S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Back on Bluesky after a long while. What did I miss? 000
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 05/11/20258 years ago I brought @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social back to life. We've done great things but I'm leaving as exec editor and nonfic editor. Why don't you apply? anotherchicagomagazine.submittable.com/submit/33755... and anotherchicagomagazine.submittable.com/submit/33754...anotherchicagomagazine.submittable.comAnother Chicago Magazine - Executive Editor (1-2 openings)Duties: Work with other editors to determine direction of magazine both long term as well as weekly as well as help manage staff of volunteers, contribute to grant writing as needed, make bookfair arr... 121
Reposted by S.L. WisenbergMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Mamdani reiterates his support for trans folks, his determination to fight "the scourge of antisemitism," and his pledge to fight Islamophobia--and throws a punch at the billionaire-funded campaign of lies against him. "In a time of political darkness, New York will be the light." This is a SPEECH. 41070151
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Congratulations to janetburroway.bsky.social today's well-deserved review by Pat Reardon at @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. The review was published on Simone In Pieces' publication day! thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2025/11/04…janetburroway.bsky.socialjanetburroway.bsky.social 010
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 30/06/2025"Submittable is currently experiencing an intermittent issue which is impacting performance. We've identified the issue and anticipate being back to normal very soon. Thank you for your patience—we apologize for the inconvenience." What could be more obfuscatory? 010
Reposted by S.L. WisenbergWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Bravo, Glendale. Bravo. More, please. And it's time for Democrats to loudly say, "Abolish ICE." Someone please stand up and have a spine. 472984748
Reposted by S.L. WisenbergIt's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Veterans are mobilizing - against the police state. "Demonstrators, including military veterans, gathered outside Camp Pendleton on Sunday to protest the potential deployment of active-duty military personnel to Los Angeles following recent immigration raids..." www.cbs8.com/article/news... 8486146
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 02/05/2025The MLA, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the American Historical Association (AHA) have filed a lawsuit in federal district court today, seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Who knows if it'll work? 020
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Sad news: Dear Links Hall Community, Far and Wide, Past and Present, Rooted and Growing, There is no easy way to say this. With heavy hearts, we share with you that our board of directors has voted to sunset the organization at the end of this current fiscal year, June 30, 2025. 020
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Is Lemonade legit? I received a letter from Lemonade Secure Processing Center saying that my driver's license number was in a data breach and I can enroll in protection services...to which I have to give my social security number. 020
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Historic day. No foolin,' Made my first QR code (for free). Not bad for an Eisenhower baby. 020
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025This Friday is the Feb 28 Economic Blackout, an economic boycott to protest what's happening in our country. Here's ta story from @fastcompany #Feb28 #economic #blackout www.fastcompany.com/91282923/eco...fastcompany.comEconomic Blackout: What to know about the February 28 boycott taking off on social mediaThis Friday, grassroots group The People's Union is asking Americans to buy nothing for 24 hours in an 'economic blackout' to protest skyrocketing prices and corporate greed. 110
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 06/02/2025We need an ACT-UP for breast cancer, writes Kaya Oakes: "I write about cancer because I walked the streets with friends who had AIDS and they shouted until there were treatments, but because we have successfully gendered and pink-ified..." kayaoakes.substack.com/p/a-cancer-m...kayaoakes.substack.comA cancer manifestoWhy I'm going to keep writing about it 120
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Google Maps says, How high? to Trump. www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...reuters.comGoogle Maps to rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' for US usersGoogle Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, it said in an X post on Monday. 020
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 20/01/2025The problem with lauding Houston as a great place because it welcomes immigrants is half the story. Yes, it's great that it's welcoming, but the city was built on a swamp. There were floods early on & they continue. The swamp will reclaim the land, as fire has in LA. 100
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 16/01/2025ICYMI--Highlights from last month's annual #breastcancer symposium in San Antonio: www.breastcancer.org/news/sabcs-h...breastcancer.orgThe 2024 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium: Key TakeawaysRead highlights from the most important research presented at the 2024 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS). 010
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 04/01/2025This punctures the pretensions of the monumental movie THE BRUTALIST, about Laslo Toth--how many remember Don Novello's deliberately ridiculous fake letters to celebrities, which he wrote under the name Lazlo Toth? @thebrutalist #hungarians #satire www.goodreads.com/book/show/57...goodreads.comCitizen Lazlo!: The Lazlo Letters, Volume 2Lazlo writes again! Reprising the inspired lunacy that … 100
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 19/12/2024 Microplastics and sinusitis????https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/18/nx-s1-5227172/microplastics-plastic-nanoparticles-health-pfasnpr.orgScientists know our bodies are full of microplastics. What are they doing to us?Plastic particles are found in our organs, blood and even semen. But do they stay in us forever? What damage are they doing? Here are six questions scientists are trying to answer. 010
