Matt Weinkam
@mattweinkam.bsky.social
Executive Director of Literary Cleveland
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Matt Weinkam
@mattweinkam.bsky.social
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Free registration for our Inkubator Writing Conference is now open!
Sign up for virtual and/or in-person events September 8-13!
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Sign up for virtual and/or in-person events September 8-13!
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@bschillace.brandyschillace.com's book The Intermediaries is one of Kirkus' Best of 2025.
www.kirkusreviews.com/best-of/2025...
www.kirkusreviews.com/best-of/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
@bschillace.brandyschillace.com's book The Intermediaries is one of Kirkus' Best of 2025.
www.kirkusreviews.com/best-of/2025...
www.kirkusreviews.com/best-of/2025...
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what the hell why not. here’s 1500 words on a song i like www.pastemagazine.com/music/starsh...
“We Built This City” is a good song, actually
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
what the hell why not. here’s 1500 words on a song i like www.pastemagazine.com/music/starsh...
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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peeping this late-inning Guardians run production
September 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
peeping this late-inning Guardians run production
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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When poets debate whether metaphor itself perpetuates harm, every image becomes an ethical choice.
@philipmetres.bsky.social's DISPATCHES FROM THE LAND OF ERASURE captures these heated conversations, changing how we approach poems that engage cultural difference.
press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp...
@philipmetres.bsky.social's DISPATCHES FROM THE LAND OF ERASURE captures these heated conversations, changing how we approach poems that engage cultural difference.
press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp...
September 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
When poets debate whether metaphor itself perpetuates harm, every image becomes an ethical choice.
@philipmetres.bsky.social's DISPATCHES FROM THE LAND OF ERASURE captures these heated conversations, changing how we approach poems that engage cultural difference.
press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp...
@philipmetres.bsky.social's DISPATCHES FROM THE LAND OF ERASURE captures these heated conversations, changing how we approach poems that engage cultural difference.
press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp...
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An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History
Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.
www.newyorker.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
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we interrupt your timeline to share news that our first ever comic book goes to press on Monday.
👀 Lake Erie League ISSUE #1 debut drops in print and online at #CleanWaterFest.
September 20, 2025.
👀 Lake Erie League ISSUE #1 debut drops in print and online at #CleanWaterFest.
September 20, 2025.
August 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
we interrupt your timeline to share news that our first ever comic book goes to press on Monday.
👀 Lake Erie League ISSUE #1 debut drops in print and online at #CleanWaterFest.
September 20, 2025.
👀 Lake Erie League ISSUE #1 debut drops in print and online at #CleanWaterFest.
September 20, 2025.
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Trump illegally froze 1,800 NIH medical research grants, Congress’ watchdog says ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/06/r...
Trump illegally froze 1,800 NIH medical research grants, Congress’ watchdog says • Ohio Capital Journal
President Donald Trump’s freeze on $8 billion of congressionally appropriated funding to the National Institutes of Health was illegal, the Government Accountability Office reported Tuesday.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Trump illegally froze 1,800 NIH medical research grants, Congress’ watchdog says ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/06/r...
Come to Cleveland
Free registration for our Inkubator Writing Conference is now open!
Sign up for virtual and/or in-person events September 8-13!
#CleInk25
www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-inkub...
Sign up for virtual and/or in-person events September 8-13!
#CleInk25
www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-inkub...
August 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Come to Cleveland
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🎉Announcing the 2025 Inkubator Writing Conference 🎉
#CleInk25 is one of the largest free writing conferences in the country and this year we have made it bigger and better than ever!
Events September 5-14. Registration opens August 1.
inkubator.litcleveland.org
#CleInk25 is one of the largest free writing conferences in the country and this year we have made it bigger and better than ever!
Events September 5-14. Registration opens August 1.
inkubator.litcleveland.org
July 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Spread the word
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Anyone who gives credence to the GOP's debt/deficit rhetoric talk after they voted to explode the deficit to give tax cuts to the rich is a villain or a fool. This is just a war on humanitarian aid and public broadcasting. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Senate Republicans advance Trump bill to cancel $9bn in approved spending
President is looking to clawback money from public media and foreign aid programs to seemingly control US debt
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Anyone who gives credence to the GOP's debt/deficit rhetoric talk after they voted to explode the deficit to give tax cuts to the rich is a villain or a fool. This is just a war on humanitarian aid and public broadcasting. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Late to the game but:
Toni Morrison
George Saunders
Zadie Smith
Italo Calvino
Maggie Nelson
Chris Bachelder
Ali Smith
Donald Barthelme
WG Sebald
Hanif Abdurraqib
Toni Morrison
George Saunders
Zadie Smith
Italo Calvino
Maggie Nelson
Chris Bachelder
Ali Smith
Donald Barthelme
WG Sebald
Hanif Abdurraqib
Why not. 10 writers by whom I've read more than 5 books:
1. Italo Calvino
2. Octavia Butler
3. Kobo Abe
4. Percival Everett
5. Cesar Aira
6. Ursula K. Le Guin
7. Thomas Bernhard
8. Roberto Bolano
9. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. Donald Barthelme
1. Italo Calvino
2. Octavia Butler
3. Kobo Abe
4. Percival Everett
5. Cesar Aira
6. Ursula K. Le Guin
7. Thomas Bernhard
8. Roberto Bolano
9. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. Donald Barthelme
Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books:
1. Cameo Herzog
2. Alan Rouch
3. Marshall France
4. Sebastian Cole
5. Adam Snell
6. Marcus Holland
7. Hans Reiter
8. Harry Gainesborough
9. E.A. Jones
10. Derek Crowe
1. Cameo Herzog
2. Alan Rouch
3. Marshall France
4. Sebastian Cole
5. Adam Snell
6. Marcus Holland
7. Hans Reiter
8. Harry Gainesborough
9. E.A. Jones
10. Derek Crowe
July 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Late to the game but:
Toni Morrison
George Saunders
Zadie Smith
Italo Calvino
Maggie Nelson
Chris Bachelder
Ali Smith
Donald Barthelme
WG Sebald
Hanif Abdurraqib
Toni Morrison
George Saunders
Zadie Smith
Italo Calvino
Maggie Nelson
Chris Bachelder
Ali Smith
Donald Barthelme
WG Sebald
Hanif Abdurraqib
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My cartoon for this weekend’s @theguardian.com books.
