Chloe Lutts Jensen

How Trump’s War on Higher Education Is Hitting Community Colleges

Ben Austen on community colleges as essential sponsors of American is both well researched and moving: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...

I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes Homelessness in America has reached crisis levels, and I am determined to do everything in my power to fix the problem as long as it doesn’t involv...

I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes by Homa Mojtabai www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

Agnes and the Cemetery Bus - The Forge Literary Magazine Agnes and the Cemetery Bus, flash fiction by Susan Rose April

Our story of the week is Agnes and the Cemetery Bus by Susan Rose April.

Little Death Born Again — Split Lip Magazine The whole congregation, apart from a few noobs recruited at last night’s street-preach, knows the story of Mary Magdalene washing Christ’s feet with her tears. How on bended knee she wiped them clean ...

"Phil, whose long curls catch auburn in the light, thinks the Bible is not specific on Mary’s hair color, but Pastor Bob knows it was harlot red. And Pastor Bob is tight with God." ❤️‍🔥

Short Fiction by @eleanorfuller.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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New Online Issue: The Pornhub Literary Supplement — Barrelhouse Our new online issue is tailored for the sophisticated consumer of online smut and similar, interested in elevating their online browsing habits to the highest level.

Quite enjoying this weird little online issue by @barrelhouse.bsky.social , especially stories by @elizabethendicott.bsky.social and @sashabrown.bsky.social

www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/new-onl...

Sylvia Chan's "Never Stay Still," out now in HFR Issue 76, is a beautifully vulnerable and layered essay about the challenges of centering your own experience in a family narrative, and I was honored to ask her a few questions about the writing process for the HFR blog:

Every Upbringing Is an Indoctrination - Electric Literature “The Cult” by Mel Kassel, recommended by Wynter K Miller for Electric Literature

“The Cult” by Mel Kassel in @electricliterature.com:
electricliterature.com/the-cult-by-...

Come visit me at the HFR table at #AWP25!

Why Gen X Women Are Having the Best Sex In an era plagued by sex negativity, only one generation seems immune: mine.

“Primed for hard-core jungle combat in a pencil skirt [she now] finds herself in a womblike bouncy castle where women are invited not just to have orgasms but also to have important conversations about their orgasms.”

Great article by @mireillesilcoff.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/m...

The Imperfectionist: Seventy per cent @media only screen { .email * { word-break: break-word; } } @media screen and (max-width: 384px) { .mail-message-content { width: 414px !important; } } @media only screen and (m...

"shooting for 100% is the equivalent of pointlessly straining to lift a dumbbell you can’t possibly lift, then usually giving up, resolving that when you try again tomorrow you’ll magically be strong enough."

@oliverburkeman.com on seeing imperfection as better:

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What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction? From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on.

In a delightfully contrarian article for @newyorker.com , Daniel Immerwahr argues (persuasively!) that our panic over attention spans is just the latest episode in a long history of hand-wringing over what people are paying attention TO. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

My Mother's Death Is a Government Disaster - Electric Literature Two poems by Nicholas Montemarano

"DisasterAssistance.gov" by Nicholas Montemarano in
@electriclit.bsky.social

electricliterature.com/two-poems-by...

HFR’s Fiction & Poetry Contest opens February 1!

Regular submissions are $23, but if you subscribe to our newsletter by February 3rd, you'll be the first to know when we're offering a free submissions window! Sign up now, and get your work ready: haydensferryreview.substack.com

Fix Your Glutes. Fix Your Life. I didn’t appreciate their utility — and paid for it.

“Like a chess pawn or kangaroo, I biologically lack the capacity to backpedal.”

A fun, funny, and philosophical essay about butt muscles from Amy X. Wang:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/m...

Mark Zuckerberg and Meta Abandon Fact-Checking From the daily newsletter: Facebook and Instagram’s new approach to the facts. Plus: Jimmy Carter rests; why Justin Trudeau had to step down; and the view from the limo driver.

“Facebook launched its fact-checking program after Donald Trump was first elected. Now that resistance appears out of fashion, the company has decided to end it.” The head of our fact-checking department writes about Meta’s decision to stop checking facts.

Breaking Glass | Alex Cocotas The cosmopolitan creative class has exhausted their bohemian version of Berlin.

“I thought I would live here for a year, maybe two.”

Alex Cocotas on the eternal appeal of Berlin, and how it’s changing, in @thebaffler.com

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My favorite books of the year included novels by @rkr.bsky.social and @colsonwhitehead.com and story collections by Leigh Newman and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Here are 11 of my favorites, and why you might like them too: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Signed Away | Sara Nović The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.

Read @novicsara.bsky.social on signing in @thebaffler.com

"Just as spoken languages evolve according to the necessities of a given group, a signed language develops organically within a given deaf populace and reflects that community’s era and expectations."

thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...

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Call for submissions: The Commuter. Short prose, poetry, and graphic narratives. Open through 12/10 or until cap is reached. Each category capped at 376 submissions. More info on EL’s Submittable page

Submissions to The Commuter are OPEN! We want to see your short prose, poetry, and graphic narratives. Each category will be capped at 375 submissions, so don't wait to submit! https://buff.ly/3PoeZ6l