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Executive Director of Literary Cleveland
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Bookshop.org
12 days ago
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
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Andrew Quemere
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Look at this shit.
#AbolishICE
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District
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peeping this late-inning Guardians run production
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Laura Bassett
about 2 months ago
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312042943.html
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Derek Pollard, PhD
2 months ago
When poets debate whether metaphor itself perpetuates harm, every image becomes an ethical choice.
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's DISPATCHES FROM THE LAND OF ERASURE captures these heated conversations, changing how we approach poems that engage cultural difference.
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The New Yorker
3 months ago
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,”
johncassidysays.bsky.social
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The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History
Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/the-ai-profits-drought-and-the-lessons-of-history?utm_source=threads&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tny&utm_social-type=owned
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District
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we interrupt your timeline to share news that our first ever comic book goes to press on Monday. đź‘€ Lake Erie League ISSUE #1 debut drops in print and online at
#CleanWaterFest
. September 20, 2025.
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Ohio Capital Journal
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Trump illegally froze 1,800 NIH medical research grants, Congress’ watchdog says
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Trump illegally froze 1,800 NIH medical research grants, Congress’ watchdog says • Ohio Capital Journal
President Donald Trump’s freeze on $8 billion of congressionally appropriated funding to the National Institutes of Health was illegal, the Government Accountability Office reported Tuesday.
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/06/repub/trump-illegally-froze-1800-nih-medical-research-grants-congress-watchdog-says/
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Come to Cleveland
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Spread the word
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Jonathan Cohn
4 months ago
Anyone who gives credence to the GOP's debt/deficit rhetoric talk after they voted to explode the deficit to give tax cuts to the rich is a villain or a fool. This is just a war on humanitarian aid and public broadcasting.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Senate Republicans advance Trump bill to cancel $9bn in approved spending
President is looking to clawback money from public media and foreign aid programs to seemingly control US debt
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/senate-republicans-trump-cancel-spending
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Late to the game but: Toni Morrison George Saunders Zadie Smith Italo Calvino Maggie Nelson Chris Bachelder Ali Smith Donald Barthelme WG Sebald Hanif Abdurraqib
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Tom Gauld
4 months ago
My cartoon for this weekend’s
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books.
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Lincoln Michel
4 months ago
David Brooks's latest article contains basic errors that are easily debunked with a 10-second Google (as I did below). I can understand a Substack article misstating e.g. a famous novel's publication year (Ragtime was 75 not 74) but the NYT can't even check?
countercraft.substack.com/p/the-foreve...
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Ohio Capital Journal
4 months ago
Ohio's food banks are strained as it is. Huge cuts to the safety net signed into law in recent days could overwhelm them, the director of a Columbus food bank said last week
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/07/a...
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At an Ohio food bank, fears that Republican cuts will overwhelm an overstretched program • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio's food banks are strained as it is. Huge cuts to the safety net signed into law in recent days could overwhelm them, the director of a Columbus food bank said last week.
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/07/at-an-ohio-food-bank-fears-that-republican-cuts-will-overwhelm-an-overstretched-program/
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Bobby Kogan
4 months ago
Hard to fathom what ICE under Donald Trump with three times the funding can do.
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Amy Hanauer
4 months ago
Trump and the Republican Congress literally just took health care and food from struggling families to give a TRILLION dollars to the top 1% over the next decade. They own that now.
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Top 1% to Receive $1 Trillion Tax Cut from Trump Megabill Over the Next Decade
The Trump megabill will give the top 1 percent tax cuts totaling $1.02 trillion over the next decade. For comparison, the bill’s cuts to the Medicaid health care program will total $930 billion over t...
https://itep.org/top-1-to-receive-1-trillion-tax-cut-from-trump-megabill-over-next-decade/
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The New Yorker
5 months ago
“They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?” Fiction by Donald Barthelme, from 1974.
