Evolution of Three Horror
Subgenres: A Halloween series kicks off with my latest Guest Post, the
great Ariella Archer on past and present evolutions of horror films!
October
28: ScaryStudying: Scary Stories: My annual HalloweenStudying begins with
my analytical prejudice against scary stories, and how House of Leaves helped challenge that perspective.
October
29: ScaryStudying: Five Masterpieces: The series continues with a handful
of the spookiest works in American literature—and a bunch more nominations in
comments!
October
30: ScaryStudying: American Horror Stories?: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s
complaint about the difficulties of writing Gothic stories in America, and how
to find horror in the everyday here.
October
31: ScaryStudying: The Shinings: How the endings of Stephen King’s and
Stanley Kubrick’s Shinings embody
hopeful and cynical forms of horror, as the series scares on.
November
1: ScaryStudying: Sleepy Hollow: The series concludes with the foundational
scary story that’s also an ironic American origin story.
Special blog anniversary
series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Topics you’d
like to see covered in this space? Guest Posts you’d like to contribute? Lemme know!
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