Assistant Professor of English, Appalachian State University | singer-songwriter | a secret, cooler, third thing
Boone, NC
Joined January 2010
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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.
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.
ALT Photo of multiple copies of the book described in the previous image.
If I had to use a nasal band to improve my tennis performance, I’d probably go with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
I don't think I'm ever going to get used to the cool kids of gen-z dressing like Miles Davis in 1987
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.
Very nice to have my piece on Mike Davis and Malcolm Harris from last year included in this selection of LARB essays
@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/…
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.
These days, you can’t publish children’s fiction by a widely-suspected nonce; the sensitivity readers won’t allow it. These days…
Michael Docherty retweeted
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…
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.
Next semester's classes! (one a broad Gen Ed intro, the other an upper-level course with a tighter focus)
ALT Promo graphic for an introductory undergraduate course on African American literature
ALT Promo graphic for an undergraduate course on African American novels since 1945
[youth pastor voice] let me tell you about another great comeback by the Maccabees
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
