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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This award in particular means a lot to everyone at SH - it’s so specifically directed towards the goal that underpins everything the magazine does. By which I mean: shucks. 💜

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Tristan Beiter @tristanbeiter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This, 100%. (And I didn't go to Williams but did go to a different tiny elite liberal arts school!). The sort of model of assessing learning the article advocates for is simply not viable in most contexts. And, done correctly, writing is just as iterative and generative a process as conversation!

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Tristan Beiter @tristanbeiter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a great essay! And I have to admit, while I am much too young to have been present for McKuen's heyday,I read *Come to Me in Silence* in high school courtesy of my local library and I thought it was hot garbage! But even then I thought there was something compelling about his role in culture

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This reminds me of a *fantastic* Slate article by Dan Kois on '70s superstar poet and contemporary nonentity Rod McKuen. Just an amazing article.

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Fifty Years Ago, He Was America’s Most Famous Writer. Why Haven’t You Ever Heard of Him?

He sold 60 million books and 100 million records. Then he disappeared.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Having an established formula for the art to be The Art does not make the art any less Art. Having the established formula does NOT in fact make it possible to make the Art into something that can be procedurally generated. Working within the constraints of the formula means More work, not less.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am not a romance writer (yet, you never know) but I like including romance plots in my own writing and I like reading romance novels, especially queer romance and writing good romance takes tons of skill. It's tired and boring to see people continually put down this genre.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 26/09/2026

Mary Beard, Chair of the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel, on why she dislikes the phrase ‘I really love reading’. This clip is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre, and you can watch the full Booker Prize 2026 shortlist event on their YouTube channel: youtube.pulse.ly/axkmrdaxr9

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Y'all know Bean Soup Theory? How someone can post a recipe for bean soup and the replies will be "BUT WHAT IF I DON'T LIKE BEANS?!" That is sometimes annoying trolling but it's predominantly people failing to understand how to read for context, understand intended audience, etc.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.

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Tristan Beiter @tristanbeiter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

These are amazing and now I have to find and read this (assuming it's available in the US)

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You can't, and shouldn't seek to, replace public schools or libraries with bookstores. You can't replace a public good with a private business, no matter how well-meaning or well-organized it may be.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One more thing about this - one reason it hits as hard as it does because we get to hear directly from a parent about the ways a poor public school sabotages a student's learning and growth. We hear about these schools in ways that dehumanizes children and families, almost never in personal terms.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

New from Nikole Hannah-Jones: In fighting for every Black child, Did I betray my own? ‘A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge NYC’s unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice’

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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16/09/2026

BRB googling how to keep this from happening to my estate

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The way Annie Dillard reframed the idea of the role of “discipline” in writing really shaped my understanding of the job — work, she wrote, “does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline.” I cannot recommend The Writing Life highly enough. RIP to the best. bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor
with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order
—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living. Each day is the same, so you remember the series afterward as a blurred and powerful pattern.

There's a common notion that self-discipline is a freakish peculiarity of writers—that writers differ from other people by possessing enormous and equal portions of talent and willpower. They grit their powerful teeth and go into their little rooms. I think that's a bad misunderstanding of what impels the writer. What impels the writer is a deep love for and respect for language, for literary forms, for books. It's a privilege to muck about in sentences all morning. It's a challenge to bring off a powerful effect, or to tell the truth about something. You don't do it from willpower; you do it from an abiding passion for the field.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When Karin reached out to me about this piece, I knew it would be good and it is even better than I expected www.chronicle.com/article/high...

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Higher Ed’s Harvard Problem

An exclusive club of colleges commands the public narrative. Does that come at a cost?

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 14/09/2026

"on every campus there are two universities—the administration and the faculty—who are competing with one another. Indeed the two are fundamentally at odds about what a university is" from me & @vox-magica.bsky.social in @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/religion-hum...

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Religion, Humanities, and the Public Good

The right wing's assault on Religion and Humanities programs is an assault on our ability to understand the world, from Hindutva abroad to Christian Nationalism at home.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 09/09/2026

Rather, what happened was that esoteric, technical expression in the humanities was demonized during the culture wars as a right-wing tactic for undermining humanistic analysis en toto. You see the same thing going on in the Vanderbilt Report, btw. The culture wars never ended.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 09/09/2026

The public respects math and many sciences because they are complex, seen as expert-driven and intelligible only via expertise. But many people seem to believe that human culture is simply and does not require real expertise or sophisticated, technical interpretation to understand

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Tristan Beiter @tristanbeiter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

RT with your home river. The Susquehanna--just a block away from the house I grew up in (where my parents still live). I wasn't one for wading in to fish anything but "let's go down to the river" was a common way to just take a walk, and it's visible from the front porch so everpresent

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Pedagogy is not some new, unsolved problem awaiting its Silicon Valley disruptor. If you want good teaching in any given subject, it’s there to be had. If you just don’t want to pay for it, then all we’re really talking about is how much you want something for nothing. That’s nothing new, either.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you don't learn literary fiction, you'll be obsolete in the new literary fiction economy.

