Okay for anyone else tempted by Tiktok: Minerals and Chill tastes like ass and that A313 cream from French Pharmacy made my face itch. Also I refuse to buy anything Halara because the quality looks terrible.
My favorite is interlibrary loan. Some random library halfway across the world is like, some stranger wants to borrow this irreplaceable book? Sure, let me send that out.
lmao — blocked
To the point that I had to check your interview with @dryan.bsky.social to double check whether this family, and Carlyle, IL, weren’t your inspiration!
*taps internet microphone*
After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ...
We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ...
lithub.com/what-was-los...
Driving to and from Carbondale, I accidentally discovered a pig farming family dynasty and the town sustained by it, and now I have to go read @joeyhedger.bsky.social’s Deliver Thy Pigs again.
Fuck all the way off with this. The student protesters were physically attacked -- some of them maimed permanently with life-altering injuries -- and relentlessly persecuted, doxxed, and hounded by school administrators, local police, and federal authorities while their attackers remain untouched.
i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this
yo the lighting in this bathroom is 🔥
How it’s playing in France. 🤡
recommendation: teach high schoolers how to write a sestina
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BTW—if you teach my book in your contemporary fiction or queer fiction or voice in fiction or creative writing class, I will do a site visit or join by Zoom, at your request!
I may have left academia, but I still believe strongly in education and fostering creative and curious learners.
america’s “thinkers” are jacking off to corpses
Hello from Sweden 🇸🇪
I am here this week giving lectures and learning about an educational system in a country with a social safety net.
For starters, undergraduate education is free and doctoral students are treated as employees, including paid medical and parental leave.
Tonight I am staying in a surreal hotel and casino outside Carbondale because I’m tabling at a conference at SIU for work tomorrow, and I swear to you, this place is just like Vegas. You can have Vegas at home (if that’s what you want).
New blurb for HAIR SHIRT just dropped
tech's only invention is the digital plantation
every campaign to pilfer something public to make it private is only and ever only to enable the hyper wealthy to exert more control on the rest of us
(while creating 1-6 more billionaires to do it alongside them)
"There is a particular kind of danger that smells like paper and dust. You find it in independent bookshops...Places where no algorithm is trying to guess who you are before you have the chance to change your mind."
bulletin boards enable browsing! and connection! and taste making!
they are incredible!
bring back bulletin boards!
people feel disconnected from themselves and each other because tech is trying to make us into boring, solipsistic consumers
to feel alive you have to TRY things and FIND things and exercise and refine your taste
browsing that is not filtered by a recommendation engine increases the chance of taking risks and experiencing real discovery
the lack of bulletin boards is also part of a larger problem in the modern agae, which is the lack of opportunities to BROWSE
bulletin boards for the revolution
(i'm dead serious)
advertising your coffee shop reading or open mic should be as easy as posting on the bulletin board in the space
going to the internet to find a bassist for your band is absurd
you should be able to post on a bulletin board and hold auditions
i swear bulletin boards are also a key part of local culture making in terms of local music scenes, local design aesthetics, and local art making
