I sometimes think about how the common ancestor of whales and humans crawled out of the ocean ~400 million years ago; but then ~50 million years ago, the whale ancestor said “screw this, we’re going back”.

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So enjoyed being part of the @latimes.com book festival. Brings me hope in a darker time to see so many people gather around the power of books and reading. Special thanks to @kategammon.bsky.social Susan Weiss Leibman and Lawrence Ingrassia for a great panel discussion. #latimesfob

Good lord stop what you’re doing and read this right now.

The irony of posting this from my phone aside, this from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is a dead on important read.

My bulldog has a keenly developed sense of irony.

Excellent piece on higher ed - and our misplaced societal focus - by UM president Seth Bodnar. Proud to work here.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This was not an average delivery tonight. Absolute floods of joy, pain, love and history in this one box.

A reminder for Americans that the 5Calls app makes it trivially easy to call your representatives. I’ve been using it daily. 5calls.org

The laziest tendency, I think, of current US politics discourse is telling people who are harmed by political extremism to “just leave.” I took a road trip with Zooey Zephyr, who isn’t giving up on Montana but fighting back. Story out today in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...

That’s it, I’m hanging up writing. This from Rae Hodge can’t be topped.

Authors (current and hopeful), this newsletter from Anna Sproul-Latimer at Neon Literary is a terrific resource, and often highly entertaining to boot. Check it out.
neonliterary.com/glow

Pre-orders of THIS ORDINARY STARDUST now available. This project has been a labor of many emotions, and the most important one of my life. Excited to share it with the world. #authors
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-...