Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books

Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

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check this out (h/t @john.tibbettsfamily.com) ktla.com/entertainmen...

He recorded 10,000 concerts on tape, now they’re streaming for free

The music collection of a 59-year-old Chicago man who attended more than 10,000 concerts and recorded them on cassette tapes is slowly being digitized and released online for free. Like many GenX k…

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El Norte Recuerda@elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

Ronan Farrow@ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Join us THIS SUNDAY for our next Craft Lab with @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social! events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brook...

Brooklyn Poets@brooklynpoets.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us online on Sunday, March 29 for our next Craft Lab: “Poetic Cartographies” with Vanessa Angélica Villarreal @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social. In this craft lab, we’ll investigate the link between language and the land. Sliding scale options between $25-$150!  brooklynpoets.org/events/all/p...

Not only are the murderers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti still walking free, but they're still working and getting paid by DHS while the Trump administration covers up their crimes. Renee Good's killer also reportedly illegally received $750k from GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/f/support-ic...

Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · 4mo ago

The state of Minnesota has sued the Trump administration, accusing its top law enforcement agencies of withholding evidence from the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

The Rumpus - El Alboroto

El Alboroto es una nueva sección en español que forma parte de The Rumpus. La revista busca publicar voces innovadoras y textos que quizás no encajan en publicaciones más tradicionales. Nos interesa e...

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Ryan Coogler accepts his first-ever Oscar to a standing ovation “To my parents who are here, thank you for making me believe in myself… Memories are all we have. I hope we give you some great ones.”

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

there is a macroeconomic reason novels are not written in the third person anymore and it is not good www.versobooks.com/products/303...

Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism

Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for ...

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Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

you *will* read third person and you will like it.

Hey friends, if you have taught MAGICAL/REALISM in your classes, or if as a student, it has been assigned to you, could you let me know your university or school? It would be hugely, tremendously helpful. Thank you so much!

Hey LA! I will be at Skylight Books tomorrow talking with Alvaro Enrique, author of Your Dreamed of Empires, to introduce his new novel, NOW I SURRENDER! This is an incredible expansive book and I can't wait to chat with him about it. Come on out! 3/6, 7pm! www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylig...

Join us online on Sunday, March 29 for our next Craft Lab: “Poetic Cartographies” with Vanessa Angélica Villarreal @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social. In this craft lab, we’ll investigate the link between language and the land. Sliding scale options between $25-$150!  brooklynpoets.org/events/all/p...

Craft Lab: Poetic Cartographies w/ Vanessa Angélica Villarreal — Brooklyn Poets

March 29, 5-8pm (ET) with Vanessa Angélica Villarreal  / online

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Teaching the basic concept of the Global South just got even more danceable

Arturo Chang@arturochang.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I wrote a short article for @myhnn.bsky.social analyzing the hemispheric histories behind Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime shown. I show that hemispheric discourses have long been used to combat the politics of empire. Link below! www.hnn.us/article/the-...

"Losing sight of the importance of hemispheric discourses in the break from empire, however, risks overstating the status of the nation-state system as a necessary outcome of the American revolutionary period."

Arturo Chang@arturochang.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I wrote a short article for @myhnn.bsky.social analyzing the hemispheric histories behind Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime shown. I show that hemispheric discourses have long been used to combat the politics of empire. Link below! www.hnn.us/article/the-...

My Poets & Writers class sold out! BUT, there is a waiting list, so maybe if enough people request a spot they'll open it up! I'll be talking about "mnemonic reading," and how pop culture can help us fill gaps in personal and public memory. Excited to teach it! www.pw.org/content/work...

Farm workers. The fields on the field. The legacies of slavery and colonialism—the sugar cane plantation, labor power, power crisis—despite it all, the future reaches through the tv to the past to make our postcolonial present. The people of the Americas live on: seguimos aquí.

Not sure what you mean by theories, but there is very little knowledge production on Latine racial identity. Latines are taught to assimilate as part of an ongoing colonial project to empty the land of indigenous people, artificially inflate white majorities, and fight communism in Latin America

Should I submit my 20th faculty application of this academic year or make another Jon Snow edit for Tiktok 😭 it's been an absolutely brutal couple of years man, holy shit

I keep thinking about these poor kids seeing their mom arrested for doing her job.

I just finished teaching a j-term course on neofascism at middlebury, and I framed the class around the idea that the main distinction between pre- and post-war fascism is the dominance of the cult of death. fascism pre-war seeks the state; post-war seeks immolation of self, state, volk, and nation.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 6mo ago

disturbingly plausible

I want to start a press that sells $5 mass market paperbacks, with introductions by contemporary figures. Not a boutique press because reading is not a luxury. We’ll need to be subsidized to keep the price point, but we can’t let mass market pbs die to $50 hardbacks and Anna’s Archive 💔

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official

The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.

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The mass market paperback is what most people think of when they hear the word "paperback." It's the printed edition meant for the regular person. It's smaller and cheaper than the hardback & trade paperback, and it's going away.

El Norte Recuerda@elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 6mo ago

All the blockbuster IP franchises you love today only exist because of mass market paperbacks. How can we stop this? goodereader.com/blog/digital...

All the blockbuster IP franchises you love today only exist because of mass market paperbacks. How can we stop this? goodereader.com/blog/digital...

Mass Market Paperbacks are discontinued

Publishers Weekly last month reported that ReaderLink, the largest full-service distributor of

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There are few poets I trust more who can capture the constant present of the shattered colonial real, the specter of the past, the looping nature of un-time, unreality, that is forced into a procession line of exit and erasure, than Chaun Webster. lithub.com/letter-from-...

Letter From Minnesota: This Occupation is Strange But Familiar

This is the second dispatch in our ongoing series of Letters From Minnesota in which we invite writers to share their experiences, as both witness and warning, of American authoritarianism. _______…

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While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

Most people do not grasp how warped our reality is that ICE even exists. Immigration and Naturalization Service, formerly INS, was a CIVIC agency—part of the Department of Labor. Racism and xenophobia alone militarized it under George W Bush following 9/11. This cannot be reformed. ABOLISH ICE NOW

MinnMax@minnmax.com · 6mo ago

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

I grew up with Alex Pretti

The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

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Reading Frantz Fanon with Geo Maher: "A hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction," Wednesday evenings Feb 4-April 29, 5:30-7PM ET. Online via YouTube. www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma... #books #liberation