Jennifer Pullen

Thank you!!!

Thank you!

Thank you! And trying my best, lol

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Thank you!

Newborn baby wrapped in a blanket.

On September 26th, my husband and I got the call from the adoption agency, a birth mom had picked us. So with 3 hours notice, we became parents of a newborn. Everyone, meet Ezran!

How fun!

I don't have editing privileges, but she is welcome to issue the correction that The New Yorker is one of the few remaining, but not the only. We are all capable of making errors, myself included. :)

Polaris National Undergraduate Magazine

Polaris, an national award winning undergraduate journal, is open to all undergrads for submissions from Sept. 1st to Feb 1st. All submissions are entered into our free contest. If you are an undergrad, please submit, if you are a teacher, refer your students.
polarisliterarymagazine.com

thank you, and that's great to hear! I had completely missed that. I'm glad to hear more of such exceptions to the general trend continuing to exist, even under the radar! The more writers getting paid the better!

A Legacy of Class: The Parallel Worlds of Literary and Genre Magazine Publishing "...distinct literary ecosystems..."

I wrote a guest blog post for @beckyltuch.bsky.social on her Lit Mag News, focused the history of the separation between "literary" and "genre" magazines. Check it out!
litmagnews.substack.com/p/a-legacy-o...

J. Ashley-Smith holds up a copy of Kathe Koja's new novel Dark Matter.

Privileged AF to get my grubby mitts on an ARC of this near-future fever dream. Avail yourselves of a copy - and a pair of knee-high railroad spike boots - the split second it drops!

@kkoja.bsky.social @meerkatpress.bsky.social

meerkatpress.com/books/dark-m...

Brown tabby cat next to the book Great Disasters by Grady Chambers.

Dr. Pullen and her TA Fidil recommend Great Disasters by Grady Chambers from @tinhouse.bsky.social. This novel of coming of age in early 2000s Chicago is at once tender towards its characters, and utterly afraid to show them at their best and worst, all in lucid and lovely prose. #purrfectreads

Hedgebrook is hiring:
www.hedgebrook.org/about-us/car...

The first ONU English Reading Series event on 9/16 will feature the wonderful @alisonstine.bsky.social
The event is free and open to the public. It begins at 7 pm, preceded by a catered reception, in the Wilson Hall Elzay Gallery of Art. @ohionorthern.bsky.social

The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, A Ghost Story, The Endless.

I love the face that hawk is making. So imperious, and slightly annoyed. Lol.

Praying mantis on a wall.

I had a visitor this week. It was almost as large as the palm of my hand!

My entire college class from last semester could tell that reviewer (you all know the one) that they've misunderstood Frankenstein. Sigh.

How I feel almost every time I open a program on my computer these days.

The comment period for the attempt to rescind the Endangerment finding (the basis for all US regulation of greenhouse gas emissions) goes until the 22nd of Sept. Please comment and tell them not to rescind this finding, if they do, we are in HUGE trouble.
www.regulations.gov/docket/EPA-H...

The Roadless Rule does a huge amount to protect wild areas against wildfires, the vast majority of which begin near roads. It's super easy to leave a comment urging them to keep the Roadless Rule and protect against fires. Comments like this make a big impact! www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS...

Monarch butterfly balanced on a milkweed amongst tall grass.

A monarch sighting on campus this week!

Every time someone tells the orange menace "make me" and refuses to be intimidated, matters.

This is absolutely catastrophic for U.S. higher education, and for U.S. global leadership. Just the latest in a series of senseless acts of self-sabotage by a malevolent administration bent on making the United States weak and poor.

Dr. Pullen and her TA Fidil recommend The Secret Market of the Dead by Giovanni De Feo. This Italian fantasy is dark, lush and unforgettable. The coming of age story at its core gives it heart, its imagery gives it soul. I fell into this book & didn't want to come out. #purrfectreads

The first day of the 25/26 school year is in the books! It was also the first day of my 15th year of teaching!

You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.

“We” is more important here.

This is a nifty freelance job:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...