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“The poem is always in your hometown, but you have a better chance of finding it in another.” Richard Hugo www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/694...

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The Triggering Town

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“I wish I was obscenely rich so I could act like a Renaissance noble and lavishly patronize creative people on a decadent whim to make stuff specifically for me” is a fantasy I frequently entertain

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I still think that a lot of the elites of the litfic world today seem like they don't actually like literature and think that writer and critic are smart people jobs that they deserve for being smart people.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 03/09/2026

I sincerely believe that algorithms calibrated toward outrage/anger have created an atmosphere where shallow/lazy readings of media are rewards with actual money, and the exhausting discourse cycles over people not understanding subtext is getting into the heads of writers

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s about time we had a reckoning with the need so many writers feel to over-explain everything aspect of their stories, even in non Weird genres. Readers don’t need to be babied. Let us figure things out. Leave room for interpretation. Over-explanation makes writing worse.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There is no real way to train a historian without having students immerse themselves (repeat THEMSELVES) in the material. Its what sparks that interest in the first place! Its when they have their baby eureka moments, and begin to form connections and think historically. gAI is poison for all that.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ive been thinking the same thing, and kind of hesitant to say it out loud because we're already a group considered to be luddites and technophobes, when its really our sense that students absolutely must train their own minds to read primary sources, and think/write with primary+secondary sources.

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Tristan Beiter @tristanbeiter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A great thread about Obsession (the movie) and but I specifically want to second this aside!

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Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It’s the day after, and the sound of erupting cheers for Elis Montgomery winning Best Poem still fills me with joy. May this be the energy next year. May this be the energy after 2029. May speculative poetry remain a beacon star in the constellation of our genre, forever and always.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 19/08/2026

By this, I mean that folks who're committed to the ongoing adventure of argument are also enthusiasts who live within this ambiguity. Whereas those who dismiss debate and its constellations in favour of simple, single answers are chiefly careless pretenders.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 19/08/2026

This is a good essay on the humanities, which rightfully celebrates literary style, traditions of debate, and the value of interpretation. My chief problem with this Primary/Secondary Source People distinction is that most Secondary Source People are also Primary Source People, but not vice versa.

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is increasingly true of weird studies(tm) that just use the fiction as case studies for ontology or climate change. Writing about weird fiction should be poetics as much as it is anything else

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Nina Jo Smith @njsmith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So good.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Highkey misogynistic, but also people like this do not seem to understand that a class called like, "English Literature from Milton to James" is an easy class or babies, whereas a 300 level class about dolls is where they make you actually think and read and do work.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/08/2026

Viewpoint diversity is the opposite of peer review. You should not be leading a university if you don’t believe in peer review asheeshksi.substack.com/p/producing-...

The fact that conservative scholarship is underrepresented in our institutions ultimately means that the left gets flabbier because it’s not being tested and challenged in the way it ought to be. At the same time, the right, to the extent that it moves outside the university and finds itself in think tanks and is not subject to challenges or critiques from the center and the left, becomes more radicalized. This is not just a problem for our institutions. It’s a problem for America. So I do feel urgency in trying to remedy this issue. It was my colleague Steve Teles, who wrote in The Chronicle about this, who said he was hard pressed to identify a single tenured conservative scholar in the social sciences and humanities at Hopkins. I took that as a very serious critique

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

to put it another way, “conservative” is not a scholarly category pitch a hire specifying “leftist” and I imagine the problem would be obvious

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

please try to imagine that the world is larger, more interesting, and infinitely more important than the mental horizon of an American op-ed page

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

2.) one of the big strengths of SFFH is the sense of awe and wonder those genres can induce in their audience. if you start making fun of your fantastical ideas just because they're fantastical, you completely kill any chance that such a sense will emerge.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 23/08/2026

I think the class of school administrators (not just in higher ed) who act fast to insulate core pedagogical functions from AI will reap major rewards for their trouble. In a few years, there will be an extremely stark difference between people who used AI in school and people who are competent

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For you I would build a whole new universe Jack Spicer

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For you I would build a whole new universe but you obviously find it cheaper to rent one. Eurydice did too. She went back to hell unsure of what kind of other house Orpheus would build. “I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.” Shot
In the back by an arrow, President Kennedy seemed to stiffen for a moment before he assumed his place in history. Eros
Do that.
I gave you my imaginary hand and you give me your imaginary hand and we walk together (in imagination) over the earthly ground.

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Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Friendly reminder that you can access a very fun, varied & sexy repository of newer indie books through our website (and we’ll ship an order to you anywhere in the US) eveninghousebooks.com OR you can stop by the shop & sit on our lovely thrifted loveseat & chairs, read & drink honey orange soda

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Evening House Books

Buffalo's downtown bookstore, a parlor-style cove for deep cut indie literature and bold, diverse, voices.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 16/08/2026

Was having a conversation on this topic just recently. A book (or story or painting or movie or whatever) is not a puzzle with a Correct Solution. It's an experience to think about and with, to chew over and then bring to other experiences.

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