Bill Trippe

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Goodreads only let me give five stars to “Moby Dick.”

Hardly seems fair.

short fiction contest — Boulevard $1,500 and publication in Boulevard awarded to the winning story by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press.

Our Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers is open and accepting work until December 31. The winning entry will receive $1500. Read our guidelines and submit!
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Submissions are closed, but you can still read digital issues of our review on our website:

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Check out our previous issues and get inspired to create and submit next year!

Photo is of our editors at our recent annual reading event.

#newwriting #emergingartists

#UPWeek 2025 acknowledges the daily contributions of all members of this global community. Let’s celebrate our shared strength and power when we #TeamUP! 🥇
Check out @aupresses.bsky.social's gallery and reading list to see the important projects created by UPs this year: beav.es/4KG❗
#ReadUP

“November supposedly renders thin the veil”

From “The Sentence” by Louise Erdrich, reflecting on All Souls Day and the boundary between the living and the dead.

“Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm?”

Reading “Moby Dick” again, for the story, for the characters, and for language like this.

University of Pennsylvania Locust Walk on campus.

Penn Releases Text of Compact Rejection Letter https://bit.ly/4oIHNG7

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

Large, mature grey and white make tabby cat, curled up in a wicker basket. The basket has a large yellow towel, making it clear that the purpose of the basket is for the cat to sleep in.

This great 2012 picture of the late, great Mosey appeared in my timeline.?

Acela 2167 Boston to NY
Quiet car
Window seat

Not too shabby

Firing artillery over a highway?

“Now, the California Highway Patrol is reporting that a CHP cruiser parked on an onramp of Interstate 5 was hit by falling shrapnel after an artillery round exploded midair, far earlier than intended, forcing an early end to the artillery demonstration.”

Same!

This is a book I’ve wanted to read for years—it did not disappoint.

www.lizamundy.com/code-girls/

What of the student who has been a victim finding out in mid-semester that her professor took some of that money?

A friend recommended Jennifer Haigh to me early this year and I have now read everything she has written except for the newest book.

Beautiful writing and deep empathy for her characters

YouTube video by AustinCityLimitsTV Guy Clark, "L.A. Freeway," Austin City Limits

Just a great song

OpenAI’s Waterloo will be trying to understand the Hoboken Squat Cobbler

Goodreads Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

Jayne Anne Phillips “Machine Dreams” moved me beyond words when I read it in graduate school 40 years ago. This wonderful book — Night Watch — is doing the same thing.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/62...

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

The 2025 National Academy of Engineering Annual Meeting begins this Sunday, October 5 — featuring new member inductions, lectures on how AI is reshaping engineering solutions and society, and much more.

Register to attend: https://ow.ly/kGaw50X4wVA

We are looking for poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while still alluding to the basic things that make us human.

Send us work that explores October’s theme of space/place!

November’s upcoming theme is community!

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#writingcommunity

AI Is Redefining the Concept of a Programming Language's Popularity Python reigns supreme again, but is AI changing the game for programming languages? Find out how coding is transforming.

The year’s top programming languages — and wondering what that means in the age of AI

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War-ravaged Portland, 5 minutes ago

This is the type of leadership we need — not Trump and RFK Jr. fearmongering about the dangers of Tylenol for pregnant women.

YouTube video by Bethgile When Fall Comes to New England

Look past this goofy thumbnail image and listen to a glorious song

Britain’s greatest Victorian poet was once a chain-smoking teenage vandal If you picture Alfred, Lord Tennyson as an austere sexagenarian, try again

I knew it!

www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

That is impressive!

Tall athletic dog standing outside in a yard. Black and white coat reminiscent of a Great Dane but He’s a pure bread Danish Scotcheroo, Call Name Beetle, Champion Name Prince Albert of the Tobacco Cans

While my son and daughter-in-law are on their honeymoon, we are watching their dog. He’s a pure bread Danish Scotcheroo, Call Name Beetle, Champion Name Prince Albert of the Tobacco Cans.

#DogsOfBlueSky

Face on photo of a mature, grey tabby, looking to his left, polydactyl paws crossed in front of of him.

Mosey, in repose

Not only was he wicked handsome, he was polydactyl!

#Caturday

The Ig Nobels are science’s most lighthearted event. This year is ‘not typical’ Amid Trump research cuts, visa restrictions, and international conflicts, some winners sit out the celebration of whimsical science

Amid Trump research cuts, visa restrictions, and international conflicts, some winners sit out this year’s Ig Nobels. https://scim.ag/4mqbzOe