Someone in my writing group who hasn't said anything for months submitted 100 new pages over the weekend and said he has started “working with a collaborator” and after exactly two comments on his pages he let it slip it's ChatGPT. This is gonna be a bloodbath.

Flattering company. 🙏🏻🍎

Not me converting 5000 words of a close third perspective into a first person perspective just to see how it sounds COULD NEVER BE ME. ☠️☠️☠️

"I don't need a response to this till August 10" 😍😍😍

"Freedom knows a thin or thick wallet ain’t nothing to a forest of hearts." Professor, author, and National Book Award winner @imaniperry.bsky.social answers the question, What is Freedom. ➡️ buff.ly/D7cRBCt

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

The author of “Cool Machine” has become one of our most important writers without ever seeming to stretch for importance. www.newyorker.com/podcast/crit...

The Irony and the Ecstasy of Colson Whitehead

The author of “Cool Machine” has become one of our most important writers without ever seeming to stretch for importance.

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“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.

West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.

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anti GPS screed sure why not substack.com/home/post/p-...

Sometimes You Have To Shut It All Down To Start It All Up Again

Against GPS.

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Someone get me in a room with MacKenzie Scott’s folks and I’ll deliver my impassioned / well-constructed argument that it’s a moral imperative that she give $20 million to a new distributor specifically for nonprofit and small presses in order to offset her ex’s dismantling of the book industry.

I consider Dan Kraus to be a good friend, and @brianduffield.bsky.social ain't no slouch either, so I won't be reviewing WHALEFALL - but I just watched the trailer and holy fucking shit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ho...

Whalefall | Official Teaser | In Theaters October 16

YouTube video by 20th Century Studios

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wrote a little bit about complimenting strangers 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/on-complim...

On Complimenting Strangers

Unexpected inspiration.

1000wordsofsummer.substack.com

If you’re looking for a freelance book editor for your project, hit up @wcboggess.bsky.social. When I finished the trilogy, I wanted to someone to read the books back to back, to check consistency, tone, vibe, thematic progression, all of it. William was really great, perceptive & insightful!

wrote a little bit about complimenting strangers 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/on-complim...

On Complimenting Strangers

Unexpected inspiration.

1000wordsofsummer.substack.com

@colsonwhitehead.com's newest book is dedicated to New York City. Watch more from @todayshow.com www.today.com/video/colson...

Colson Whitehead Talks New Book, Unusual Writing Process, More

Bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead sits down with TODAY’s Craig Melvin to talk about the release of the third book in his acclaimed Harlem crime trilogy, “Cool Machine," op...

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Never expected to get one of the most thoughtful reviews of my writing life from Beauty News NYC (a true lovely kindness to see this book so engaged with already): www.beautynewsnycofficial.com/lifestyle/25...

was very touched and surprised to learn I had won this year’s Gabe Hudson Prize for Will There Ever Be Another You. my deepest thanks to Gabe’s mother Sanchia Semere and McSweeneys

Patricia Lockwood wins $10,000 Gabe Hudson Prize for a dark, comic COVID-19 novel

Patricia Lockwood wins this year's Gabe Hudson Prize for her novel “Will There Ever Be Another You.”

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went to yoga for the first time in 2 months today and may or may not have spent half the class in child’s pose.

Good time as any to announce that that I can generate a field plan for you if you want to take out a local Republican office holder. Any seat, any city, any parish.

I saw both "Maddie's Secret" and "The Invite" these past few days and laughed a lot at both, recommend.

I sat down with New Orleans City Council Member Lesli Harris at R Bar to talk the fight with Gov. Landry, the state’s war on the homeless, Black voter disenfranchisement and more www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

New Orleans Council Member Lesli Harris says GOP leaders want to 'take over New Orleans'

In a wide-ranging interview on The Get Down, Gambit Editor John Stanton asked Council Member Lesli Harris about the ongoing feud between state and city leaders, River District developments and if she'...

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Thanks to Trey Monaghan, the owner of French Quarter institution Molly's, for writing this excellent essay on the struggles Lower Decatur businesses are facing as a result of Sewerage & Water Board mismanagement and incompetence www.nola.com/gambit/comme...

Guest Column: Don’t Forget Decatur

This week, thousands of visitors will pour into the French Quarter for Tales of the Cocktail, and many of them will walk straight into a construction fence that’s cut off

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This sounds tasty

Tour time approaches on its little cockroach feet. Come on out if you feel empty inside — it won’t make you feel better, but sometimes it’s nice to get out of the house.

remember when we used to say things like "nature is healing"

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

Highly recommend Partially Devoured by Daniel Kraus — which is at once a frame-by-frame dissection of the seminal film, a muscular work of cultural and historical analysis, and a covert memoir. #horror #horrorbooks #zombies #nightofthelivingdead #romero

Real tricky to get super excited about having a book coming out a year from now (but I'll try anyway)

Michael Taeckens@mtaeckens.bsky.social · last mo.

The state of books coverage today

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

wrote a little bit about some thinking inspired by the calculation of volume series 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/the-contai...

The Container of Your Books

Back home + some thought exercises.

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