Alan

I don’t even know. The only short enough pieces don’t seem right. Probably good that I have a year to write something new that would be good to read aloud.

Jealous! Hope you all have a great time and thanks for all your help!

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Kind of despondent over not being able to go to awp this year but if anyone wants to invite me to read at an offsite in Chicago next year I am ready.

A palimpsestina. Is that a thing? It could be a thing.

Are we bombing elementary schools because we’re evil or because we’re relying on AI to determine targets, and is there a meaningful difference?

i’m at the anti-ICE protest
i’m at the anti-war with iran protest
i’m at the combination anti-ICE anti-war with iran protest

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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

posted today by @sjcerv.bsky.social

The Trump Administration Can’t Kill Black History Month We don’t need permission from the government to commemorate a complex past.

Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

Columbia economics professor telling students they *must* use AI for reading assignments, for coding assignments, for lecture supplements.

Why not just let AI run a simulation of a college education and call it a day? You can get a little NFT diploma and show it off to your ChatGPT girlfriend too.

I got a voice mail the other day, which was creepy.

Framed photo of basketball legend Allen Iverson, with accompanying text: “The only AI with the answer.”

Made this for my classroom.

Mostly my fault but my senior classes have been hit and miss this year. Good day yesterday, though, with students going all in making props for act V of Macbeth.

When people see crows playing they say "look how intelligent," yet when they see humans playing they say "why aren't they creating more shareholder value"

he's so fancy

This book I was looking forward to turns out to be blah.

Waiting to hear back on a venue with a patio so you very well could.

You should read my story that, like Marty Supreme, involves--but ultimately does not really feature that much--ping-pong

Death to AI.

I will be there too! Yes, I’m a real person, not just your hilarious internet friend.

I hope literary scholars are proud of the fresh, grounded stuff coming out lately. Big Fiction, Teaching Archive, now Manshel on high school English, McGrath forthcoming on literary agents ("Middlemen"). All the concrete aspects of literature-as-human-activity we used to ignore. +

Liz Shulman and William Liang: Why aren’t we talking about the harm AI is doing to students? Despite the evidence showing AI is killing students’ critical thinking skills, schools have signed contracts with Big Tech companies.

More of this genre, please: high school teacher and student co-write an op-ed.

"Big Tech may have the money that schools need, but schools shouldn’t sell their souls for the funding they deserve. Besides, public schools remain massively underfunded despite their contracts with tech companies."

Small stack of tiny homemade books

Not too bad

High School English and the Making of American Readers Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars

As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵

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Lot more work up front but I can put the instructions in a shoebox when the project is done instead of losing them in the Google Drive void.

Gonna sneak in a quick tiny memoir assignment and instead of slides I’m making sidebound books with instructions, following steps in Alisa Golden’s book, Making Handmade Books: 100+ Bindings, Structures & Forms because I’m going to ask students to make diy commonplace books over The Book Thief.

Dan Sinykin - Close Reading Podcast Episode · Required Reading from Liberties · 02/09/2026 · 36m

Just delighted to talk with @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social (whose own recent book on Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain is excellent) about close reading for the Required Reading podcast. He's a fantastic interviewer and conversationalist. Listen! Share! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

My book, First Aid for Choking Victims, on a bookstore shelf next to Herta Müller’s The Land of Green Plumbs. Joho Moyes and Otessa Moshfegh are hanging around too.

Always fun to see your book on a bookstore shelf, and the neighbors it finds. Just me and Herta hanging out.

@malarkeybooks.bsky.social

So You've Got a Book Coming Out on an Indie Press — Malarkey LJ Pemberton And you’re excited, and can’t believe it, but also now you need people to actually buy and read your book!  If you’re lucky, you’ve got five to ten people who are already very excit...

I’d just like to give a shoutout to this incredible guide for writers with an upcoming book from @ljabouttown.bsky.social

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