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S.L. Wisenberg

@slwisenberg.bsky.social
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#writer #breastcancer #Chicago #cnf #fiction #WeimarRepublic #onebreastedfeminist #FrenchResistance, author, THE ADVENTURES OF CANCER BITCH, THE WANDERING WOMB: ESSAYS IN SEARCH OF HOME, HOLOCAUST GIRLS, THE SWEETHEART IS IN

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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Back on Bluesky after a long while. What did I miss?
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
8 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...
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Another 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...
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Mamdani 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.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Congratulations 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…
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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?
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Bravo, Glendale. Bravo. More, please. And it's time for Democrats to loudly say, "Abolish ICE." Someone please stand up and have a spine.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Veterans 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...
Protesters hold signs and flags.Protesters hold signs reading, "No Domestic Militarization"
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The 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?
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Sad 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.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Is 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.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Historic day. No foolin,' Made my first QR code (for free). Not bad for an Eisenhower baby.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This 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.com
Economic Blackout: What to know about the February 28 boycott taking off on social media
This 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.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The canary is on life support.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We 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...
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A cancer manifesto
Why I'm going to keep writing about it
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Google Maps says, How high? to Trump. www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...
reuters.com
Google Maps to rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' for US users
Google 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.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
They don't waste time.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The 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.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
ICYMI--Highlights from last month's annual #breastcancer symposium in San Antonio: www.breastcancer.org/news/sabcs-h...
breastcancer.org
The 2024 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium: Key Takeaways
Read highlights from the most important research presented at the 2024 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS).
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
There's always a bright side.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
This 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.com
Citizen Lazlo!: The Lazlo Letters, Volume 2
Lazlo writes again! Reprising the inspired lunacy that …
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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-pfas
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Scientists 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.
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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...
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Chicago Reader print issue of December 19, 2024 (Vol. 54, No. 12)
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Putting a #panelproposal together for GSA having to do with #WWII #EuropeanJews #internees #UK #refugeecamps #Switzerland --anybody doing with in these areas?
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
So 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
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Cancel the birthday cake Friday: www.thebrighterside.news/post/scienti...
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Scientists discover major link between sugar consumption and aging
Scientists have discovered a link between diets rich in vitamins and minerals and a younger biological age at the cellular level
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Denver 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...
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Denver 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.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 09/12/2024
White 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.com
Migrant teen stabbed to death, another wounded in Lower Manhattan; 3 suspects sought
Police 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.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Assad's in Moscow. What a surprise.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Them's fightin' words. www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
texasmonthly.com
The New York Times Denounced “Y’all.” We’d Like a Word.
Is this even really a debate?
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
great idea
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Fruit has no place inside a bagel.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I'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
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It was obvious to me as a total outsider that it was real, not mass hysteria. Not so obvious to the media.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Laws that kill #women
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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 #art
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I'm joining the exodus from X. Haven't been here for a while. How are things here? #cnf #litmags #universitypress ?
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
Who's up for an #awp25 proposal for a reading by Jewish and Muslim women? In person or online.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
We talked about telling and not telling people about our cancers-- lithub.com/s-l-wisenber...
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
BOOKS 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.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
Chicagoans: 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
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
This Saturday in Rogers Park (Chicago)--a few tickets left.
poster: house concert to benefit recent migrants with Flo Estes and Emily Haden Lee (music) and authors Michael Zapata and me. 7pm this Saturday. $25/person. Contact: alindall@gmail.com for info.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Nonfiction writers! Top essay wins a residency + publication!
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
The 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...
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5 Questions for the 2023 CHIRBy Awards Finalists, Part I
In 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…
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
Did you order a Palestine-Israel empathy kit? opensiddur.org/prayers/tora...
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"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. . . .
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Thanks, @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social and @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social for sponsoring the reading last night. It was great to hear everyone.
Faces of the four performers: Willie Lin, Michael Dean, Marissa Kerbel and S.L. Wisenberg
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Can'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!
book cover showing a woman eating alone at a table and through the window you can see a group of people interacting. Cravings by Garnett Kilberg Cohen
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Cuz 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...
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
People 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...
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Yay, Adrienne! Yay, AFSCME Council 31! Crain's 40 under 40. Well-deserved!
Adrienne Alexander shown in black dress throwing a punch.
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S.L. Wisenberg @slwisenberg.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
This is good. hyperallergic.com/849889/new-y...
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