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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Huge thanks to Matt Sawyer of City Lights Bookstore (NC) for bringing, among other gifts, a stellar understanding of my book to a fun, insightful discussion. One great pleasure of publishing a book is hearing other people summarize it way better than you can. www.storymadeproject.com/booksonthebe...

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BOOKS ON THE BED | Story Made

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Here's one way to help Springfield families affected by the ending of TPS--donations for food boxes. Here's hoping paths to permanent residence / citizenship are what replaces TPS instead of more deeply needless brutality. In the meantime: ancljkuy.donorsupport.co/page/FoodBox...

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Feed Haitian Families in Crisis

Many Haitian families in Springfield are entering a time of crisis. As Temporary Protected Status (TPS) ends, parents who have worked hard to support their families suddenly find themselves with no in...

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Let’s please create a new form of pacifist Luddite community where we refuse to use any technology created after 1999.

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I saw a graph today that showed the results of “machine learning” in ranking the relative “warmth” of a dead author’s salutation across thousands of her letters. It’s a new day in the humanities, with scholars eager to demonstrate how machines can make their work just as irrelevant in far less time

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We are now well into the long terrible months for which there are no seasonally themed giant Reese’s. It’s time to invent a summer shape! Flip-flop? Sunglasses? I would settle for repurposing the egg as “indeterminate scat” if it meant continued access to the correct proportion of PB : chocolate

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I knew I couldn’t be the only one looking for a 2-inch Baphomet figurine to offer to all the public institutions currently displaying Jesus figurines (both local post offices, for instance).

Screenshot: A five-star review for a tiny Baphomet statue in which the buyer says they were looking to match the vibe of the mini Jesus they are seeing everywhere. A picture of the two figurines, well matched in height, is included.

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Grateful to the 4 or 5 people who've already sent excellent leads for new farts to add to the database & to the folks who helped me make the original list (esp. my colleagues at OSUP & my book club). Thanks to Lit Hub for publishing this adaptation. It was a real blast! lithub.com/seven-of-the...

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Seven of the Greatest Farts in Western Literature

I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I spent the bulk of my twenties in various English programs writing papers with titles like “Metonymy and Violent Signifiers in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend” a…

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Bookstores rule. I’ll be up in Cleveland at Loganberry Books from 3-4 greeting people and stamping/signing books.

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I made up a bunch of funny book titles to illustrate a point. If you, too, want to write about a trend in scholarly publishing, get in touch with the team at Feeding the Elephant, who are totally lovely to work with!

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I didn’t realize how much I missed Nebraska. I operate at a very Nebraska speed (read: not fast). I’m back for a reading at Francie & Finch this Saturday April 18 at 4:30! Should be a good time. I’m also being interviewed tomorrow at 10 on Friday Live (gulp). francieandfinch.com/event/visiti...

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Visiting Author - Elizabeth Zaleski - The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure - Francie & Finch Bookshop

With excitement, Francie & Finch welcomes you to join us for a visit from author Elizabeth Zaleski! She will be presenting her new book of personal essays, The Trouble with […]

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I'm going to be talking to poetic and moral superstar *Allison Davis* next Tuesday, April 7, at Prologue Bookshop's NEW location in Columbus at 6:30. Allison and I will almost certainly have less trouble finding the new space than we did logging into the same Teams meeting to plan for it (my fault).

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

David Gutowksi has been asking writers about music and musicians about writing for a long time over at Largehearted Boy. I was very happy to contribute. You can listen to my playlist for Trouble and read about my choices here: largeheartedboy.com/2026/03/29/e...

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Elizabeth Zaleski’s Book Notes music playlist for her essay collection The Trouble with Loving Poets – Largehearted Boy

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I cannot say enough good things about the event put on by @literarycleveland.bsky.social tonight. My coreaders were phenomenal, Loganberry Books is an amazing space, the community was so supportive, and the folks running the org (Matt, Michelle, Caira, Lauren) were warm, hilarious, smart . . .

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

If you're in the Cleveland area and looking for something to do this Wednesday evening, I'll be one of three readers at an event at Loganberry Books hosted by Literary Cleveland. Starts at 7 with a social hour after. More info here (registration is requested): www.litcleveland.org/events-progr...

A purple flyer advertising the March 18 Plum City reading series at 7 p.m. at Loganberry books in Cleveland, featuring Kortney Morrow, Loung Ung, and Elizabeth Zaleski. The three authors are pictured below their book covers.

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I wanna read a memoir by someone who is good at MATH (not an autobiography by a famous science person, a memoir by a writer person who decided to be a writer despite being really good at math. Primo Levi’s Periodic Table, which I treat as a book of essays, is one of my FBOAT) (fav books . . . )

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

(pictured) Books and journals I brought home from AWP: Last Children of Mill Creek, Whiskey Tender, Character Witness, summonings, Agency 3, Heart Folds Early, Unmothered/Untongued, On an Inland Sea, Kenyon Review Rural Spaces folio. (not pictured) Viruses I brought home from AWP: COVID Worth it!

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

A happy pub day to this little book and everyone at Belt who made it happen. Couldn’t have asked for a better press. You rock, @beltpublishing.bsky.social

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Tomorrow is my pub day. I'll be working mostly, but I also have a therapy appointment scheduled because you gotta #planahead. I suspect that in 1.5 hours I'll still be the same idiot who just happened to write a book that Molly Young thinks you should read: mollyyoung.substack.com/p/so-you-thi...

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So you think you can read XI

Book recommendations "n" stuff for February

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Wow does this take me back. Pin trading was a HUGE part of traveling girls fastpitch culture in the 90s. I still have my collection of 100s of pins from teams all over the country. Each team had their own pin/s & we'd trade at tournaments. The unspoken rules were complex & totally worthy of comment.

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The craziest thing happened last week. One of my best friends from high school emailed me out of the blue about my book, and when I asked her how she'd heard about it, she sent me this 12 Must Read Books of Feb. 2026 list from the Chicago Review of Books, which she'd been made aware of because . . .

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12 Must Read Books of February 2026 - Chicago Review of Books

Here are the 12 books you need to read this February 2026.

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Tickled to see a book by a "totally unknown" writer (that would be my book, by me) recommended in Austin Kleon's newsletter alongside the likes of Radiohead. That's wild. Thank you, Austin!

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I somehow broke the site last night. Whoops. Working on restoring it, since I know it’s critical infrastructure.

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I really do hope my essay about editing academic prose finds its audience 😄

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

You are capable . . . of eating 3/4 of the bag straight out of the box in one sitting. Always believe in yourself.

A cheery, bright pink box of Strawberry Protein Cheerios featuring the encouraging slogan “You are capable”

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Thanks to Belt for sending some fun and insightful questions my way!

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Today in "things I've read that remind me of things I've written," this article is basically the TLDR version of my essay about all the dogs we had growing up and why I became a pet skeptic. It's the longest essay in the book (so many dogs)--but it has pictures! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Too Many People Own Dogs

If you love dogs, maybe don’t get one.

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I heard an Ohio Newsroom interview with Patrick Wensink about The Great Black Swamp totally by coincidence tonight on my local NPR radio station. Woohoo! @beltpublishing.bsky.social

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/11/2025

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/09/2025

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away theonion.com/fearful-americans-stoc…

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Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Toured the State Library of Ohio recently & spotted this shelf label--proof that our state govt used to provide some official documents in German as well as English to serve citizens (including my maternal grandpa's grandparents) who spoke German. Multilingualism has always been part of our history.

A bookshelf sign that reads "Rare State Documents, oversize German language revised statutes"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/08/2025

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...

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