Andy Oler
@andyoler.bsky.social
Parent, English prof, Hoosier. He/him. Departments Editor, New Territory, #LiteraryLandscapes. Old-Fashioned Modernism (LSU 2019), Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell (MSU 2023) & Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest (UIP 2025).
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Happy Pub Date to LINGERING INLAND: A Literary Tour of the Midwest edited by @andyoler.bsky.social, with a foreword by @joseolivarez.bsky.social!
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#LiteraryStudies #Midwest
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#LiteraryStudies #Midwest
December 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Happy Pub Date to LINGERING INLAND: A Literary Tour of the Midwest edited by @andyoler.bsky.social, with a foreword by @joseolivarez.bsky.social!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
#LiteraryStudies #Midwest
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#LiteraryStudies #Midwest
Today’s the day! Find your copy wherever books are sold!*
* preferably an independent bookstore somewhere between Cleveland and western Nebraska
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* preferably an independent bookstore somewhere between Cleveland and western Nebraska
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Lingering Inland
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December 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Today’s the day! Find your copy wherever books are sold!*
* preferably an independent bookstore somewhere between Cleveland and western Nebraska
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
* preferably an independent bookstore somewhere between Cleveland and western Nebraska
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Here we go, the inaugural issue of Rust Belt Studies: A Journal of Public and Emplaced Humanities! I'm happy to see the work that Katie and Valentino are doing—please read, submit, and support! www.rustbeltstudies.org
Home | Rust Belt Studies
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December 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Here we go, the inaugural issue of Rust Belt Studies: A Journal of Public and Emplaced Humanities! I'm happy to see the work that Katie and Valentino are doing—please read, submit, and support! www.rustbeltstudies.org
We've got a brand-new volume of #LiteraryLandscapes for you to peruse, this time on Mark Twain! Even before you click the link below, check out these portraits—they make me wonder if *anyone* at the turn of the 19-20c was photographed more.
December 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We've got a brand-new volume of #LiteraryLandscapes for you to peruse, this time on Mark Twain! Even before you click the link below, check out these portraits—they make me wonder if *anyone* at the turn of the 19-20c was photographed more.
We had a really wonderful book launch for Lingering Inland last night! Thanks to everyone who came out!
December 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
We had a really wonderful book launch for Lingering Inland last night! Thanks to everyone who came out!
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Q&A with the author of LINGERING INLAND - Illinois Press Blog
Andy Oler, editor of Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest, answers questions about his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? Lingering Inland grew [...]Read More
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December 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Here’s the recording of yesterday’s radio interview to discuss Lingering Inland on Illinois Public Media!
@andyoler.bsky.social, editor of the new book LINGERING INLAND: A Literary Tour of the Midwest, talks about the book's essays and writers on @ilpublicmedia.bsky.social's @21st.show with @brianmackey.com
How has being from the Midwest influenced some of our best writers?
December 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Here’s the recording of yesterday’s radio interview to discuss Lingering Inland on Illinois Public Media!
So thrilled to be on this list!
And this month, just under the wire, brings @andyoler.bsky.social's edited collection LINGERING INLAND, a set of 73 original short essays riffing on the places of Midwestern literature, with a foreword by @joseolivarez.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Lingering Inland
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December 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
So thrilled to be on this list!
My Aunt Tracy sent me a note and look at this brilliant sticker
December 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
My Aunt Tracy sent me a note and look at this brilliant sticker
I’ll be discussing Lingering Inland tomorrow (Thursday 12/11) on The 21st Show on Illinois Public Media. Catch it live at noon Eastern! It will also be available later wherever you get your podcasts! will.illinois.edu/21stshow
The 21st Show | Illinois Public Media
The 21st is Illinois's statewide news talk show. Produced by Illinois Public Media and airing on five NPR member stations in central and northern Illinois.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I’ll be discussing Lingering Inland tomorrow (Thursday 12/11) on The 21st Show on Illinois Public Media. Catch it live at noon Eastern! It will also be available later wherever you get your podcasts! will.illinois.edu/21stshow
Look at that beautiful box of books!
December 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Look at that beautiful box of books!
Pretty pleased with this end-of-semester grading set-up
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Pretty pleased with this end-of-semester grading set-up
Check out this nice article @stlmag.bsky.social published about our Lingering Inland launch party!
The 9-year-old biannual magazine has now led to an anthology.
From Missouri, ‘The New Territory’ tells stories of the Midwest
For nearly a decade now, Tina Casagrand has been focused on bucking all the trends in journalism: She’s publishing a 128-page print magazine, focused on the Midwest. And it’s working. The magazine, a ...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Check out this nice article @stlmag.bsky.social published about our Lingering Inland launch party!
