8 years ago I brought @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social back to life. We've done great things but I'm leaving as exec editor and nonfic editor. Why don't you apply? anotherchicagomagazine.submittable.com/submit/33755... and anotherchicagomagazine.submittable.com/submit/33754...

Mamdani reiterates his support for trans folks, his determination to fight "the scourge of antisemitism," and his pledge to fight Islamophobia--and throws a punch at the billionaire-funded campaign of lies against him. "In a time of political darkness, New York will be the light." This is a SPEECH.

Congratulations to janetburroway.bsky.social today's well-deserved review by Pat Reardon at @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. The review was published on Simone In Pieces' publication day! Https://thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2025/11/04/simone-in-pieces-by-janet-burroway

"Submittable is currently experiencing an intermittent issue which is impacting performance. We've identified the issue and anticipate being back to normal very soon. Thank you for your patience—we apologize for the inconvenience." What could be more obfuscatory?

Bravo, Glendale. Bravo. More, please. And it's time for Democrats to loudly say, "Abolish ICE." Someone please stand up and have a spine.

Veterans are mobilizing - against the police state. "Demonstrators, including military veterans, gathered outside Camp Pendleton on Sunday to protest the potential deployment of active-duty military personnel to Los Angeles following recent immigration raids..." www.cbs8.com/article/news...

The MLA, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the American Historical Association (AHA) have filed a lawsuit in federal district court today, seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Who knows if it'll work?

Sad news: Dear Links Hall Community, Far and Wide, Past and Present, Rooted and Growing, There is no easy way to say this. With heavy hearts, we share with you that our board of directors has voted to sunset the organization at the end of this current fiscal year, June 30, 2025.

Is Lemonade legit? I received a letter from Lemonade Secure Processing Center saying that my driver's license number was in a data breach and I can enroll in protection services...to which I have to give my social security number.

Historic day. No foolin,' Made my first QR code (for free). Not bad for an Eisenhower baby.

This Friday is the Feb 28 Economic Blackout, an economic boycott to protest what's happening in our country. Here's ta story from @fastcompany #Feb28 #economic #blackout www.fastcompany.com/91282923/eco...

The canary is on life support.

We need an ACT-UP for breast cancer, writes Kaya Oakes: "I write about cancer because I walked the streets with friends who had AIDS and they shouted until there were treatments, but because we have successfully gendered and pink-ified..." kayaoakes.substack.com/p/a-cancer-m...

Google Maps says, How high? to Trump. www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...

They don't waste time.

The problem with lauding Houston as a great place because it welcomes immigrants is half the story. Yes, it's great that it's welcoming, but the city was built on a swamp. There were floods early on & they continue. The swamp will reclaim the land, as fire has in LA.

ICYMI--Highlights from last month's annual #breastcancer symposium in San Antonio: www.breastcancer.org/news/sabcs-h...

There's always a bright side.

This punctures the pretensions of the monumental movie THE BRUTALIST, about Laslo Toth--how many remember Don Novello's deliberately ridiculous fake letters to celebrities, which he wrote under the name Lazlo Toth? @thebrutalist #hungarians #satire www.goodreads.com/book/show/57...

Microplastics and sinusitis????https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/18/nx-s1-5227172/microplastics-plastic-nanoparticles-health-pfas

Thanks, Chicago Reader and Emily McClanathan for calling THE ADVENTURES OF CANCER BITCH required nonfiction reading: issuu.com/chicago_read...

Putting a #panelproposal together for GSA having to do with #WWII #EuropeanJews #internees #UK #refugeecamps #Switzerland --anybody doing with in these areas?

So happy I just finished a performance poem for an online conference Dec. 17. It's about Rose Kushner, possibliy the first breast-cancer activist. #jewishstudies #feminism #breastcancer #deadline

Cancel the birthday cake Friday: www.thebrighterside.news/post/scienti...

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

White supremacists in Manhattan stabbed two migrant teens after asking if the teens spoke English. Something tells me we’re not gonna see a nationwide manhunt for whoever did this. abc7ny.com/post/migrant...

Assad's in Moscow. What a surprise.

Them's fightin' words. www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

great idea

Fruit has no place inside a bagel.

I'm writing #fiction about a stateless woman who marries an American in 1933 in Italy. Suggestions for sources for info on what her nationality would/could become? #Jewishhistory #passports #Holocaust #forgeddocuments

It was obvious to me as a total outsider that it was real, not mass hysteria. Not so obvious to the media.

Laws that kill #women

#literarywriters all genres: catamaranliteraryreader.submittable.com/submit... Got writing on fashion? Special issue. #poetry #cnf #fic #art

I'm joining the exodus from X. Haven't been here for a while. How are things here? #cnf #litmags #universitypress ?

Who's up for an #awp25 proposal for a reading by Jewish and Muslim women? In person or online.

We talked about telling and not telling people about our cancers-- lithub.com/s-l-wisenber...

BOOKS w/ A 2nd LIFE. I want to interview writers who've published a book, then had it reissued by another press after a number of yrs. How did you market it? Did you consider the book differently? Did you revise it? Was it received differently? Also a possible AWP panel proposal.

Chicagoans: 4/17 (Wed.) Free reading, Allium lit mag. Columbia College, 5:30pm, 754 S. Wabash (Student Center), fifth floor. With Chris Solís Green, Natalie Greene, Kelley Engelbrecht, Sarah Terez Rosenblum and Yasmine Essence Soria & me. allium.colum.edu

This Saturday in Rogers Park (Chicago)--a few tickets left.

Nonfiction writers! Top essay wins a residency + publication!

The Wandering Womb was nominated for a Chi Review of Books Award or CHIRBy in nonfiction. Here are interviews with some of the nominated writers: chireviewofbooks.com/2023/11/29/5...

Did you order a Palestine-Israel empathy kit? opensiddur.org/prayers/tora...

Thanks, @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social and @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social for sponsoring the reading last night. It was great to hear everyone.

Can't wait to read these stories again. They accrue meaning bit by bit and are quirky in the best way. By Garnett Kilberg Cohen. #fiction #shortstories #UniversityofWisconsinPress Pub date tomorrow! garnettcohenauthor.com #ChicagoReviewofBooks anticipated book of 2023!

Cuz there just isn't enough literature about asthma. Breathing Through It: Essays from the (Asthmatic) Body - S.L.  Wisenberg. reading/discussion. THURSDAY, Oct. 26, Chicago - noon - 12:45 Central--Northwestern Memorial Hospital/ also on Zoom. www.bioethics.northwestern.edu/about/events...

People often don't think of Texas as Southern. But the state was part of the Confederacy. (Moses Austin encouraged Virginia cotton planters to come, too.) Thus, statues. Hey, hey, tow them away! As Houston is doing. And Goodbye, Columbus, too. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/hou...

Yay, Adrienne! Yay, AFSCME Council 31! Crain's 40 under 40. Well-deserved!

This is good. hyperallergic.com/849889/new-y...

Gettysburg College is shuttering the #gettysburgreview. Info on how you can contact the College admin: www.gettysburgreview.com #litmags