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 18/12/2024 Thanks, Chicago Reader and Emily McClanathan for calling THE ADVENTURES OF CANCER BITCH required nonfiction reading: issuu.com/chicago_read...issuu.comChicago Reader print issue of December 19, 2024 (Vol. 54, No. 12) 210
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Putting a #panelproposal together for GSA having to do with #WWII #EuropeanJews #internees #UK #refugeecamps #Switzerland --anybody doing with in these areas? 000
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 11/12/2024So happy I just finished a performance poem for an online conference Dec. 17. It's about Rose Kushner, possibliy the first breast-cancer activist. #jewishstudies #feminism #breastcancer #deadline 010
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Cancel the birthday cake Friday: www.thebrighterside.news/post/scienti...thebrighterside.newsScientists discover major link between sugar consumption and agingScientists have discovered a link between diets rich in vitamins and minerals and a younger biological age at the cellular level 000
Reposted by S.L. WisenbergBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...businessinsider.comDenver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups. 7153690812487
Reposted by S.L. WisenbergSantiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 09/12/2024White supremacists in Manhattan stabbed two migrant teens after asking if the teens spoke English. Something tells me we’re not gonna see a nationwide manhunt for whoever did this. abc7ny.com/post/migrant...abc7ny.comMigrant teen stabbed to death, another wounded in Lower Manhattan; 3 suspects soughtPolice say before the chaos, words were exchanged when one of the suspects asked the teens if they spoke English. When they replied 'no,' that's when things took a turn for the worse. 781582585
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Them's fightin' words. www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...texasmonthly.comThe New York Times Denounced “Y’all.” We’d Like a Word.Is this even really a debate? 121
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I'm writing #fiction about a stateless woman who marries an American in 1933 in Italy. Suggestions for sources for info on what her nationality would/could become? #Jewishhistory #passports #Holocaust #forgeddocuments 000
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 05/12/2024It was obvious to me as a total outsider that it was real, not mass hysteria. Not so obvious to the media. 000
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 23/11/2024#literarywriters all genres: catamaranliteraryreader.submittable.com/submit... Got writing on fashion? Special issue. #poetry #cnf #fic #artcatamaranliteraryreader.submittable.com 010
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I'm joining the exodus from X. Haven't been here for a while. How are things here? #cnf #litmags #universitypress ? 010
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 15/05/2024Who's up for an #awp25 proposal for a reading by Jewish and Muslim women? In person or online. 000
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 12/04/2024We talked about telling and not telling people about our cancers-- lithub.com/s-l-wisenber... 000
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2024BOOKS w/ A 2nd LIFE. I want to interview writers who've published a book, then had it reissued by another press after a number of yrs. How did you market it? Did you consider the book differently? Did you revise it? Was it received differently? Also a possible AWP panel proposal. 000
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 05/04/2024Chicagoans: 4/17 (Wed.) Free reading, Allium lit mag. Columbia College, 5:30pm, 754 S. Wabash (Student Center), fifth floor. With Chris Solís Green, Natalie Greene, Kelley Engelbrecht, Sarah Terez Rosenblum and Yasmine Essence Soria & me. allium.colum.edu 000
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 27/02/2024This Saturday in Rogers Park (Chicago)--a few tickets left. 020
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Nonfiction writers! Top essay wins a residency + publication! 000
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 01/12/2023The Wandering Womb was nominated for a Chi Review of Books Award or CHIRBy in nonfiction. Here are interviews with some of the nominated writers: chireviewofbooks.com/2023/11/29/5...chireviewofbooks.com5 Questions for the 2023 CHIRBy Awards Finalists, Part IIn anticipation of the 2023 Chicago Review of Books (CHIRBy) Awards ceremony, we asked our finalists a few questions about their books, their inspirations, and their favorite way to spend 2 hours a… 120
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 29/11/2023Did you order a Palestine-Israel empathy kit? opensiddur.org/prayers/tora...opensiddur.org"An important message, November 2023," a prayer-poem in the form of a shipping notice by Kohenet Ila..."An important message, November 2023" is a shipping notice from God and a meditation on parochial empathy. . . . 030
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 10/11/2023Thanks, @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social and @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social for sponsoring the reading last night. It was great to hear everyone. 140
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 31/10/2023Can't wait to read these stories again. They accrue meaning bit by bit and are quirky in the best way. By Garnett Kilberg Cohen. #fiction #shortstories #UniversityofWisconsinPress Pub date tomorrow! garnettcohenauthor.com #ChicagoReviewofBooks anticipated book of 2023! 011
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 24/10/2023Cuz there just isn't enough literature about asthma. Breathing Through It: Essays from the (Asthmatic) Body - S.L. Wisenberg. reading/discussion. THURSDAY, Oct. 26, Chicago - noon - 12:45 Central--Northwestern Memorial Hospital/ also on Zoom. www.bioethics.northwestern.edu/about/events... 010
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 17/10/2023People often don't think of Texas as Southern. But the state was part of the Confederacy. (Moses Austin encouraged Virginia cotton planters to come, too.) Thus, statues. Hey, hey, tow them away! As Houston is doing. And Goodbye, Columbus, too. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/hou... 000
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 16/10/2023Yay, Adrienne! Yay, AFSCME Council 31! Crain's 40 under 40. Well-deserved! 000
S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 16/10/2023This is good. hyperallergic.com/849889/new-y... 010