Andy Oler

She also covered her right arm in temporary tattoos. True commitment.

Two people standing side by side. A woman dressed in Halloween costume like the man, with light pants, a checked shirt, gray beard, and glasses

I’ve been given the highest honor

"A poet reacts to the immigration crackdown in his hometown the way he knows best: through verse."
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@joseolivarez.bsky.social is the foreword author of LINGERING INLAND, edited by @andyoler.bsky.social
cc: @chicagomag.com

Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide? "It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.

Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.

Look at that beautiful cover! Look at those beautiful people! @rosstangedal.bsky.social @dawnburns.bsky.social @leahamilne.bsky.social

Five people standing in front of a banner for Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest

Here we are—what a fun panel! @rosstangedal.bsky.social @dawnburns.bsky.social @leahamilne.bsky.social @indianahumanities.bsky.social

Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest Indiana Humanities will celebrate the power of writing that grows in the Midwest during Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest on Oct. 10 and 11, offering a full schedule for writers, readers, and lovers of all th...

It’s free, and the lineup is stacked! indianahumanities.org/program/proof/

Gray-bearded man sitting at a table with New Territory magazine merch, with a basketball hoop and several tables in the background

Come visit me and The New Territory at Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest!

Literary Landscapes of the Midwest - Indiana Humanities This panel will feature a conversation about Midwestern literature that travels widely through time and space—beginning with hyperlocal experience and building toward a larger mosaic of the diverse st...

Boarding a flight for Indy—come join us tomorrow at Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest! indianahumanities.org/event/litera...

Thanks—it's been amazing to work on!

Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest Indiana Humanities will celebrate the power of writing that grows in the Midwest during Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest on Oct. 10 and 11, offering a full schedule for writers, readers, and lovers of all th...

I'll be at Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest this weekend with @dawnburns.bsky.social @leahamilne.bsky.social @rosstangedal.bsky.social courtesy of @indianahumanities.bsky.social—come see us! indianahumanities.org/program/proof/

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Rolling deadline!

That's right—#LiteraryLandscapes is a volunteer operation, editing and writing included. I would love to develop the resources to pay writers, but that hasn't materialized yet.

Do you know either of them well enough to suggest they contribute? If not, send me their contact info and I'll reach out!

Not yet! I had someone who planned to, but I believe the project fell by the wayside.

Literary Landscapes - The New Territory Magazine CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We seek brief essays (400-600 words), accompanied by a photo. See a list of authors we're seeking, or pitch your own.

Check out this list of potential authors and sites (or go off book!) newterritorymag.com/midwest/lite...

Literary Landscapes - The New Territory Magazine A project about the ways that Midwestern literature is relevant today—how we engage with the stories we tell about our region.

I've edited a couple fun essays for the next volume of #LiteraryLandscapes, and I'm looking for more! If you have a favorite Midwestern (ish) author and have visited one of their places, pitch me! newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...

Framed prints of psychedelic artwork of barn and farmhouse

Check out these @wittybanterism.bsky.social prints that my brother commissioned of my parents’ old house and barn

The crab mascot is walking around, claws up, waving at people

It’s open house at the high school tonight, and at the entrance cheerleaders are waving people in while the jazz band plays. Couldn’t be more charming?

Congratulations!!

I would attend that panel!

I'm on the program committee this year, and befitting our partnership with the @miamiuniversity.bsky.social Humanities Center, I'd love to see a broad range of Midwest Studies presentations at this year's conference!

Opening paragraphs of The Green Corn Rebellion, ending with “These little dead spells were long enough with him that you noticed them. Everybody has little flickers of death, but with an old person the blank spaces are long and apparent.”

Book cover of The Green Corn Rebellion and a latte in the foreground, with cars, sunshine, and palm trees behind

Sitting in a coffee shop, preparing to teach The Green Corn Rebellion for the first time, and I had forgotten that it kicks off with such a banger

Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class

This article on Disney and the collapse of the middle class is an absolute banger
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

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The Program Era — Harvard University Press In The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education an...

How about this one? www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Big Fiction | Columbia University Press Shortlisted, 2024 SHARP Book History Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and PublishingIn the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason E... | CUP

This one? cup.columbia.edu/book/big-fic...

Lingering Inland

Preorder here! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...