It’s 2026, why is the coffee places still doing the thing where you have to get a bespoke password like “h0Tb3ansYUM” to get on the wifi

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Favorite short novels (< 200 pages or so) for teaching in an intro to the English major type context? I regularly teach Samuel Selvon's The Lonely Londoners and/or Bartleby the Scrivner in this slot, and perhaps I shouldn't try to fix what isn't broken.

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The plan is to pair it with as much poetry as I can cram in and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social 's Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century

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I may write them, but even I know that short stories are stupid and impossible. Like, who are they trying to fool into thinking you can compress human experience into some perfect stiletto that slides quickly and easily between the reader's ribs?

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It's always the fucking same. I get halfway through writing a straightforward episode on a well-documented artist, and the next thing you know I'm buying books on Zoroastrian theology and the adaptational manoeuvres Stanley Kubrick made when adapting novels to the screen.

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