Jennifer Gilmore
@jennifergilmore.bsky.social
Novelist, Prof, New Yorker in PA (that was fun)
Jennifergilmore.net
Jennifergilmore.net
Reviewing this Woody Allen debut novel (!!) just made me think about the horror of the 90’s…
A bespectacled, Jewish hypochondriac with literary pretensions and a creepy fascination with his stepson's girlfriend — Guess who?
Woody Allen's debut novel 'What's With Baum" stars a bespectacled, creepy, Jewish hypochondriac. Sound familiar?
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October 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Reviewing this Woody Allen debut novel (!!) just made me think about the horror of the 90’s…
Thank you.
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Thank you.
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This job posting depresses the hell out of me, especially as it's better pay than 90% of jobs I've had or could get these days
August 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This job posting depresses the hell out of me, especially as it's better pay than 90% of jobs I've had or could get these days
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The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.
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July 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
I just love this. Thinking how novels could do this.
This is delightful!
There was a rather charming trend in the 1910s to introduce the actor at the beginning of the film by showing them first in their street or evening clothes and then dissolving into the costume of their characters. Here we see recent stage import William S. Hart become a bandit in THE BARGAIN (1914).
May 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I just love this. Thinking how novels could do this.
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Won’t be Harvard on the other side of this unless they act like they are what we imagine Harvard to be now. Right now.
“Harvard now faces one of the most consequential choices in its history: Submit to extortion and make itself complicit in the most profound assault on academic freedom and constitutional governance of our time—or go to court. The stakes are high, but the choice should not be difficult.” (Fixed link)
Harvard’s moment of truth - The Boston Globe
The stakes are high, but the choice should not be difficult.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Won’t be Harvard on the other side of this unless they act like they are what we imagine Harvard to be now. Right now.
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Hope to see you in LA! @jennifergilmore.bsky.social #AWP
March 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Hope to see you in LA! @jennifergilmore.bsky.social #AWP
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ICE deported Jerce Reyes Barrios, a Venezuelan soccer player who was tortured by Maduro’s dictatorship. He had applied for asylum in the U.S. No evidence he committed any crime. No gang membership. Then ICE sent him to a prison in El Salvador.
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March 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
ICE deported Jerce Reyes Barrios, a Venezuelan soccer player who was tortured by Maduro’s dictatorship. He had applied for asylum in the U.S. No evidence he committed any crime. No gang membership. Then ICE sent him to a prison in El Salvador.
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When I searched this initially a year or so ago two of my books had been used. Now it’s all five novels and several articles. AI’s eely fingers grow and grow and no creative is compensated.
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
When I searched this initially a year or so ago two of my books had been used. Now it’s all five novels and several articles. AI’s eely fingers grow and grow and no creative is compensated.
Best headshot. ❤️
March 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Best headshot. ❤️
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I was in a room with a few octogenarians yesterday and I thought man, these people survived Jim Crow.
My grandfather was 12 when Emmett Till was lynched. His dad almost met the same fate in Georgia.
Amnesia will be our downfall if you don’t keep speaking up that history is right there.
My grandfather was 12 when Emmett Till was lynched. His dad almost met the same fate in Georgia.
Amnesia will be our downfall if you don’t keep speaking up that history is right there.
February 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I was in a room with a few octogenarians yesterday and I thought man, these people survived Jim Crow.
My grandfather was 12 when Emmett Till was lynched. His dad almost met the same fate in Georgia.
Amnesia will be our downfall if you don’t keep speaking up that history is right there.
My grandfather was 12 when Emmett Till was lynched. His dad almost met the same fate in Georgia.
Amnesia will be our downfall if you don’t keep speaking up that history is right there.
The NAACP has published a Black Consumer Advisory to leverage spending for change: naacp.org/campaigns/bl...
The Black Consumer Advisory
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February 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The NAACP has published a Black Consumer Advisory to leverage spending for change: naacp.org/campaigns/bl...
Things are looking great just great
Trump Proposes the U.S. Take Over Gaza as He Hosts Netanyahu: Live Updates
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Things are looking great just great
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Watching this on repeat how is your day going?
