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It would be a very Percival Everett move to go ahead and write the fake Percival Everett book from the AI generated summer books roundup.

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I am going to win this reality show and use the millions of dollars to start a podcast about the short stories of Deborah Eisenberg.

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guys the chicago sun-times thing was an homage

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I have a friend in town -- most delightful lunch on the north side of Chicago ??

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always fun to quiz NIMBYs on this #, they never get it right

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well this is a new one

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Anyone experiencing the dust storm in #Chicago today? Please send me an email at [email protected].

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Showing up to speak on behalf of housing is a small, heroic thing you can do to improve your world. It is hard to overstate the positive impact of YIMBY presence at such hearings in recent years—you can completely flip the incentives for planners, commissioners, and politicians.

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new George Saunders story!!

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wow so the Louis CK novel is a horror story about book distribution

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[kid spotting 'A Visit from the Goon Squad' on their parents' bookshelf]: 🤯🤮

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The piece of fiction published last year that gave me the most surprising jolt of readerly pleasure was a 15,000-word novella published directly to Substack. This got me wondering what else was happening literature-wise on the platform -- the subject of my piece up today at @newyorker.com.

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My streetball-inspired literary journal is called and+1

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Is the Next Great American Novel Being Published on Substack?（次の偉大なアメリカ小説はサブスタックで出版されるのか？）║The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/is-the-next-great-american-novel-being-published-on-substack

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Just sent out an installment of my extremely irregular newsletter of updates on my published writing: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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I wrote about having a mystery tumor in my knee (and Jeff Tweedy) (and songs with no chorus) (or no verses? same thing I guess).

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“I know many of my readers, particularly women, will read Jack as a sociopath,” the story’s narrator says. But “I really don’t think that’s fair.” www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

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Loserchella

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the yearly application of an alcohol cleaning pad to my laptop keyboard

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Substack writers run the gamut from successful authors to passionate amateurs. Why are so many literary enthusiasts flocking to the platform?

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The piece of fiction published last year that gave me the most surprising jolt of readerly pleasure was a 15,000-word novella published directly to Substack. This got me wondering what else was happening literature-wise on the platform -- the subject of my piece up today at @newyorker.com.

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wow my least favorite app is president now?

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Has the Pope been to Billy Corgan's highland park teahouse??

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Serengeti voice: Favorite pope LEO

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A Pope is Born

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Made a huge mistake and convinced my wife to try Andor. Now she likes it and I can't watch Andor while she's asleep.

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If only the 2020 Freud revival has gone a bit further -- he is an for this AI moment. Death drive everywhere, a civilization boring holes in itself and bleeding out.

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Across the board, this country is completely bereft of political and cultural leadership that isn't being offered by the right and tech billionaires. No alternative direction or vision. We're just running on cruise control towards oblivion.

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yeah the general public is totally in the tank for this stuff

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I just did a lesson with hs freshmen: we read Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home' together, stopped wherever anyone had a question/ thought and talked it out, linked it to other stories of war and alienation. Chromebooks away, phones in bin at front of class. Handwritten short answers at end. Good times.

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If Edmund White knows what is good for him, he will NOT (I repeat NOT) get into a rap battle with Eminem

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ban 'Toona Melts'

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Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 3pm Eastern / 12 noon Pacific.

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bUt It CAn wRiTE GoOd sUMArries/nOTes 4 sTuDenTs

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Like ... Leftists would be serious about analyzing what happens when leftists or left-branded people take power within existing institutions.

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Lincoln Ave in Lincoln Square has only been pedestrianized for two weeks and already it has evolved to have a tram and six-story buildings

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I have now developed distinct voices for all of the 'Soldier's Home' characters

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The fact that (as far as I know) not one of the leftist publications that cheered on Brandon Johnson's candidacy and victory has written anything like a serious consideration of his tenure is ... Annoying. I say this as a person of the left. The silence feels almost pathological.

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wow they made even o'hare worse

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nobody asked for this

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After his release from federal custody today, Mohsen Mahdawi delivered a bold message to Donald Trump and his Cabinet: “Let me make this clear—I am not afraid of you.

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“In the absence of a increase in actual deportations, the [Trump] administration seems to have pursued an increase in deportation spectacles: images celebrating people's expulsion from the country with a visceral glee...” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/m...

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Why the White House Started Making Deportation Cartoons: "If the Abu Ghraib photos leaked today, it's possible to imagine that the White House would repost them approvingly." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/m...

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Look at this video: a huge crowd of Vermonters swaying alongside Mohsen right after he was freed, singing "We Shall Overcome" Signs reading "Hands off our students" & "free speech" are peppered in between large Palestine flags

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