If you're still looking for Christmas gifts for your Midwestern friends and family, Lingering Inland is on sale at @illinoispress.bsky.social! I'll drop the pre-order link below.
NOW ANNOUNCING the UIP Holiday Sale!
Take 40% off every.single.book (!!) with code HOLIDAY40 at checkout!
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Take 40% off every.single.book (!!) with code HOLIDAY40 at checkout!
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#BookSale #BuyBooks #ShopLocal #ReadUP
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If you're still looking for Christmas gifts for your Midwestern friends and family, Lingering Inland is on sale at @illinoispress.bsky.social! I'll drop the pre-order link below.
Toby's remembrance was yesterday, and the barn was pretty much completely full. I made a playlist of his recordings for background music, and two of his good friends played three of his songs live, and mom, Ali, and I talked. It was a really hard day, but there was a lot of love for Toby in the room
November 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Toby's remembrance was yesterday, and the barn was pretty much completely full. I made a playlist of his recordings for background music, and two of his good friends played three of his songs live, and mom, Ali, and I talked. It was a really hard day, but there was a lot of love for Toby in the room
My brother Toby killed himself a week ago Wednesday. He was a talented musician and writer, and a good uncle to my kids, and we loved him very much. Here is a video of him playing with his band The Nashville Knives. Toby is on the right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tty0...
Toby Oler and The Nashville Knives
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November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
My brother Toby killed himself a week ago Wednesday. He was a talented musician and writer, and a good uncle to my kids, and we loved him very much. Here is a video of him playing with his band The Nashville Knives. Toby is on the right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tty0...
I’ve been given the highest honor
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I’ve been given the highest honor
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"A poet reacts to the immigration crackdown in his hometown the way he knows best: through verse."
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@joseolivarez.bsky.social is the foreword author of LINGERING INLAND, edited by @andyoler.bsky.social
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@joseolivarez.bsky.social is the foreword author of LINGERING INLAND, edited by @andyoler.bsky.social
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October 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"A poet reacts to the immigration crackdown in his hometown the way he knows best: through verse."
www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...
@joseolivarez.bsky.social is the foreword author of LINGERING INLAND, edited by @andyoler.bsky.social
cc: @chicagomag.com
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@joseolivarez.bsky.social is the foreword author of LINGERING INLAND, edited by @andyoler.bsky.social
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Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.
Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?
"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
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October 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.
Look at that beautiful cover! Look at those beautiful people! @rosstangedal.bsky.social @dawnburns.bsky.social @leahamilne.bsky.social
Two months until LINGERING INLAND: A Literary Tour of the Midwest is released!
Pre-order your copy here: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
📷: Four LINGERING INLAND contributors with editor @andyoler.bsky.social at @indianahumanities.bsky.social's Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest
Pre-order your copy here: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
📷: Four LINGERING INLAND contributors with editor @andyoler.bsky.social at @indianahumanities.bsky.social's Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest
October 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Look at that beautiful cover! Look at those beautiful people! @rosstangedal.bsky.social @dawnburns.bsky.social @leahamilne.bsky.social
Come visit me and The New Territory at Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest!
October 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Come visit me and The New Territory at Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest!
Boarding a flight for Indy—come join us tomorrow at Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest! indianahumanities.org/event/litera...
Literary Landscapes of the Midwest - Indiana Humanities
This panel will feature a conversation about Midwestern literature that travels widely through time and space—beginning with hyperlocal experience and building toward a larger mosaic of the diverse st...
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October 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Boarding a flight for Indy—come join us tomorrow at Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest! indianahumanities.org/event/litera...
I'll be at Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest this weekend with @dawnburns.bsky.social @leahamilne.bsky.social @rosstangedal.bsky.social courtesy of @indianahumanities.bsky.social—come see us! indianahumanities.org/program/proof/
Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest
Indiana Humanities will celebrate the power of writing that grows in the Midwest during Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest on Oct. 10 and 11, offering a full schedule for writers, readers, and lovers of all th...
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October 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I'll be at Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest this weekend with @dawnburns.bsky.social @leahamilne.bsky.social @rosstangedal.bsky.social courtesy of @indianahumanities.bsky.social—come see us! indianahumanities.org/program/proof/
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I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels
Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive
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October 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
I've edited a couple fun essays for the next volume of #LiteraryLandscapes, and I'm looking for more! If you have a favorite Midwestern (ish) author and have visited one of their places, pitch me! newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...
Literary Landscapes - The New Territory Magazine
A project about the ways that Midwestern literature is relevant today—how we engage with the stories we tell about our region.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I've edited a couple fun essays for the next volume of #LiteraryLandscapes, and I'm looking for more! If you have a favorite Midwestern (ish) author and have visited one of their places, pitch me! newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...