January 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Watching this on repeat how is your day going?
Great news for readers. @andyhunter777.bsky.social killing it with @bookshop-org.bsky.social
Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books
Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Great news for readers. @andyhunter777.bsky.social killing it with @bookshop-org.bsky.social
Teaching this film this coming week. It’a perfect and timeless.
50 years after its debut, 'Hester Street' reminds us what it means to be a Jew in America
Debuting in 1975, Joan Micklin Silver's classic black-and-white film 'Hester Street' is a bittersweet fable of Jewish assimilation.
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January 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Teaching this film this coming week. It’a perfect and timeless.
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What are the mediocrities going to do when they find out that “DEI” isn’t their problem? I’m curious.
January 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
What are the mediocrities going to do when they find out that “DEI” isn’t their problem? I’m curious.
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If you think Elon did nothing offensive, perhaps try it yourself at work or at school or in Germany or Austria and see how that goes for you.
January 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If you think Elon did nothing offensive, perhaps try it yourself at work or at school or in Germany or Austria and see how that goes for you.
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📚 Whitney, Michael and I ( @broadside-pr.bsky.social ) did a @literaryhub.bsky.social column back in …hahaha… December 2016.
It, mostly, holds up?
lithub.com/ask-the-publ...
It, mostly, holds up?
lithub.com/ask-the-publ...
Ask the Publicists: An Author’s Survival Kit for Dark Times
Q: I’m a member of the alt-right and I’d like to self-publish my memoir. Can you help me? A: Hmmm. By “alt-right” do you mean what we think you mean? Then: Q: Oops I didn’t vote. Can yo…
lithub.com
January 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
📚 Whitney, Michael and I ( @broadside-pr.bsky.social ) did a @literaryhub.bsky.social column back in …hahaha… December 2016.
It, mostly, holds up?
lithub.com/ask-the-publ...
It, mostly, holds up?
lithub.com/ask-the-publ...
“All department and agency heads with responsibility for United States foreign development assistance programs shall immediately pause new obligations and disbursements of development assistance funds to foreign countries and implementing non-governmental organizations, international organizations…”
Reevaluating And Realigning United States Foreign Aid – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“All department and agency heads with responsibility for United States foreign development assistance programs shall immediately pause new obligations and disbursements of development assistance funds to foreign countries and implementing non-governmental organizations, international organizations…”
Oh David Lynch we will miss you so. We already have…
January 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Oh David Lynch we will miss you so. We already have…
“…midday Israel had yet to convene ministers to discuss the proposal, citing last-minute disputes with Hamas. On Thursday morning, the office of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, accused Hamas of reneging on parts of the agreement, without specifying which ones.”
Israeli Cabinet Has Yet to Vote on Gaza Cease-Fire Deal: Live Updates
The agreement, which would include the release of hostages, was met with cautious optimism after 15 months of war. But Israel’s cabinet needs to ratify the deal, and the prime minister’s office said t...
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
“…midday Israel had yet to convene ministers to discuss the proposal, citing last-minute disputes with Hamas. On Thursday morning, the office of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, accused Hamas of reneging on parts of the agreement, without specifying which ones.”
Re Gaiman it’s not hard. It’s not an art or artist kind of tug o war. If you can think of anything else while reading or watching a Gaiman text or show have had it. I will never be able to unthink it.
January 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Re Gaiman it’s not hard. It’s not an art or artist kind of tug o war. If you can think of anything else while reading or watching a Gaiman text or show have had it. I will never be able to unthink it.
This post makes me think of truly countless interactions with older male writers I’ve had. It was just part of being female. In fact we were meant to take these comments as compliments.
In my late 20s, my then boyfriend took me to visit a family friend—a much older writer with a dreamy lake house.
After much conversation, the older writer turned to my then boyfriend and said, “She’d be a tough one to rape.”
I’m thinking about that a lot right now.
After much conversation, the older writer turned to my then boyfriend and said, “She’d be a tough one to rape.”
I’m thinking about that a lot right now.
January 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This post makes me think of truly countless interactions with older male writers I’ve had. It was just part of being female. In fact we were meant to take these comments as compliments.