Adin Dobkin
@adindobkin.bsky.social
Writer + Teacher · Sprinting Through No Man's Land and These Bones Can Speak (forthcoming) · adindobkin.com
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on today's episode of racial capitalism
US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.
September 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
on today's episode of racial capitalism
Incredible how much of the writing on The Bear is more or less meaningless words that do nothing more than indicate what emotion the writers want to convey
July 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Incredible how much of the writing on The Bear is more or less meaningless words that do nothing more than indicate what emotion the writers want to convey
We’ll see how long this takes, but pairing Edel’s five volumes on James with an accompanying book for each (or at least a couple early short stories, for this first volume).
May 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
We’ll see how long this takes, but pairing Edel’s five volumes on James with an accompanying book for each (or at least a couple early short stories, for this first volume).
If you're a federal worker who's experienced the absurdity of laboring under this regime, the editors of the Amenia Free Review would love to hear from you (if you DM me, I'm happy to provide my Signal, too, if preferred).
March 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If you're a federal worker who's experienced the absurdity of laboring under this regime, the editors of the Amenia Free Review would love to hear from you (if you DM me, I'm happy to provide my Signal, too, if preferred).
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I'm excited to do some nonfiction editing with my friends at
the Amenia Free Review. To that end, I put down a few thoughts on what I'd like to see (in short, writing that understands itself as a politically engaged form of art). I hope you'll pitch!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
the Amenia Free Review. To that end, I put down a few thoughts on what I'd like to see (in short, writing that understands itself as a politically engaged form of art). I hope you'll pitch!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
AFR Call for Pitches
Hi All— I’m excited to join my friends at the Amenia Free Review in commissioning nonfiction work for the journal. They summarized AFR’s intent well when they wrote “we’d like to publish the best exp...
docs.google.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I'm excited to do some nonfiction editing with my friends at
the Amenia Free Review. To that end, I put down a few thoughts on what I'd like to see (in short, writing that understands itself as a politically engaged form of art). I hope you'll pitch!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
the Amenia Free Review. To that end, I put down a few thoughts on what I'd like to see (in short, writing that understands itself as a politically engaged form of art). I hope you'll pitch!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I'm excited to do some nonfiction editing with my friends at
the Amenia Free Review. To that end, I put down a few thoughts on what I'd like to see (in short, writing that understands itself as a politically engaged form of art). I hope you'll pitch!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
the Amenia Free Review. To that end, I put down a few thoughts on what I'd like to see (in short, writing that understands itself as a politically engaged form of art). I hope you'll pitch!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
AFR Call for Pitches
Hi All— I’m excited to join my friends at the Amenia Free Review in commissioning nonfiction work for the journal. They summarized AFR’s intent well when they wrote “we’d like to publish the best exp...
docs.google.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I'm excited to do some nonfiction editing with my friends at
the Amenia Free Review. To that end, I put down a few thoughts on what I'd like to see (in short, writing that understands itself as a politically engaged form of art). I hope you'll pitch!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
the Amenia Free Review. To that end, I put down a few thoughts on what I'd like to see (in short, writing that understands itself as a politically engaged form of art). I hope you'll pitch!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
If you're a writer in NYC, I'm serving as a literature judge for Café Royal Cultural Foundation this year! Café Royal is giving out grants of up to $10,000 for NYC-based writers. Submissions for the quarter just closed, but will reopen on March 4th.
caferoyalculturalfoundation.org
caferoyalculturalfoundation.org
Café Royal Cultural Foundation
caferoyalculturalfoundation.org
January 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
If you're a writer in NYC, I'm serving as a literature judge for Café Royal Cultural Foundation this year! Café Royal is giving out grants of up to $10,000 for NYC-based writers. Submissions for the quarter just closed, but will reopen on March 4th.
caferoyalculturalfoundation.org
caferoyalculturalfoundation.org
An incredibly embarrassing industry, I'm afraid to say
January 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
An incredibly embarrassing industry, I'm afraid to say
Back at it (one last time)
January 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Back at it (one last time)
When the archive is closed on Mondays, the only thing to do is keep ripping through this
January 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
When the archive is closed on Mondays, the only thing to do is keep ripping through this
Nearly every time I feed my sourdough starter then stir it with a spoon, it gains an extra gram of weight and I'm wondering to myself if yeast doesn't have access to some sort of portal or wormhole technology
December 5, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Nearly every time I feed my sourdough starter then stir it with a spoon, it gains an extra gram of weight and I'm wondering to myself if yeast doesn't have access to some sort of portal or wormhole technology
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The CUNY Digital History Archive is looking to expand and we need all the help we can get. Join us!
Are you passionate about collecting, sharing, and mobilizing CUNY movement histories? We're recruiting volunteer researchers to join our project advisory board, research & editorial board, education & outreach committee, and collection curators: cdha.cuny.edu/participate
Get Involved · CUNY Digital History Archive
The CUNY Digital History Archive is a participatory project that centers the experiences of students, workers, faculty, community residents, retirees, and alumni of the City University of New York.
cdha.cuny.edu
November 20, 2024 at 8:33 PM
The CUNY Digital History Archive is looking to expand and we need all the help we can get. Join us!
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Democrats have spent years carefully abandoning political positions it fears might cost them votes, each time getting closer to the ultimate goal: a political party that has zero positions and therefore cannot lose votes.
November 20, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Democrats have spent years carefully abandoning political positions it fears might cost them votes, each time getting closer to the ultimate goal: a political party that has zero positions and therefore cannot lose votes.