July 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
My cartoon for this weekend’s @theguardian.com books.
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David Brooks's latest article contains basic errors that are easily debunked with a 10-second Google (as I did below). I can understand a Substack article misstating e.g. a famous novel's publication year (Ragtime was 75 not 74) but the NYT can't even check? countercraft.substack.com/p/the-foreve...
July 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
David Brooks's latest article contains basic errors that are easily debunked with a 10-second Google (as I did below). I can understand a Substack article misstating e.g. a famous novel's publication year (Ragtime was 75 not 74) but the NYT can't even check? countercraft.substack.com/p/the-foreve...
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Ohio's food banks are strained as it is. Huge cuts to the safety net signed into law in recent days could overwhelm them, the director of a Columbus food bank said last week ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/07/a...
At an Ohio food bank, fears that Republican cuts will overwhelm an overstretched program • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio's food banks are strained as it is. Huge cuts to the safety net signed into law in recent days could overwhelm them, the director of a Columbus food bank said last week.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Ohio's food banks are strained as it is. Huge cuts to the safety net signed into law in recent days could overwhelm them, the director of a Columbus food bank said last week ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/07/a...
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Hard to fathom what ICE under Donald Trump with three times the funding can do.
July 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Hard to fathom what ICE under Donald Trump with three times the funding can do.
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Trump and the Republican Congress literally just took health care and food from struggling families to give a TRILLION dollars to the top 1% over the next decade. They own that now.
Top 1% to Receive $1 Trillion Tax Cut from Trump Megabill Over the Next Decade
The Trump megabill will give the top 1 percent tax cuts totaling $1.02 trillion over the next decade. For comparison, the bill’s cuts to the Medicaid health care program will total $930 billion over t...
itep.org
July 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Trump and the Republican Congress literally just took health care and food from struggling families to give a TRILLION dollars to the top 1% over the next decade. They own that now.
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“They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?” Fiction by Donald Barthelme, from 1974.
“The School,” by Donald Barthelme
Fiction, from 1974: “They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?”
www.newyorker.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?” Fiction by Donald Barthelme, from 1974.
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Tuesday evening reminder: Write the book. Make the zine. Pack the shelves. Fill the world with so many stories they'll never be able to silence us all.
May 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Tuesday evening reminder: Write the book. Make the zine. Pack the shelves. Fill the world with so many stories they'll never be able to silence us all.
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Just 15 years ago Chicago newspapers had robust books coverage written by full-time, salaried staff.
Now they have GPT hallucinations edited by no one.
Now they have GPT hallucinations edited by no one.
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Just 15 years ago Chicago newspapers had robust books coverage written by full-time, salaried staff.
Now they have GPT hallucinations edited by no one.
Now they have GPT hallucinations edited by no one.
Ali Black
Denne Michele Norris @thedennemichele.bsky.social
Hilary Plum
Wednesday
7PM
Loganberry Books
@literarycleveland.bsky.social
Could not be more excited about this lineup. Get tickets now.
www.litcleveland.org/events-progr...
Denne Michele Norris @thedennemichele.bsky.social
Hilary Plum
Wednesday
7PM
Loganberry Books
@literarycleveland.bsky.social
Could not be more excited about this lineup. Get tickets now.
www.litcleveland.org/events-progr...
May 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Ali Black
Denne Michele Norris @thedennemichele.bsky.social
Hilary Plum
Wednesday
7PM
Loganberry Books
@literarycleveland.bsky.social
Could not be more excited about this lineup. Get tickets now.
www.litcleveland.org/events-progr...
Denne Michele Norris @thedennemichele.bsky.social
Hilary Plum
Wednesday
7PM
Loganberry Books
@literarycleveland.bsky.social
Could not be more excited about this lineup. Get tickets now.
www.litcleveland.org/events-progr...
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope