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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 15h

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 14h

Absolutely. (And, also: I would happily adopt this dog if didn't already have a home.)

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"We were all queens and princesses and princes and kings back then ..." "Every now and then I hear about a resurgence, but I refrain from witnessing it on my own ..." @shomedasgupta.bsky.social in Scrawl Place scrawlplace.com/2026/09/29/t...

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The Acadiana Mall Fairy Tales - Scrawl Place

LAFAYETTE, La.—An essay by Shome Dasgupta, inspired by the Acadiana Mall. Read it on Scrawl Place.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 30/09/2026

This week's story is "Framed" by @eliseblackwell.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/stories/fram...

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"In the story, the girl always dies of spider bites, When in fact she disappeared by breaking into the jagged pieces of glass Littering the roadsides & glinting in the empty light that shines there."

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I didn’t know it was #LitMagWeek until just now. There are so many litmags I love. Gonna shout out a few each day this week. 1/ @claudineliterary.bsky.social @gonelawn.bsky.social @yourimpossiblevoice.com @jmwwjournal.bsky.social @alocasiamag.bsky.social @templeinacity.bsky.social

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm incredibly pleased to be in Necessary Fiction again. (This story emerged from research I was doing on 1899 New Orleans for a different, longer project.)

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Waiting for someone to get out of surgery who I expected to be out a good long while ago. I don’t particularly like this, not at all.

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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When you chat with ChatGPT you're chatting with a sociopath.

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Andrew Wittkop @awestfell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Duty bound to mention that pre-orders are still on sale with free shipping, so it's a great deal whether or not a paltry class action settlement is spontaneously combusting in your pocket!

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Making a difficult couple of weeks magnitudes brighter, I've received a pair of lovely blurbs for my forthcoming novel. I'm so incredibly grateful for the generosity of writers I've met only on the page. 1/3

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Dealing with a new elder-care situation, and I'm grateful to everyone who has allowed me to take something off my plate--and especially to my husband for going above and beyond while our little bungalow is occupied by a third human, a third rescue dog, and a door-blocking wheelchair.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm from Louisiana and didn't know about this until I started researching late nineteenth-century New Orleans history for a novel I'm writing. (Grateful to all the city's historians, archivists, and journalists. A proper tribute to come at some point!)

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Day before first class of the fall. I have a firm AI policy (none), but so does the college at which I teach (literally: “more!”) I don’t think anyone outside education fully appreciates how quickly this has overwhelmed… everything. I’m excited to teach again, but I also already feel… very sad.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I did the dialect quiz and was pretty annoyed that my last answer was "poor boy." What was even the point of everything between that and "y'all?" (Also: I don't say "poor boy," but rather "poboy," but that was the closest answer.)

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Anthropic settlement question for the writers and publishers of Bluesky: If book publication rights reverted to an author in 2007, does the publisher still have a right to claim the default 50/50 split or should the author contest?

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My husband just called me over to show me this, and I do feel indicted.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

U of SC's Fall Literary Festival is more series than festival, but it's a good one. (I'm not an organizer, so I'm not bragging.) Julia Elliott kicks it off next week, and you should absolutely come out for this most recent winner of the Carol Shields Prize. sc.edu/about/office...

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Fall Literary Festival - University Libraries | University of South Carolina

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PaAAAAAAAAH!!!z Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Anybody have any favorite POV switches in fiction? Where an event is told from one perspective and then another? Ideally outside of fantasy/sci-fi

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 02/09/2026

This week's story is "The Last Straw" by @markabdonwrites.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/stories/the-...

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Adding Eva Figes to my list, intrigued especially by the slim tomes.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A blessing on writers who are generous to other writers.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

One of the best things I ever did was marry a piano player with a fabulous voice. (Yep, I just heard a perfect 11 am live performance of "I Heard Buddy Bolden Shout.")

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dusting off my German to read Péter Nádas obituaries. RIP.

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Cadaver Formosus is Already Spooky @cadaverformosus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Apparently it's national dog day and these are the dog days of summer. If you want to know why, this is still one of my favorite pieces by @colindickey.com. Give yourself a little treat and learn about a dog saint.

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A Faithful Hound

A&nbsp;few years before he died in 1261, the Inquisitor and Dominican friarStephen of Bourbon&nbsp;began writing a long treatise on faith—one that included one of the more perplexing incidents...

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Those three-graces trios are bringing up the tears. (Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt.)

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

people don’t even ask to meditate on time, loss and history anymore they just look at you like this

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For as long as my pro-AI university allows me to ban generative AI, I'll continue to do so. But because so many classes allow or even encourage it, even in the Humanities (ugh), I feel like I have to lay out more of my reasoning every semester. Basic argument: LET'S MAKE HUMAN THINGS, WHILE WE CAN.

Generative AI Policy:

Other classes at ASU may allow or even encourage the use of generative AI, but in this course, you will not use it for either your fiction or your reading responses
Together, we’re reading and writing work made by humans, for humans, in search of a human reaction. It is not appropriate to ask me or your classmates to read fiction or other prose written primarily or in part by machines
(I will also not use AI in my class prep or in any of the materials I make for you: this course is an expression of my ideas, art practices, and imagination, designed for you by me, based on years of study and experience)
Especially at the start of your artistic and academic careers, I believe that even light reliance on tools such as AI will inhibit the development of the skills, mindsets, and abilities necessary for your success
TLDR: I want your fiction, and your reactions to the books we read. That’s the path to an A in this class (and, more importantly, to learning all that this class has to offer)

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Who shall tell what may be the effect of writing?

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Saw one headline too late. (But feeling okay so far.)

Photo of opened bag of Greenwise blueberries.

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Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Our submission window is almost here, so prepare those packets, and send us something you can't wait to get out there. We're excited to see what you send our way. Keep your eyes on our submission guidelines for our new folio themes, too! kenyonreview.org/submit/

Kenyon Review submissions open September 1–30.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Going through the last of my dad’s belongings: boxes of poetry rejections from the 1970s-1990s. Most are form letters with handwritten notes from some of the 20th-century’s most esteemed poetry editors. Some are kind. Many are spiteful. All are making me (sort of) miss paper submissions and SASEs.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Though 103 degrees feels wrong for the first day of fall classes, I’m excited to see my students tomorrow.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

My heart is heavy that we are making a collective miscalculation in undervaluing the humanities - from my FT piece www.ft.com/content/fbde...

Thinking is hard. Reflection is hard. Perhaps we will persist with our collective miscalculation and ignore all that philosophy, literature, classics and history have to offer us. The humanities have a word for this: tragedy.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We really, really want your suggestions! What books would you like to see Smith & Taylor publish?

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This book was great. Absolutely gripping. Linked short stories where the links really made it more than the sum of its parts.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The most overused word in contemporary fashionspeak is *moment.* Not only as in "Chanel is having a summer moment" or "that was a viral runway moment," but also your pants or shoes as "a style moment" in your outfit. The outfit is also a moment, of course. (Yes, I'm researching fiction.)

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

With book coverage at several venues dropping to almost nothing, I’m once again looking for places accepting book reviews/editors interested in a horror, crime, or literary fiction column (3-4 books per month)/etc. All leads welcome.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Last spring, when my father was hospitalized and them moved into home hospice, I cancelled an overseas trip and a cross-country flight. An short upcoming regional flight just chewed up *both* of those e-credits. Flights are now this expensive: SC-Scotland + SC-California=SC-New Orleans.

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 11/08/2026

Imagine some wonderful weirdo out there with nothing to read and try your best to write their favorite book.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"Along with a flair for dramatic summaries, Sebald also possesses a workman’s eye for the mechanics of storytelling." --Matthew Spencer on "Silent Catastrophes"

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