A hilarious, sobering look at how hustle culture has come to define modern academia, Maria Adelmann’s The Adjunct offers a twist on a tangled MeToo story and turns Sam’s downward spiral into a critique of class and the hollow promises of the American dream. Available March 31: bit.ly/3OLLaPP
I have a new article in @CTCJournal on the enchantments of copaganda. It's part of @GaetaAmy and @AlexAdams5's special issue on militarization & pleasure: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Following Biden's nomination of Elliott Abrams to the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, here's a repost of an article I wrote in Feb 2019 about Abrams as the embodiment of the sadism and duplicitousness of US empire: contemporarycondition.blogsp…
Related: new @yum_index patches @ink176 & I have in our Etsy shop etsy.com/listing/1344684591 Maria’s still a successful writer & I’m a thriving (?) PhD student, but we have the mental space for creating alt metal 🍕 puns
“How To Be Eaten” takes classic fairytales and a Bachelor-like reality show and twines them into a fresh tale of wronged women. Read more about the novel in @KaylaKumari’s review. bit.ly/3QvM92W
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Taped these quotes by @neilhimself & @AnneRiceAuthor on my wall, and re-read them often as I wrote HOW TO BE EATEN.
ALT Two quotes on piece of paper taped to wall. The quotes are: "Start telling the stories only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that -- but you are the only you." —Neil Gaiman // "Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less. Ignore critics, critics are a dime a dozen. Anybody can be a critic. Writers are priceless. Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you have been trying to find but have not found. But write. And remember, there are no rules for our profession. Ignore rules. Ignore what I say here if it doesn't help you. Do it your own way. Every writer knows fear and discouragement. Just write." —Anne Rice
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6/9 @ 5pm PT — Maria Adelmann (@ink176) reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma in How to Be Eaten. In conversation with Steve Almond (@stevealmondjoy).
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How to Be Eaten engages with true crime tropes. This article I wrote for CrimeReads is about other creators who interrogate the genre in smart & interesting ways. @yourwrongabout @AlexisSchaitkin @rachmonroe
Five years ago I wrote a little idea in my notebook under the heading "fairy tale novel," and today HOW TO BE EATEN is being released into the wild by @littlebrown! Link in bio for tonight's release event 🐺🍬💙🎥
"Saint, Michalski and Adelmann share a certain feminist outlook in these three literary retellings. And while their perspectives vary, they all focus more on how women learn to live their lives rather than on the wrongs they have endured."
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