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Multiple sources are now reporting LLMs aren't scaling as hoped—larger datasets and more compute aren't improving AI systems as fast.
The companies, naturally, are pressing on, calling for billions more in investment. One way to read this: The hope is to make AI too big to fail.
The companies, naturally, are pressing on, calling for billions more in investment. One way to read this: The hope is to make AI too big to fail.
November 14, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Multiple sources are now reporting LLMs aren't scaling as hoped—larger datasets and more compute aren't improving AI systems as fast.
The companies, naturally, are pressing on, calling for billions more in investment. One way to read this: The hope is to make AI too big to fail.
The companies, naturally, are pressing on, calling for billions more in investment. One way to read this: The hope is to make AI too big to fail.
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The fight for access to education - & for the persistence of scholarship, libraries, & archives - is entering a new phase.
And the vanguard is, as always, HBCUs.
Urgent episode with @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @ajdouglas.bsky.social, Jelani Favors, Kelly Grotke, Jared Loggins, & Crystal Sanders.
And the vanguard is, as always, HBCUs.
Urgent episode with @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @ajdouglas.bsky.social, Jelani Favors, Kelly Grotke, Jared Loggins, & Crystal Sanders.
Philanthrocapitalism U
Podcast Episode · The American Vandal · S11 E7 · 1h 34m
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November 12, 2024 at 12:21 PM
The fight for access to education - & for the persistence of scholarship, libraries, & archives - is entering a new phase.
And the vanguard is, as always, HBCUs.
Urgent episode with @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @ajdouglas.bsky.social, Jelani Favors, Kelly Grotke, Jared Loggins, & Crystal Sanders.
And the vanguard is, as always, HBCUs.
Urgent episode with @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @ajdouglas.bsky.social, Jelani Favors, Kelly Grotke, Jared Loggins, & Crystal Sanders.
(seriously) starting revisions today with the pulling of one thread from chapter one, as it presently exists, to make a new chapter one—surely the most unbearable part of the writing process that one wishes to never repeat
November 13, 2024 at 1:20 PM
(seriously) starting revisions today with the pulling of one thread from chapter one, as it presently exists, to make a new chapter one—surely the most unbearable part of the writing process that one wishes to never repeat
Ready for some holiday travel @lclaberge.bsky.social
December 24, 2023 at 8:21 PM
Ready for some holiday travel @lclaberge.bsky.social
Excited to dive into this one, especially after doing a bit of Benjamin re-reading recently
December 18, 2023 at 9:45 PM
Excited to dive into this one, especially after doing a bit of Benjamin re-reading recently
Not a McGuane fan, I suppose
December 13, 2023 at 11:40 PM
Not a McGuane fan, I suppose
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i think the one thing i am most struck by is how fragile these personalities are. most of them received essentially mild pushback and immediately jettisoned whatever principles they claimed to have inthesetimes.com/article/form...
Losing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn Right
What do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right?
inthesetimes.com
December 13, 2023 at 12:21 AM
i think the one thing i am most struck by is how fragile these personalities are. most of them received essentially mild pushback and immediately jettisoned whatever principles they claimed to have inthesetimes.com/article/form...
A fun edition of The Princess Casamassima I picked up a couple weeks ago (at the always excellent Our Bookshop in Saugerties, NY) which includes the original printing of Trilling’s essay on the book
December 4, 2023 at 1:10 PM
A fun edition of The Princess Casamassima I picked up a couple weeks ago (at the always excellent Our Bookshop in Saugerties, NY) which includes the original printing of Trilling’s essay on the book
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Today is the official publication day for my book, and I couldn't be happier to see this excerpt—on the historical novels of @colson.bsky.social, and the book that started it all—published in LitHub!
The History of the United States According to Colson Whitehead
Since the publication of his first novel in 1999, Colson Whitehead has become one of the most lauded, prized, taught, and studied American novelists writing today. Winner of the National Book Award…
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November 21, 2023 at 2:48 PM
Today is the official publication day for my book, and I couldn't be happier to see this excerpt—on the historical novels of @colson.bsky.social, and the book that started it all—published in LitHub!
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Fun fact: NYC libraries didn't use to be open on Sundays. Jews petitioned City Hall to open the libraries on Sundays because Saturday was Shabbes, and observant Jews who worked during the week had difficulty using the library.
NYPL and other NYC public libraries suspend Sunday service as Mayor Eric Adams orders massive budget cuts
November 16, 2023 at 8:36 PM
Fun fact: NYC libraries didn't use to be open on Sundays. Jews petitioned City Hall to open the libraries on Sundays because Saturday was Shabbes, and observant Jews who worked during the week had difficulty using the library.
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Fun fact: one way that the collapse of Twitter has made things harder for small pubs is that it's now really difficult to get stuff like this in front of the people who might have a pitch.
RT to help a small history mag out. 🗃️ contingentmagazine.org/x-files/
RT to help a small history mag out. 🗃️ contingentmagazine.org/x-files/
Jose Chung's December Issue
Since it premiered on September 10, 1993, The X-Files has challenged its viewers to think about truth, memory, power, perspective, and technology. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the show, we are...
contingentmagazine.org
November 14, 2023 at 2:02 AM
Fun fact: one way that the collapse of Twitter has made things harder for small pubs is that it's now really difficult to get stuff like this in front of the people who might have a pitch.
RT to help a small history mag out. 🗃️ contingentmagazine.org/x-files/
RT to help a small history mag out. 🗃️ contingentmagazine.org/x-files/