Kitchen Table History

Kitchen Table History

marginalia no. 4

"...this manifesto is an invitation not to humanize ourselves, but to relate." - Joseph Pierce

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Jessica Marie Johnson
Nov 03, 2025
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Print will never die. (But the brutality of the academic peer review process could definitely be amended.) Marginalia below….

Louisiana Writers’ Project, Louisiana; a Guide to the State, American Guide Series (Hastings House, 1941).
Christina Sharpe, “Introduction,” in Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture 2023 (Alchemy by Knopf Canada, 2024).
Joseph M. Pierce, “A Manifesto for Speculative Relations,” in Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture 2023 (Alchemy by Knopf Canada, 2024).

Joseph M. Pierce, “A Manifesto for Speculative Relations,” in Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture 2023 (Alchemy by Knopf Canada, 2024).

Joseph M. Pierce, “A Manifesto for Speculative Relations,” in Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture 2023 (Alchemy by Knopf Canada, 2024).
Joseph M. Pierce, “A Manifesto for Speculative Relations,” in Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture 2023 (Alchemy by Knopf Canada, 2024). (might be might favorite this week)
Joseph M. Pierce, “A Manifesto for Speculative Relations,” in Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture 2023 (Alchemy by Knopf Canada, 2024).

Joseph M. Pierce, “A Manifesto for Speculative Relations,” in Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture 2023 (Alchemy by Knopf Canada, 2024).

Robin Coste Lewis, Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2025). (Late night reading….)

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