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“The School,” by Donald Barthelme
Fiction, from 1974: “They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/06/17/the-school?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Authors Against Book Bans
6 months ago
Tuesday evening reminder: Write the book. Make the zine. Pack the shelves. Fill the world with so many stories they'll never be able to silence us all.
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Adam Morgan
6 months ago
Just 15 years ago Chicago newspapers had robust books coverage written by full-time, salaried staff. Now they have GPT hallucinations edited by no one.
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Ali Black Denne Michele Norris
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Hilary Plum Wednesday 7PM Loganberry Books
@literarycleveland.bsky.social
Could not be more excited about this lineup. Get tickets now.
www.litcleveland.org/events-progr...
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Hector Diaz
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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Ben Mauk
6 months ago
Every few weeks I have to show another student, colleague, or university admin that LLMs are hallucination machines with no ability to determine truth value or accuracy -- and they're getting worse. Most people (including academics!) simply do not know this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
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A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/technology/ai-hallucinations-chatgpt-google.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E08.ZyT8.23qukJ5SG-Jc&smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawKFu_pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrlSvsHMg9JIG3s7WjpbIA3MoXqvS3KjVuof8Zjj7GiEn_15RzpKDEcGk1-8_aem_phsI2jnPEyALwCl2A6MUOA
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Robert Mahon
6 months ago
NIH, NSF, NASA, NEA, NEH If it funds thought it’s under attack
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Transit Books
6 months ago
Along with many other nonprofit arts organizations, we learned last night that our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts—$40,000 toward the publication of our books in 2025—has been terminated. While this news was not unexpected, its message was chilling.
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Ben Mauk
7 months ago
Last week I was invited to participate in an informal debate on "the political crisis in higher education" with my colleague Michael Clune. Here's what I said.
benmauk.substack.com/p/the-crisis...
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The Crisis in Higher Education: A Debate with Michael Clune
When the vice president says "the universities are the enemy," let’s believe him.
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Anne Trubek
7 months ago
Media copies of this Dawn Powell novel, set in Ohio, should any Powell-loving critics want to cover. The latest in
@beltpublishing.bsky.social
's Revivals series. Shoot an email to
[email protected]
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She Walks in Beauty
By Dawn PowellJune 17, 2025 A coming-of-age story of two sisters living in their grandmother’s boarding house in a small Ohio town just before the first world war and the characters who filter in an o...
https://beltpublishing.com/products/she-walks-in-beauty
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ProPublica
7 months ago
NEW: A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk and Trump could get a piece of the federal expense card system — and its hundreds of millions in fees. “This goes against all the normal contracting safeguards,” one expert said. By
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Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program
A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk and Trump could get a piece of the federal expense card system — and its hundreds of millions in fees. “This goes against all the norma...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-peter-thiel-ramp-gsa-smartpay-expense-payment-system?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=1
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American Library Association
7 months ago
ALA is deeply concerned by reports that IMLS is sending notices to libraries claiming to cancel grants that are required by law. This harmful action will disrupt libraries' ability to serve their communities. Tell Congress to protect library funding:
bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
#ForOurLibraries
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John Burroughs
7 months ago
The Cuyahoga County Public Library's annual Read + Write: 30 Days of Poetry, curated by Diane Kendig for National Poetry Month, begins today! Sign up here to receive a daily poem via email.
cuyahogalibrary.org/services/mak...
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Services - Cuyahoga County Public Library
https://cuyahogalibrary.org/services/makerspaces/the-william-n-skirball-writers-center#poetry
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Matt Bell
8 months ago
“These machines don’t listen to understand; they listen to do an operation, to perform a task, to produce an outcome. What does it mean to live in a world where speech becomes prompt, where we engage in speech that mimics kinship but fails the meaning test?”
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Favorite part of AWP was connecting with a stranger about the cult classic PEOPLE OF PAPER (which is now 20 years old).
www.publishersweekly.com/9781932416213
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The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
Plascencia's mannered but moving debut begins with an allegory for art and the loss that drives it: a butcher guts a boy'...
