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Michael Docherty @maybeavalon

Assistant Professor of English, Appalachian State University | singer-songwriter | a secret, cooler, third thing

Joined January 2010
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Michael Docherty@maybeavalon
6 May 2024
My first book, The Recursive Frontier, technically came out (from @SUNYPress) last week, but I delayed posting about until my author copies arrived so I could do an obligatory unboxing photo. It's (mostly) a multiethnic literary history of Los Angeles between the '30s and '50s.
Photo of a book cover: "The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles," by Michael Docherty. The cover image is a black and white aerial image of Los Angeles.

ALT Photo of a book cover: "The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles," by Michael Docherty. The cover image is a black and white aerial image of Los Angeles.

Photo of multiple copies of the book described in the previous image.

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If I had to use a nasal band to improve my tennis performance, I’d probably go with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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I don't think I'm ever going to get used to the cool kids of gen-z dressing like Miles Davis in 1987
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Becoming an "interested in the Sumerians" guy, this might be my new thing
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Medieval English Me, claiming Sumeria singers is the cool new trend 🤝 "Sumer is icumen in!"
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The thing about Nancy Pelosi is that she is to her very core a hater. One of the few truly great haters in contemporary US politics. An LBJ-level hater. I have to respect this.
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Very nice to have my piece on Mike Davis and Malcolm Harris from last year included in this selection of LARB essays
Los Angeles Review of Books@LAReviewofBooks
7 Nov 2024
Replying to @MedayaO @vcwills @brouillettese @dvarimbealma
@maybeavalon's review and essay on what Malcolm Harris’s history of Palo Alto owes to Mike Davis’s histories of Los Angeles: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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Purely anecdotal but driving around NC over the past month i saw a lot of small signs saying things like “TRUMP low taxes / HARRIS high taxes” and as dishonest as that may be I’m struck by Democrats’ inability to condense and simplify a message, any message, comparably.
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Today I saw a billboard that said “Kamala Harris supports raising the minimum wage.” That sounds weak and selective and is barely legible while driving. Why didn’t it say “Kamala will give you a pay rise”? Early/mid-20th century political communication was much better at this!
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The best are full of passionate intensity, while the worst are full of passionate intensity
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Car wash token-looking coin
Carolyn Harris@royalhistorian
4 Nov 2024
King Charles III on Canadian currency
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These days, you can’t publish children’s fiction by a widely-suspected nonce; the sensitivity readers won’t allow it. These days…
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JCO remains undefeated; most baffling poster of all time
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Why are they making him open his Christmas presents at a press conference in November?
Liverpool FC
@LFC
4 Nov 2024
'It's a big European tie' 👊 Arne Slot's pre-Bayer Leverkusen press conference 🗣️
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Every time I see another poll
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Michael Docherty retweeted
olivia stowell@oliviastowell
1 Nov 2024
i was so excited to interview Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu for @mid_theory’s On The Scene feature column about the return of their INCREDIBLE podcast @HighTheoryPodc1 from hiatus! read more from Kim and Saronik here: mid-theory.com/2024/11/01/on…

On the Scene: The Return of “High Theory”

High Theory is one of my favorite podcasts. Each episode of the show brings in an expert to discuss a key term, ranging from “disintermediation” to “Black trans feminism” to “aunties.” Hosted by Ki…

mid-theory.com
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Movie goofs you never noticed: in CASPER (1995), rock and roll icon Little Richard appears as himself as a ghost, singing the closing theme, despite the fact he would not actually pass away until 2020.
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[wearing a breton stripe t-shirt and being vaguely annoying] "I'm Pugsley Addams"
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Next semester's classes! (one a broad Gen Ed intro, the other an upper-level course with a tighter focus)
Promo graphic for an introductory undergraduate course on African American literature

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Promo graphic for an undergraduate course on African American novels since 1945

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[youth pastor voice] let me tell you about another great comeback by the Maccabees
The Maccabees@themaccabees
28 Oct 2024
We’re very excited to say we are getting back together to headline @allpointseastuk on Sunday, August 24th. Pre-sale is Wednesday 10am and general on sale Thursday 10am. Good luck. We’re looking forward to seeing you at Victoria Park. With love, The Maccabees x
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Irony has been dead for decades but they keep digging it up and kicking its corpse around for fun
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