Neal Lulofs

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

They tried intimidation. Minnesota answered with people.

Mood in minneapolis right now

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

The Position of the Sun by Neal Lulofs — The Normal School I can’t help but wonder what my life would have been like if my father hadn’t been driving through that intersection at that moment. Would I have stayed in college? Would I have been a better person? ...

Grateful to the editors of The Normal School lit mag for publishing my story in their new issue. #fiction #writingcommunity #fictionwriting #switchbacktime www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2025/11...

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Update from the war zone in Portland.

Autism phenotype versus registered diagnosis in Swedish children: prevalence trends over 10 years in general population samples Objective To compare the annual prevalence of the autism symptom phenotype and of registered diagnoses for autism spectrum disorder during a 10 year period in children. Design Population based study....

A large study in Sweden found levels of autism *symptoms* were constant over time, even as autism *diagnoses* increased (implying broadening diagnostic criteria rather than real underlying increase) www.bmj.com/content/350/...

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

Hah! @newyorker.com #humor

BREAKING: In a stunning moment of defiance, Maine's Governor Janet Mills stands up to Trump, saying she is complying with state and federal (anti-discrimination) law, and will see him in court over his threat to withhold federal funds.

This is incredible.

They are angry that a judge restored a public website providing life-saving resources from the CDC, FDA, and HHS.

Absolute POS

I’ll never get over that all of this was avoidable and our kids could’ve had a better future had voters just made the obviously rational choice in November. It’s water under the bridge now. But what the fuck, people.

Biden added more jobs to the economy than Trump, Obama, or Bush The U.S. economy added 2.23 million jobs in 2024, including 256,000 in the final full month of Biden's presidency.

More jobs have been created under Biden than during the full terms of Trump, Obama, or Bush 43. @danprimack.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/01/10/i...

The State of Local News

Since 2005, more than 3,200 print newspapers have vanished. Newspapers continue to disappear at a rate of more than two per week; in the past year alone, 130 newspapers have shut their doors.

Tweet by Bharat Ramamurti criticizing Joe Manchin for allegedly consigning millions of children to poverty due to his belief that poor parents used 2021 child tax credit payments to buy drugs. Below is a tweet by Josh McCabe refuting this, stating, 'Study confirms parents didn’t use their CTC to buy drugs in 2021,' with a quote from the study noting no significant association between child tax credit payments and drug use.

Villains don’t always wear red hats.

A handful of my favorite reads this year. #writers #fiction #books

I cannot stress this enough, write what you’d want to read. Not what you think someone else wants to read.

Read Your Way Around Chicago (Gift Article) Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past and present. The author Rebecca Makkai recommends works that capture its spirit.

I would add the great Stuart Dybek to this list www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...

Remember the FBI informant who claimed President Biden took millions in bribes from Burisma?

He admitted today in federal court that he made the whole thing up.

And that he started spinning new lies after meeting with Russian intelligence.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Revision is a lifestyle #fiction #amwriting #writingcommunity

What Alice Munro Knew (Gift Article) The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent?

Haunting www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/m...

Bend OR here

You know you're old when you're entering your birth year online and you have to spin that thing like you're on Wheel of Fortune.

Read my lit fiction story nominated for the 2025 Best of the Net anthology #booksky #fiction www.theswannanoareview.com/issue1/neall...

We named our rescue from PR "Rico"