Grateful to TV Mike and the Orbit Room for hosting the tribute show for Toby earlier this year wfhb.org/the-end-of-a...

Today would have been my brother Toby's birthday, so I wanted to put another record out there. This time it's Yesterday's Mask, originally from 2020. Happy birthday, Toby. We love you. tobyoler.bandcamp.com/album/yester...

Yesterday's Mask, by Toby Oler

4 track album

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Check out this nice article featuring Lingering Inland contributor @kellathornton.bsky.social! caps.washu.edu/caps-instruc...

CAPS Instructional Designer Contributes to Midwest Book Award Winner - Continuing & Professional Studies

WashU Continuing & Professional Studies (CAPS) Instructional Specialist Kella Thornton is among the contributors being recognized after Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest won top honors ...

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Asian Disco: Disco Divas, Funky Queens And Psych Ladies From Asia From The 70s To The Early 90s—a real winner from Toby’s collection youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Asian Disco (Disco Divas, Funky Queens And Psych Ladies From Asia From The 70s To The Early 90s) - YouTube

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Thrilled & honored to have one of my essays in a 2026 Midwest Book Awards-winning anthology (Humanities' category, bb!), edited by @andyoler.bsky.social, published by the @uofillinois.bsky.social press & inspired by the "Literary Landscapes" series in The New Territory Magazine 🎉🪩🌌 Woohoo!

Andy Oler@andyoler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We did it! LINGERING INLAND won a Midwest Book Award! Thanks to contributors Olga Herrera and Liz Wilkinson for accepting on behalf of all our contributors!

We did it! LINGERING INLAND won a Midwest Book Award! Thanks to contributors Olga Herrera and Liz Wilkinson for accepting on behalf of all our contributors!

I'm pretty pumped to announce that LINGERING INLAND has been named a finalist for the Midwest Book Awards in the Humanities category! Thanks again to all 73 contributors as well as The New Territory and @illinoispress.bsky.social for helping make this possible! www.mipa.org/midwest-book...

Tonight’s the night—join me at The Book Cellar in a couple hours! www.bookcellarinc.com/andy-oler-li...

If you’re in the Chicago area, join me next week at The Book Cellar! We’ll have readings from two contributors to LINGERING INLAND: A LITERARY TOUR OF THE MIDWEST, then a conversation and Q&A with a third! #LiteraryLandscapes @illinoispress.bsky.social www.bookcellarinc.com/andy-oler-li...

We are slowly making more of Toby’s music available again on Bandcamp. For Bandcamp Friday, we re-released two albums he made with Michael James Tapscott of Odawas: Tapscott Sings Toby and Toby and Tapscott Sing. tobyoler.bandcamp.com/album/tapsco...

Tapscott Sings Toby, by Toby Oler

11 track album

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If you’ll be in the vicinity of Oxford, OH, on Friday, come check out this event featuring several contributors reading from LINGERING INLAND! humanitiescenter.miamioh.edu/event/humani...

Otto and the Moaners on a Sunday afternoon

Excited for the Unbound Book Festival in a couple weeks, where I’ll get to share a stage with the authors of these fine books: Leslie VonHolten, George Frazier, and Kieran Walquist!

Check out this little teaser for Lingering Inland posted at Middle West US (thanks for the opportunity, @friefeld.bsky.social!) middlewest.us/lingering-ov...

Lingering over Midwestern Stories, in Midwestern Places, by Midwestern People - Middle West US

March 25, 2026 By Andy Oler My introduction to the field of Midwestern literature centered on the fiction and poetry published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The authors typical...

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A call for contributors to #LiteraryLandscapes: Have you visited a literary place in the Midwest? (all terms broadly construed) Write about it! Send me a pitch. See here for details and a(n incomplete) list of possible subjects: newterritorymag.com/midwest/lite...

Literary Landscapes - The New Territory Magazine

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We seek brief essays (400-600 words), accompanied by a photo. See a list of authors we're seeking, or pitch your own.

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Toby left a massive record collection, and while I couldn’t keep everything, I saved two big bins, and I’m going through one-by-one. Today we’ve got a throwback that probably introduced a lot of teenage boys to jazz and world rhythms. Thanks, Tobe.

Periodical call for #LiteraryLandscapes: do you have a favorite Midwestern author? a literary place in the Midwest that you've visited or live nearby? Write about it! Send me a pitch, details and a list of possible subjects: newterritorymag.com/midwest/lite...

Literary Landscapes - The New Territory Magazine

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We seek brief essays (400-600 words), accompanied by a photo. See a list of authors we're seeking, or pitch your own.

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Toby's Bandcamp page is back up and running. All proceeds directly to Backline, a nonprofit providing mental health and wellness resources to people in the music industry. Currently the page includes four instrumental albums, and we will release more of his records over time. tobyoler.bandcamp.com

Toby Oler

Toby Oler was a songwriter, banjo player, and multiinstrumental artist. He died in Nov. 2025. His brother Andy now manages this page. All proceeds to Backline, a nonprofit providing mental health and wellness resources to people in the music industry. In Toby's words, "All the best to you. Stay observant."

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Toby’s buddy Joel did this extended live version of Toby’s song “Blue Dream” from Thank You Bird Snider. Proceeds to Cardinal Greenway ragenap.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

The newest volume of #LiteraryLandscapes is here! It's a timely issue, with an essay on Renee Nicole Good and two from the Twin Cities. 1/2

Aunt Lisa donated a copy of Lingering Inland to my high school library!

What a wonderful way to feature the contributors to LINGERING INLAND!

Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch@elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 7mo ago

Themes of place & legacy, and of celebration & erasure, resonate throughout “Lingering Inland,” a new anthology of 70+ essays exploring how Midwestern locales have inspired American letters. Editor @andyoler.bsky.social & forward by @joseolivarez.bsky.social. More in my Newcity feature linked below!

I'm excited to see so many Lingering Inland contributors highlighted in NewCityLit!

Creative Writing at NEIU@neiu-cw.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Anyone have a good story to tell about a place related to Midwestern literature? I am working on the next volume of #LiteraryLandscapes and would love to see your pitch! Here's a list of potential sites: newterritorymag.com/midwest/lite...

Literary Landscapes - The New Territory Magazine

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We seek brief essays (400-600 words), accompanied by a photo. See a list of authors we're seeking, or pitch your own.

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I was excited to talk to Tom Barnas of Stories from The 78 about Lingering Inland! storiesfromthe78.com/stories/ling...

Stories from the 78 | Lingering Inland: How Midwest Stories, Memory, and Place Shape the American Soul

Andy Oler’s Literary Landscapes Project Explores Midwestern Identity Through 73 Voices, From Toni Morrison to the Beauty of Everyday Towns

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Several of Toby’s friends are gathering this weekend to play his music. Seems perfectly fitting, and I’m grateful both that they’re doing it and that I can be there

Happy Pub Date to LINGERING INLAND: A Literary Tour of the Midwest edited by @andyoler.bsky.social, with a foreword by @joseolivarez.bsky.social! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... #LiteraryStudies #Midwest

Today’s the day! Find your copy wherever books are sold!* * preferably an independent bookstore somewhere between Cleveland and western Nebraska www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Lingering Inland

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Here we go, the inaugural issue of Rust Belt Studies: A Journal of Public and Emplaced Humanities! I'm happy to see the work that Katie and Valentino are doing—please read, submit, and support! www.rustbeltstudies.org

We've got a brand-new volume of #LiteraryLandscapes for you to peruse, this time on Mark Twain! Even before you click the link below, check out these portraits—they make me wonder if *anyone* at the turn of the 19-20c was photographed more.