If you’re in road trip distance from Manhattan, KS, come join me next weekend! #LiteraryLandscapes

Faculty are not "better" than other state employees. But they are different. They are hired for their ideas, not to reflect the views of the state. Ban them from expressing those ideas, and you no longer have a university; you have a propaganda factory. insidehighered.com/news/faculty-i…

The 8 levels of Midwestern Anger 8. “Woah woah woah” 7. “Hold your horses” 6. “Jeez Louise” 5. “No sh*t Sherlock” 4. “For Pete’s sake” 3. “Well, now wait a minute” 2. “For crying out loud” 1. “Listen here pal”

Op-ed: #Florida’s draconian book banning law confusing, poorly worded news-press.com/story/opinion/…

More and more people—in tech companies, consultancies, regulators, universities, among others—are saying this and proving it to be true: AI does very bad work and creates more labor for humans. crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-…

Thanks to Bitter Southerner for publicizing resistance to FL censorship efforts: “School board elections are winnable,” Moricz said. “The margins are winnable. We’re able to show students that if one marching band voted, they could flip a school board.” bittersoutherner.com/feature/2024/c…

Congratulations to Pete Dulin and Rosemary Hope, whose #LiteraryLandscapes essays were our 2024 nominees for Best of the Net! Thanks to Humanities Kansas and High Plains Public Radio for helping bring "Literary Landscapes in Kansas" to life!

Absolutely unsurprising—yet still damning—to read the stats about Florida university professors fleeing the state that Dew cites in this column. It doesn't have to be this way. tampabay.com/opinion/2024/0…

Thanks for this write-up from @PeteDulin, whose #LiteraryLandscapes essay was one of our nominations for Best of the Net by SundressPublications! petedulin.com/best-of-the-ne…

Evidence that rob harvilla understands his demographic at the deepest level: middle-aged Midwestern man listening to a podcast about 90s music while cleaning up from a flood

New #LiteraryLandscapes, all on Toni Morrison—enjoy!

Check out Tara Conley's essay on #Morrison. I feel like I've been sitting on this one so long, and I'm delighted to finally put it out in the world!

I've never had two essays in the same volume deal with locations in the same city, but I love how Ashley's essay about Lakeview Park plays off Tara's reflections on Morrison's childhood home.

Trivius takes such a cool, personal angle on Morrison—it's a great example of an approach that not everyone has access to!

One of the super cool things about this essay was how Alice takes the experience of reading and thinking about Morrison and connects it to her own life, an ocean away.

For this #LiteraryLandscapes essay, I appreciate how Monique focuses less on Morrison's fiction and thinks more about her as a public speaker and symbol.