Read Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive! It's beautiful, sad, joyful, timely and timeless. And note the red post-it flags—a few passages to return to.

David and I visited @wildrumpusbooktore.bsky.social in Minneapolis yesterday. I worked there a long time ago, and was delighted to find that the inventory and spirit are still magical--and backed by hard work and smarts. My hat's off to Timothy and all!

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So much is (always) going on. I think about hometown Chicago often. And here's a mostly unrelated mini blog piece from jessicaroeder.com.

No Kings

Duluth, MN

Just because: By Whale, my erasure of Moby-Dick, is a free EPUB or PDF at www.jessicaroeder.com/projects-in-...
Thanks to the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project for access to Pressbooks. Hooray for public libraries.

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.

It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

Not feeling like celebrating today. We do have sunshine, butterflies, places for animal neighbors to rest or tuck themselves away during band amplification and fireworks. Watermelon. Drafting new work.

Called Rep. Pete Stauber's Washington office. When you press 2 as a constituent, you get cut off. No one's home at his local office. Sigh. Two sighs.

News! I'm a 2025 McKnight Writer Fellow. Gratitude to the McKnight Foundation, @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social, Marion Gómez, and writer-hero judge Valeria Luiselli. And congratulations to fellow Fellows Ty Chapman, Tracy Ross, Kathryn Savage, and @sunyungshin.bsky.social.
#McKnightFoundation #Loft

Today’s crash is not to be referred to as Black Monday. It is White Boy Monday.

by Karoline Leavitt

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

Keep Reposting

Got out there in the cold/sun/wind and stood on some snow with fellow Duluthians—lots of us!

Wisconsin, polls are now open until 8:00 PM!

Make your voice heard and vote for Judge Susan Crawford.

Find your polling place: myvote.wi.gov

Jessica Roeder
jessica854163.substack.com?r=58d9xn&utm...

Two words:
leafy seadragon

We celebrate Austen and her sister Brontë's birthday on March 15. This is Austen. How I wish we could still smooch that forehead.