the cognitive exhaustion of seeing many people returning to "resistance" posting where the only resistance is some clicks and engagement instead of actually pointing people toward ways of helping those who need it or doing actions safely

Hey Friends, this week in Minneapolis there were two shootings at homeless encampments, making it even harder for our neighbors. Sanctuary Supply Depot is raising money to help bring a little more comfort and care. If you have a few dollars to spare (they're only trying for $300!), info below:

Duck Duck Coffee will be doing a directed donation drive today - please bring t shirts, underwear, ibuprofen/acetaminophen, shorts, drinks, and especially SHOES during business hours today!

@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social needs you right now, follow them for lists of what they need & other ways to support

This camp is being violently evicted right now in the wake of a devastating shooting. People are mourning community members and simultaneously having their homes bulldozed. If you have t shirts, drinks, aspirin, new underwear, or cigarettes please bring to 1100 E Lake between 3-7 for distro!

I matched this! And if $25 is rough right now, $7 can buy water that people desperately need on these ninety degree days

I am so thrilled to share that an excerpt of BEINGS, with an incredible introduction by @debbieurbanski.bsky.social is now up at @electricliterature.com, which I've been reading since its earliest days, and which I've always dreamed of placing fiction in <3 electricliterature.com/beings-by-il...

Support a truly magical residency. I am auctioning off a couple copies of The Classroom and one of my little David Lynch cups. I wrote one of the first stories in my new collection at SAFTA. It is a special place for me and so many others. @sundresspub.bsky.social paybee.io/quickpay.htm...

some times I think it'll be a miracle if I stay in academia for another ten years and then some days one of my classes reads Laura van den Berg's "The Pitch" and keeps saying to each other, "did I ever tell you about my other son?" in increasingly dramatic and delighted fashion

My first byline in @reactorsff.bsky.social !! I am EXTREMELY proud of this one -- give it a read :) reactormag.com/bioessential...

for a minute there I was tracking the authors posting about how their publishers hadn't registered copyright, and it was A LOT. I'm really genuinely glad to see that at least one has decided to do right by their authors.

it's fun that you can get angel-numbers brain about everything in publishing. it's terrible that you can get angel-numbers brain about everything in publishing.

it can be a truth that 1.5 billion is significant and 3k doesn't feel like much and and hahaha 3k might be a significant fraction of the advance some of us got for books stolen in that lawsuit

NEW YORK (AP) — Anthropic agrees to pay authors $3,000 per book in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.

my career goal is to write something that pleases me enough that I never write again when it's done

the writing blog posts about why ai is good to getting featured in a major publication about your luxury writers retreat pipeline 😵‍💫

is there any reporting out there about the UChicago pause on doctoral humanities admissions that's also looking at the ways the university administration has interacted with its grad student union

cynically, I'm more surprised that people are surprised by people wanting ai companionship because I feel like so many of us complain about the number of people who only interact with other people for attention rather than connection already

if you're in line to get an email from me, stay in line (it's been a summer of this:😵‍💫)

petition not to call 6-hour meetings “retreats.” after an hour, it’s a hostage situation.

honestly, this has been great: www.nts.live/shows/guests...

i like ms now; it sounds like a tiktok life coach that would teach me how to channel the divine feminine spirit to make more money off stocks

it's taken me four agonizing months but I have finished a draft of a new short story, thanks, it's incredible to be so thoughtful and productive

three hours spent four hundred words, lol, i chose this dumb life

this match is sloppy and a classic anthony taylor let-the-boys fight, but i'm so glad the season has started up

Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps. A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:

I like that the discourse has brought out this particular anxiety for me, but lol for the record: if I ever put in a recipe from a video game in my work, it's not because i'm lazy and won't do research and am a hack at all things despite somehow having a career, it's because i am trying to be funny

Here's another ask: are any of you doing virtual readings or events between September - December? I'm looking for some to encourage my creative writing capstone students to attend this fall. I would love to add this to the list on my Canvas site

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

hey, I'm teaching @tinhouse.bsky.social this fall, apps due 8/31, scholarships available: tinhouse.com/workshop/aut...

sorry to hive mind you all but: is there a recent article/book/art/film that thinks critically about most mainstream feminist thought and its links to capitalism that gave you things to consider that you would like to recommend to me? (I know, a pretty niche ask!! but if so, tell me)

It took a little bit but The Women Could Fly earned out in the UK! (I am trying to take some happiness out of the mess of right now)

broke: publishing articles about why as a tenured professor in english you're using ai based: writing an article that addresses the pedagogical concern of teaching writers how to have a distinctive voice in an era where a lot of writers sound similar already before generative ai came into fashion

Omar Fateh is the reason *every* Minnesotan can go to college now.

this andrea long chu paragraph sent me into outer space: www.vulture.com/article/post...

Minneapolis!

the only way to guarantee book sales is to star on a youtube show where twenty-four writers from across the globe fight to the death on a carnival cruise ship while dressed like their favorite characters from pre 1950s literature

the longest fight running in my household at the moment: would these tulips actually look good in person

one thing I never knew until I published a book is that for months leading up to pub and after, different kinds of "book influencers" will contact you telling you that for a small donation, you or your book can appear on their channel and it will sell so many copies

I truly intended this just as an email and not a public thing but fuck it we ball. The New York Times is not alone in its culpability but it is deeply culpable and its near-monopoly status in our blighted American media ecosystem allows it to do what it does.

hey friends, I'm going to be on today's episode of Stateside via Michigan Public Radio at 3 PM E/2 PM C, talking about all three of my books: www.michiganpublic.org/podcast/stat...

I'll save you a click, this is an article written by someone who got to build a career on the idea that hip hop culture made him beat up a Black girlfriend and then wrote a bunch of scared things about "cancel culture" because if it was actually real, it would mean he would lose everything

Its hard to feel anything but rage and helplessness about how much people are suffering in Gaza, but one thing i did today was donate linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

this describes like one guy I was in an MA program with and then he still got bad teaching evaluations and got really mad that the students didn't get how he was changing education and ended up going to law school to please his dad anyway

when I was in New York a few weeks ago, I made a point of seeing the Sherald show at the Whitney. If you can make it, go! "Trans Forming Liberty" is breathtaking in person. One thing about her work I never expected was how BIG and vivid these portraits actually are.

my younger sibling's doctoral program just got cut and none of these clowns have given guidance about what that means (especially if you're ABD) but lol let's throw dumb money at ai

my dumb ass with a terrible sinus infection and two huge deadlines looming: haha what if I argued about dumb articles on the internet

13 out of 29 of the novelists longlisted for the Center of Fiction Debut Prize identify as men. I think we can stop pretending that increased movements toward equity is some form of cultural collapse

If you haven't pre-order RAVISHING yet, now's the time

the millennial urge to write a pithy post about disillusionment and our misanthropic times