Post45 is a collective of scholars working on American literature and culture since 1945. The group was founded in 2006 and has met annually since to discuss new work in the field. Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer. A financial advisor drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder money to appease a drug boss. We got mostly money from our guests at our wedding, but some bought us things from our registry. (I am still waiting for my flatware to ship, those will be my fancy flatware… it’ll go with my fancy plates that I’ll use only during the holidays, ha!) Since I don’t have any of my cooking utensils, we have been eating out every day (or eating Cup O’Noodles… it’s like college all over again), so I have not been grocery shopping, and am a bit depress waiting for the furniture because of all the empty space.

Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. T. J. Clark, Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), 18. [ ⤒] Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one--the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther ... See full summary» A private detective's protected female witness is murdered, prompting him and the victim's boyfriend to investigate the crime that leads to a corrupt politician and a crooked football team owner.Elizabeth Goodstein, Experience without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005), 98. [ ⤒] Boredom is a state of detachment. It involves an inability, or an unwillingness, to engage with the objects in one's immediate reality and find them interesting or meaningful. Why detach? In certain cases, boredom could arise if the bored person has not received the appropriate training to appreciate the object or situation they find boring. (Imagine my stuttering dismay when a class of students informed me that they found Middlemarchdull.) Such boredom is, in theory, correctible. Nothing is boring to the mind of God: a supremely cultivated intelligence can find interest and value in any phenomenon, no matter how minor. A 1930s American socialite creates a scandal in the expatriate high society of the Amalfi Coast of Italy when she forms a secretive relationship with a wealthy American unbeknownst to his young wife. In the course of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, an aristocratic, worldly mode of resignation yielded to bourgeois withdrawal into the "interior" — literally, of the home and, figuratively, of the self. Through this discursive shift from public mourning to private suffering, from collective to individual forms of malaise . . . a modern conception of subjectivity came into being. Gazing away from the camera, Rebekah flashed plenty of flesh as she showed off her incredible figure.

Sonya tells Yelena: "boredom and idleness are catching" — a reflection of Chekhov's understanding of boredom as a pathology requiring diagnosis (203). See Elizabeth M. Phillips, "Chekhov, Boredom, and Pathology as Dramatic Technique," Modern Drama63, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 39-62. [ ⤒] The first days of the pandemic were sharp with a sense of danger. Boredom seemed impossible. I felt as if my actions counted, as if my choices during this moment of historical fissure were freighted with significance. The feeling soon wore off. The long hours in my apartment turned flat and stale.A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling. I owe this observation about the coffee filter as hourglass to Ivone Margulies, who in turn credits the insight to the Belgian art critic Thierry de Duve. Margulies, Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996), 78. [ ⤒] The novel is set on a Sunday, when Debashish has asked Trina to meet her at a bus stop in south Calcutta. Trina is all confused about what to do. And so is Debashish. But despite the confusion, they both go to Debashish’s house, and the inevitable happens. Trina wants to walk out on her family and move in with Debashish, and so does Debashish. A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.