I don't want anything from the NYT. But, yes.

I’m thrilled and humbled that my short story, “The 1975ers” won first place in the first Republic of Letters fiction contest. For friends in New York City, I’ll be reading on Friday night and the story will be published this week. Link in the entry below:

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Earlier this week, I won first place in The Republic of Letters first short fiction contest. The piece just pubbed! Link below:

Part of this "AI witch hunt" is growing pains. Writers are staring into the abyss of our own possible extinction. It's terrifying! Asking if a writer used AI is partly also asking, What makes a voice human? What makes it authentic? What makes one's own voice invaluable and

My latest: Like other writers/editors, the proliferation of ChatGPT and the like—at high schools, colleges and journalism itself—horrifies me and leads to probably-not-paranoid questions about articles that’re read every day. splicetoday.com/digital/artifi…

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The post-adolescent urge to feel clever that you've tricked your professors with AI-written essays. That'll show them. Meanwhile, mom is paying $50k/year for you to be there. The future has great experiences in store for you. Believe that.

Radical thought: the way to attain a kinder, gentler world is to kill fewer people. I know. I know. It sounds crazy, but maybe . . .

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A Thread of London’s long-lost shopfronts. 📸 from Philip Davies’s London: The Great Transformation, 1860-1920 1. Harold Brown booksellers on Tottenham Court Road