There will never be another Steve Albini

D4mn. Sh1t. F7ck. thebaffler.com/salvos/the-pro…

Just had a lengthy & passionate & rewarding conversation with a colleague about the post-positive however

#EnglishTeacherThings 🤠

As a Deep Vellum cheerleader & signalbooster from day 1, I’m delighted (& not at all surprised) to see Will Evans & #literaryDallas getting this well-deserved love

Read the gift link, & then click on their profile link to go buy some dang books! 🤠📚🫶🏽

nytimes.com/2024/04/25/boo…

As a Deep Vellum cheerleader & signalbooster from day 1, I’m delighted (& not at all surprised) to see Will Evans & #literaryDallas getting this well-deserved love

Read the gift link, & then click on their profile link to go buy some dang books! 🤠📚🫶🏽

nytimes.com/2024/04/25/boo…

Thanks to a recent Ezra Klein ep, I bought the beautiful The Work of Art: How Something Comes From Nothing by Adam Moss. In it, Moss “ breaks down the work—the tortuous paths & artistic decisions—that led to great art” 🤔🤯🫶🏽

Links to book & Ezra Klein interview in alt text!

NEW POEM #125: 'Someday Whisper' by Mitchell Nobis (Mitchell Nobis)

'My prayers slide through soil, fill on minerals & microbes, / alive. Some turn mulch but some of my prayers / huddle into masses, turn their // tomb into a chrysalis'

stonecirclereview.com/to-someday-whi…

one of my favorite professors (and fellow FSJP-OSU member), Dr. Michiko Hikida, just sent this to her big boss — Ohio State President, Ted Carter.

may her words, conviction, and truth be an example for tenured faculty everywhere.

#OhioState

Dafuq

remember when the white supremacists had a whole march on a college campus with literal torches and the school was like well what can ya do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’ll admit I put Theophanies in my cart because of the front cover

& then I saw that Ocean Vuong blurbed it

& then I dug into Ali’s Sarai poems & ghazals, & saw that Ali is gracing us with deeply spiritual personal artful work

So so good 🥹🤯👊🏽

alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/theo…

Until the mosquitos come out in full force, I'm walking & audiobooking as much as possible, so this essay hit me at just the right time 🚶🏽

'The soul travels at the speed of walking.' noemamag.com/traveling-at-t… via Noema Magazine

NCTE member leader and Secondary Section Committee member Joel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓 recently spoke with Education Week about the impact of audiobooks on his students. Read more in this article:
edweek.org/teaching-learn…

“It isn’t going to outcompete you at whatever you’re best at”

This conversation—not too alarmist, not too enamored—has me reconciling myself to a future w AI as *a* tool in my workflow rather than what it is now … a last resort, a what-if goofy option overcast.fm/+oiPWl-grA

It was NOT a bad reading month for me : ) middleagedmiddlechild.com/2024/03/19/i-r…

Excited to begin my weekend with Armen Davoudian’s debut poetry collection The Palace of Forty Pillars from Tin House! 😍👊🏽

tinhouse.com/book/palace-of…

A reminder:

It’s “be kind to all the high school seniors in your life” season

🤠🫶🏽

Tonight 8:30EST! #G2Great with Nawal Qarooni | NQC Literacy | @nqarooni on IG! 🫶🏽🤔🎉

Woke up to discover that my past-self bought a present for my future-self

It’s a new dang book by Hanif Adburraqib! 😱🏀🎧 audible.com/pd/B0CB9CM6T8?…

If writing is thinking (as I believe it to be) the last thing you want to outsource to AI is the first draft because that's where the initial gathering of thoughts happens. It's why first drafts are hard. That difficulty signals their importance.