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Feldman100 Morton Feldman (1926–1987), a leading figure of the New York School alongside John Cage, Earle Brown and Christian Wolff, transformed the landscape of contemporary music with his quiet, expansiv...

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The University at Buffalo, where Morton Feldman (1926-1987) was Edgard Varèse Professor of Music Composition from 1973 to 1987, will host a Feldman@100 Celebration featuring talks and concert performances on January 12 & 13th of 2026 at the UB North Campus. Link is in comments.

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

I just added SO many books to my list! Hats off to @miriamgershow.bsky.social and all the reviewers and @literaryhub.bsky.social for putting together this incredibly vital, necessary, and good guide to the indies this year. Please do read! lithub.com/100-notable-...

Buffalo Area Poetry & Literature Calendar (week of Dec. 1 to Dec. 7) - Fitz Books hosts a visit by debut novelist Sam Sussman, author of the acclaimed auto-fictional novel Boy From the North Country this Saturday evening. Plus, five other events in the […]

Fitz Books hosts a visit by debut novelist Sam Sussman, author of the acclaimed auto-fictional novel Boy From the North Country this Saturday evening. Plus, five other events in the community. @thebuffalohive.bsky.social

I’ll be discussing Language Machines with Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social and Mike Lipkin @mlipkin.bsky.social at the Sem Coop on Dec 12
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How to Make Each Moment Count by Brandon Williamson - Just Buffalo Literary Center | Buffalo, NY Read "How to Make Each Moment Count" by Brandon Williamson - part of the Poem of the Week series, curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.

Later today (11/30), Brandon Williamson will host the November Pure Ink Poetry Slam at the Em Tea Coffeecup Café in Buffalo. On Wednesday (12/3) he appears in The Literary Café Series at the Center for Inquiry, 1310 Sweet Home Rd. in Amherst, NY.

YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO Bob Dylan - Series Of Dreams (Official Video)

You do know about this Dylan song, right Amber?

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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

". . .but I never despaired about my students, who, when our conditions allowed it, showed me again and again how close reading requires and multiplies both trust and strength."

Thank you @johannawinant.bsky.social for this ♥️

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Buffalo Area Poetry & Literature Calendar (week of Nov. 24 to Nov. 30) - Wednesday Night Live with Bianca L. McGraw is one highlight of this week’s events in the Buffalo literary community. Tuesday, Nov. 25, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Tuesday Night Open […]

Wednesday Night Live with Bianca L. McGraw is one highlight of this week's events in the Buffalo literary community.

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The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.

"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends."

The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...

In Buffalo, we were fortunate enough to host Omar twice around the writing and publishing of the book. At
@justbuffalolit.bsky.social in late November of 2023, and at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in March of this year. It was Talking Leaves Books here that sponsored both events.

A provocative bestseller wins the National Book Award for nonfiction Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” criticizes Western indifference to civilian suffering in Gaza.

Congratulations to Omar El Akkad, who received the National Book Award in nonfiction for “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” a book about Western indifference to civilian suffering in Gaza.

I've not yet read Rabih Alameddine's "The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother," the 2025 Fiction winner. But I hope to, and I hope someday we can bring him to Buffalo.

Congratulations to Omar El Akkad (nonfiction) and Patricia Smith (poetry) for receiving 2025 National Book Awards. Omar won for "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" and Patricia for "The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems." Photo below is of Rabih Alameddine.

Buffalo Area Poetry & Literature Calendar (week of Nov. 17 to Nov. 23) - The Just Buffalo Literary Center BABEL Author Series lecture featuring Hernan Diaz headlines this week in the Buffalo literary community’s events. Wednesday, Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m.: The Screening Room Rea...

The Just Buffalo Literary Center BABEL Author Series lecture featuring Hernan Diaz headlines this week in the Buffalo literary community’s events.

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Pope Leo XIV from Chicago can't rescue the American 'brand' (if you want to call it that) around the world, but he is a significant moral counterweight against Trump the transactionalist.

Pope Bob from Chicago can't rescue the American 'brand' (if you want to call it that) around the world, but he is a significant moral counterweight against Trump the transactionalist.

But his principled pushback against Trumpism, oligarchic capitalism, anti-immigrant xenophobia, and especially the musings of that fledgling theologian J.D. Vance, is a joy to behold.

We shouldn't expect too much from him doctrinally, because he is already way to the Left of the American bishops and Cardinals on most issues, and might trigger a schism or mutiny if he relaxes the Church's positions on reproductive rights and LGBQTIA+ rights around the world.

Both the great Irish writers Fintan O'Toole and Colm Toibin, who was in Buffalo last month, agree that if the U.S. didn't have the current president that we have, the Conclave probably would not have picked a highly qualified internationalist American, Robert Francis Prevost, to lead the Church.

Pope Leo calls out 'extremely disrespectful' treatment of migrants in the U.S. The U.S.-born pope has spoken out several times against his native country's treatment of migrants in the U.S.

The U.S.-born pope has spoken out several times against his native country's treatment of migrants in the U.S. n.pr/4i4exY4

In Alex Karp’s World, Palantir Is the Underdog In this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we get to know Palantir CEO Alex Karp and dive into what his answers in a recent WIRED interview reveal about the larger beliefs driving the tech industry today.

In this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we get to know Palantir CEO Alex Karp and dive into what his answers in a recent WIRED interview reveal about the larger beliefs driving the tech industry today. www.wired.com/story/uncann...

I send you salutations from Buffalo.

I send you salutations from Buffalo.

She served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2006. In 2011, she received Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. She lives in Guilford, Connecticut.

Susan is professor emerita of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she held the Samuel P. Capen Chair of Poetry and the Humanities.

Chipping Sparrow by Susan Howe - Just Buffalo Literary Center | Buffalo, NY Read "Chipping Sparrow" by Susan Howe - part of the Poem of the Week series, curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.

@justbuffalolit.bsky.social poem of the week is "Chipping Sparrow," the concluding poem in Susan Howe's new collection Penitential Cries (New Directions, 2025).

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library presents Indie Author Day 2025 on Saturday - The event runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m at its Central Branch, 1 Lafayette Square in Buffalo. Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.: The Buffalo and […]

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library presents Indie Author Day 2025 on Saturday, 11/5. thebuffalohive.com/the-buffalo-...

What Does It Mean to be Human? (According to Philosopher Alexandre Kojève) Today, the notion and status of the human have become more and more problematic. We speak about human history as the epoch of the Anthropocene—an epoch that has led to the current global ecological…

"Kojève’s course on Hegel was attended by such leading figures of French intellectual life as Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, André Breton, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Raymond Aron...the transcripts were widely read in Parisian intellectual circles that encompassed Sartre and Camus among others."