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).
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."
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@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.
www.startribune.com
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...
indianahumanities.org
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
www.thetimes.com
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.
newterritorymag.com
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...
Check out these @wittybanterism.bsky.social prints that my brother commissioned of my parents’ old house and barn
September 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Check out these @wittybanterism.bsky.social prints that my brother commissioned of my parents’ old house and barn
It’s open house at the high school tonight, and at the entrance cheerleaders are waving people in while the jazz band plays. Couldn’t be more charming?
September 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It’s open house at the high school tonight, and at the entrance cheerleaders are waving people in while the jazz band plays. Couldn’t be more charming?
I'm on the program committee this year, and befitting our partnership with the @miamiuniversity.bsky.social Humanities Center, I'd love to see a broad range of Midwest Studies presentations at this year's conference!
🚨CFP🚨 The Midwestern History Association invites proposals for the 12th Midwestern History Conference, Thursday, April 30–Friday, May 1, 2026, hosted by Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in conjunction with its annual Altman Symposium in the humanities. Submission Deadline: Monday, December 8, 2025.
2026 Conference — Midwestern History Association
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September 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I'm on the program committee this year, and befitting our partnership with the @miamiuniversity.bsky.social Humanities Center, I'd love to see a broad range of Midwest Studies presentations at this year's conference!
Sitting in a coffee shop, preparing to teach The Green Corn Rebellion for the first time, and I had forgotten that it kicks off with such a banger
September 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Sitting in a coffee shop, preparing to teach The Green Corn Rebellion for the first time, and I had forgotten that it kicks off with such a banger
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This article on Disney and the collapse of the middle class is an absolute banger
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class
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August 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This article on Disney and the collapse of the middle class is an absolute banger
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
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There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
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As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
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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
August 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Advanced Reader Copy! Look at this beauty
August 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Advanced Reader Copy! Look at this beauty
Saw my favorite truck in the wild this morning
August 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Saw my favorite truck in the wild this morning
I’m reading Middlemarch for the first time, and though a youth baseball clinic is pretty great for a morning of reading, and there are both lovely and funny passages, I can’t help but think I could have used some guidance to really appreciate this book
June 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I’m reading Middlemarch for the first time, and though a youth baseball clinic is pretty great for a morning of reading, and there are both lovely and funny passages, I can’t help but think I could have used some guidance to really appreciate this book
Banner day: introducing the children to Wayne’s World
June 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Banner day: introducing the children to Wayne’s World
Check it out: the pre-order link for Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest! This book collects dozens of #LiteraryLandscapes essays, and pre-orders will ship in November—perfect for Christmas! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Lingering Inland
www.press.uillinois.edu
June 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Check it out: the pre-order link for Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest! This book collects dozens of #LiteraryLandscapes essays, and pre-orders will ship in November—perfect for Christmas! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
It’s a good afternoon, finally getting to settle in with Ashley Howard’s Midwest Unrest
June 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It’s a good afternoon, finally getting to settle in with Ashley Howard’s Midwest Unrest
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"In many fields of study, including literature, philosophy, and the humanities more broadly, ambiguity is not a problem to be solved. It is a resource for continuous critical thinking, renegotiating arguments, and reflection." Co-written w/ @jeppestricker.bsky.social
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The disappearance of the unclear question
AI speeds up research, but without friction, do students lose the deep thinking that turns bad questions into meaningful learning?
www.unesco.org
June 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
"In many fields of study, including literature, philosophy, and the humanities more broadly, ambiguity is not a problem to be solved. It is a resource for continuous critical thinking, renegotiating arguments, and reflection." Co-written w/ @jeppestricker.bsky.social
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
My excellent colleague Weishun Lu interviewed me about Old-Fashioned Modernism for her New Books Network podcast. Thanks to her for asking good questions that mostly made me sound like I know what I'm talking about!
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Andy Oler, "Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature" (LSU Press, 2019) - New Books Network
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June 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
My excellent colleague Weishun Lu interviewed me about Old-Fashioned Modernism for her New Books Network podcast. Thanks to her for asking good questions that mostly made me sound like I know what I'm talking about!
newbooksnetwork.com/old-fashione...
newbooksnetwork.com/old-fashione...
I *wish* I were at a Des Moines brewery instead of in a hotel room drinking chamomile tea and babying my voice, but here's a little preview of tomorrow's #MHA2025 presentation.
May 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I *wish* I were at a Des Moines brewery instead of in a hotel room drinking chamomile tea and babying my voice, but here's a little preview of tomorrow's #MHA2025 presentation.