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781932416213
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Literary Cleveland
8 months ago
TONIGHT! Don't miss our Plum City Reading in Cleveland featuring Ruth Awad (Outside of Joy), Ananda Lima (Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil), & Ben Mauk (The Fugitive World). WED, MAR 19, 7 PM @ Loganberry Books!
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Rust Belt Lab
8 months ago
Next month: Books at the Market at Cleveland's historic, West Side Market w/
@andrewaydin.bsky.social
. Will we see you? Join
@literarycleveland.bsky.social
, Cleveland Public Library, Comics at the Corner, more!
#comics
#booksky
#CLE
#RustBelt
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On the Media
8 months ago
Props to
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for holding DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar's feet to the fire this morning. Powerful interviewing:
www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
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DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar discusses arrest of protest leader, deportations
NPR speaks with Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar about the arrest of a student protest leader and the Trump administration's ramped-up deportations of immigrants.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5326015/dhs-deputy-secretary-troy-edgar-discusses-arrest-of-protest-leader-deportations
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New Katie Kitamura is a stunner. I'm speechless.
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Christopher McKnight Nichols
8 months ago
Poignant. Important. This is what is happening around us now, particularly with universities and organizations obeying FAR in advance. "I am losing my job at Ohio State. Bridges we fought for will crumble if DEI falls."
www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...
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I am losing my job at Ohio State. Bridges we fought for will crumble if DEI falls. | Opinion
If we allow DEI to crumble, everything it has built will collapse into a heap of rubble, forgotten and buried.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2025/03/05/ohio-state-dei-diversity-odi-office-of-diversity-and-inclusion/81390666007/
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
8 months ago
Please share this call widely. We want everyone to participate in this shared space, for our GRIEF issue, Spring 2025. Some letters will appear in the magazine; many more online.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)
9 months ago
Bringing Black Studies to Black People On weekends, Stanford University professor Adam Banks flies from the California campus to Cleveland, on a mission to teach a college-level African American studies class to the Black community — for free.
wordinblack.com/2025/02/brin...
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Bringing Black Studies to Black People
Dr. Adam Banks flies from the Bay Area to Cleveland most weekends to teach. Black studies in a neighborhood cafe.
https://wordinblack.com/2025/02/bringing-black-studies-to-black-people/
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Literary Cleveland
9 months ago
🎉The Cleveland Poetry Festival is BACK April 25-27. Three days of readings, workshops, panel discussions, open mics, plus a new POETRY CRAWL on indie bookstore day. Space is limited so get your tickets early:
www.litcleveland.org/events-progr...
#ClePoetryFest
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Literary Cleveland
9 months ago
Last night was magic~BIG LOVE to everyone who came out for Plum City! 💜✨ Next reading WED, MAR 19, 7 PM @ Loganberry Books! Featuring Ruth Awad (Outside of Joy), Ananda Lima (Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil), & Ben Mauk (The Fugitive World). 🎟 Get Tix Below!
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Dan Chaon
9 months ago
For my late night pals, here is the cover reveal for my new book~~~~~
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Lincoln Michel
9 months ago
This was always the plan for AI. Plausible deniability for plutocrat plunder.
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DOGE will use AI to assess the responses from federal workers who were told to justify their jobs via email
The revelation comes as federal workers face a midnight deadline to respond.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-agencies-push-back-elon-musks-email-ultimatum-rcna193439
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Rust Belt Lab
9 months ago
Last month
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presented their work "Rhetorics of the Rust Belt" at the meetings of the MLA. With funding from the Teagle foundation, we have revamped our composition courses to focus on writing about place.
#academicsky
#booksky
#RustBelt
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Literary Cleveland
9 months ago
Reminder! Ohioana Library has a $1,000 award for Ohio writers under the age of 30. Deadline to apply is this Saturday, February 15. Go get it!
www.ohioana.org/programs/ohi...
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