Dan Sinykin
former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
- If you're thinking seriously about slop (and we should) consider applying for this virtual mini-conference hosted by the great @dlcplus.org on SLOP call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...
- Oulipo constraint: write a novel with AI suggestions on, running ahead of the text in faint projections, and turn away, reject, deny every single one.
- High school teachers and college teachers unite!
- I had a great conversation with @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social on the what/why/how of close reading. There’s much to be gained by creating connective tissue between literary studies & secondary English, so I’m excited to share this episode! open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...
- Johanna Winant and I talked with Trevor Aleo about why close reading matters now, and about our book, Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century @johannawinant.bsky.social @mraleosays.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social trevoraleo.substack.com/p/drs-dan-si...
- ah, forgot the best class i took in college: "concluding unscientific postscript"
- among everything else this week dunno if you heard but coding is over. huge opp for humanities folks. should be megaphoning 'learning to think never goes out of style'
