Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
Alexander Manshel
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A great piece on what REALLY happens in the room where it happens when what is happening is a Major Literary Prize!
And very cool to see echoes of what @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and I found in our own research on literary prize juries and the books they pick!
www.publicbooks.org/what-35-year...
My new essay, on "The Institution(s) of High School English," and the chasm that exists between high school and university English departments, is out now in Post45!
Such a pleasure to be thinking alongside this fabulous collection of teachers and scholars!
post45.org/2026/06/inst...
My new essay, on "The Institution(s) of High School English," and the chasm that exists between high school and university English departments, is out now in Post45!
Such a pleasure to be thinking alongside this fabulous collection of teachers and scholars!
post45.org/2026/06/inst...
Excited to head to Denmark next week for the Narrative conference, where I'll be talking about "The High School Canon & Its Genres"
“McGrath writes with a deft and dust-free feeling for scene and character that is matched by the depth and clarity of her analysis.”
@lbmcgrath.bsky.social with an absolute RAVE in the NYRB!
Such a fun conference and such an incredible honor to accept Narrative’s Perkins Prize for my book (including this handsome plaque)!
My summer course is about current trends in lit and we spend a few weeks on award winners so both these pieces will be so helpful!
"It's time to read the CliffsNotes, study the AP exam, and work alongside our high school colleagues"
I am extremely enthusiastic about the work @manshel.bsky.social is doing here. Also, he's a lot of fun to read.
Part of a crucial new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster
post45.org/2026/06/inst...
I assure you, you do not know who Xander is talking about, here: "By some measures, he is the most influential literary critic of the last century."
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"...we might mention an eccentric teacher or an idiosyncratic assignment, but "the American dream" and "the green light" and "the three witches" and "the balcony scene" pass between us as a kind of lingua franca..."
When it comes to the history of American education, Clifton Hillegass has not gotten his due. In his decades-long career, Hillegass’s name graced the cover of hundreds of books, works that have sold t...
When it comes to the history of American education, Clifton Hillegass has not gotten his due. In his decades-long career, Hillegass’s name graced the cover of hundreds of books, works that have sold t...
When it comes to the history of American education, Clifton Hillegass has not gotten his due. In his decades-long career, Hillegass’s name graced the cover of hundreds of books, works that have sold t...
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When it comes to the history of American education, Clifton Hillegass has not gotten his due. In his decades-long career, Hillegass’s name graced the cover of hundreds of books, works that have sold t...
A great piece on what REALLY happens in the room where it happens when what is happening is a Major Literary Prize!
And very cool to see echoes of what @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and I found in our own research on literary prize juries and the books they pick!
www.publicbooks.org/what-35-year...
Dan Sinykin
Ana Schwartz
A beautiful day to wake up to find this review of MIDDLEMEN in the New York Review of Books!
Excited to head to Denmark next week for the Narrative conference, where I'll be talking about "The High School Canon & Its Genres"
My new essay, on "The Institution(s) of High School English," and the chasm that exists between high school and university English departments, is out now in Post45!
Such a pleasure to be thinking alongside this fabulous collection of teachers and scholars!
post45.org/2026/06/inst...
📚New cluster!!
Ed. Robert LeBlanc
"The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more!
Check it out:
post45.org/sections/con...
📚New cluster!!
Ed. Robert LeBlanc
"The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more!
Check it out:
post45.org/sections/con...
Writers and readers and even editors have so many misunderstandings about how book prizes work. I’m not going to give anyone a stroke by revealing secrets of the judging room, BUT I want to tell you a whole lot of stuff that you probably don’t know 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/rebeccam...
With their blend of taste and market savvy, literary agents have been both invisible and necessary in contemporary American fiction.
When it comes to the history of American education, Clifton Hillegass has not gotten his due. In his decades-long career, Hillegass’s name graced the cover of hundreds of books, works that have sold t...
Writers and readers and even editors have so many misunderstandings about how book prizes work. I’m not going to give anyone a stroke by revealing secrets of the judging room, BUT I want to tell you a whole lot of stuff that you probably don’t know 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/rebeccam...
Rebecca Makkai
Contemporaries at Post45
Contemporaries at Post45
📚New cluster!!
Ed. Robert LeBlanc
"The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more!
Check it out:
post45.org/sections/con...
Rebecca Makkai
Edited by Robert J. LeBlanc and T. Phillip Nichols
