Steven Lang

Already feeling a little melancholy as fall sneaks in...

I'm excited! (Rare for me, exciting in itself.) "Why?" you might ask. Well, my short story, "Billy's Paradox," was recently named runner up in @press_53 's Prime Number Magazine Award for Short Fiction.

I'd be delighted if you took a look at the story:

www.press53.com/issue-277-pn...

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement  - The Authors Guild Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...

"The largest U.S. copyright settlement in history."

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Thanks, Obama! (And I mean it this time.)

Some more...

Quite a year, quite a week. At least we still have the Great Minnesota Get Together. Peace.

One great thing about film photography is that you have to wait to see your images. Another great thing is you can misplace a roll of film for long enough to forget what's on it. Here's one from winter 2020 that I just found. I had no idea what was on it. Brrrrr!!!

Sadly, one of the best improvements to Larpenteur Avenue is temporary - but for now, peds and bikes rule the road in Falcon Heights.

When worlds collide...

Opinion | Ocean Vuong on Becoming a Father to His Brother (Gift Article) Three weeks after my mother died, my brother moved in with me. In our grief I emerged as a kind of father.

If you appreciate and often return to artwork centered around love and loss, you will feel something achingly familiar about this piece by Ocean Vuong: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If Wisconsin offered Tim Walz a $40,000 Harley Davidson, the entire Republican Party would have a full melt down.

I'll be reading some new fiction at the Nokomis Library this Thursday, May 15, at 6:30 p.m. Would be thrilled to see you there!

Water, sun, and no bugs (yet)!!

My father used to say that the first thing that separated human beings from other animals was not language or art or music, but the ability to tie knots.

Been looking forward to reading this collection from CoffeeHouse press by the great Brian evanson, but I'm a little worried I may never sleep again...

Prince still crushing it #greatnorthernfestival

Rough 2025 so far, but at least it's cold enough to remember when it really used to get cold. #minnesota

Little Drummer Boy? (sorry couldn't help it)

I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

I recently completed a collaboration with West St. Paul artist Carolyn Swiszcz:

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“The NOvA Experiment” zine, with text by Steven Lang and illustrations by Carolyn Swiszcz, is now available on Etsy.

Please check it out!

So relieved that they *finally* installed some support for this short rusty very important useless pole.

For the writers out there... Switching social media platforms counts as writing.

It's actually funny to watch Turnip pressure Vance to stump for Gaetz. It's a loyalty test - the whole reason behind the nomination in the first place.

50% of Canadians live south of Duluth, and part of Canada is south of Detroit. This means moving from Minnesota to Canada is a parallel move at worst.

Decided to get the latest COVID vaccine while it's still legal.

2023: The year humanity became the primordial soup for the genesis of Artificial Intelligence. Let's hope that survival of the fittest doesn't apply to silicon. Either way, happy 2024!!