Gerry Canavan

Gerry Canavan

@gerrycanavan.bsky.social

Doomsayer, Utopologist. Minor but representative. Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University.

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michael lutz
@ztul.bsky.social

Since it apparently needs to be explained again honey dears: this is all just a DISTRACTION! It is a play of MERE APPEARANCES over ESSENTIAL FORMS! We are SUPPOSED to be spending our NIGHTMARISH LIVES contemplating GNOSIS!

Gerry Canavan
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called this one too artreview.com/morally-depr...

artreview.comMorally Depraved Fantasy: ‘House of the Dragon’ and ‘Rings of Power’We are watching these TV shows with bated breath waiting for everyone to die (if they’re lucky) or survive in failure and shame (if they’re not)
Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social

The first trailer for ‘THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER’ Season 3 is here. Premiering November 11 on Prime Video. #TheRingsOfPower #LOTR

Gerry Canavan
@gerrycanavan.bsky.social

I've talked about earlier drafts of this one at a few recent conferences, so here at last is ML Kejera's piece on AI and the Commonwealth prize...

Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org

"Because I was shortlisted for the Commonwealth prize in 2020, the thought that my story might have been shortlisted because it was “formulaically postcolonial” haunted me." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/write-me-a-c...

oaklandreviewofbooks.orgWrite Me a Commonwealth StoryOn the charge of being a postcolonial formula.
Gerry Canavan
@gerrycanavan.bsky.social

Today!

Gerry Canavan@gerrycanavan.bsky.social

Upcoming talk at Marquette! Dr. andré m. carrington (UCR): "Audiofuturism: The Black History of Science Fiction Radio Drama" registration not required but preferred! www.eventbrite.com/manage/event...

Gerry Canavan
@gerrycanavan.bsky.social

"My opinion of God has never been lower," "Christopher Tolkien is Morgoth," and "Dragons are boats" are each, in their own way, the most each of our hosts have ever cooked

Ranged Touch@rangedtouch.bsky.social

It's time for more Ancient Elf History on SHELVED BY GENRE, as we continue the Silmarillion and learn more about its bizarre process of editorial assembly: rangedtouch.com/2026/10/09/t...

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Nobel Prize
@nobelprize.org

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

Gerry Canavan
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I've been in touch with the director of the press, who says this was not intentional and a data entry error that is being corrected. Thanks Suzanna!

Gerry Canavan@gerrycanavan.bsky.social

If you worked with Wesleyan University Press on a book, check your Anthropic allocation. In the last few days they went through and assigned themselves 100% of the allocation.

Gerry Canavan
@gerrycanavan.bsky.social

If you worked with Wesleyan University Press on a book, check your Anthropic allocation. In the last few days they went through and assigned themselves 100% of the allocation.

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Ranged Touch
@rangedtouch.bsky.social

ME BEFORE LORD OF THE YEAR: where the hell is my arkenstone! ME AFTER LORD OF THE YEAR: well yes obviously John 10:16 is about faeries. Oh my god hold on my arkenstone is missing again

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Scott Selisker
@sselisker.bsky.social

Sent a quick note to a scholar whose work I admire shortly after seeing this, they replied warmly but briefly, our days were both a little better, 10/10 recommend.

Gerry Canavan@gerrycanavan.bsky.social

LLMs constantly sending these cloying, fawning fan letters as part of a "book club" scam has really ruined what used to be a very nice part about being a writer.