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Diversity is not a fair-weather pursuit

March 31, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

Today is Trans Day of Visibility, and Thursday, April 3 marks the inaugural We Need Diverse Books Day. At a time when the mere concept of diversity itself is under assault by the full force of the United States government, now is not the time to get weak-kneed about affirming our values and standing up […]

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A.I. has improved a lot. I’m still skeptical it’s useful for writing and editing

March 24, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

I spent a fair chunk of my weekend playing around with various A.I. tools, and, for the first time ever, I came away genuinely impressed by some of its outputs. I’m as surprised as you are. If your first impression of ChatGPT calcified a year or two ago as you watched it spew out weird […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: A.I., ChatGPT, Google

The best of 2024!

December 16, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

I can’t believe the year is already winding down, but the calendar…it does not lie! As I did last year, I thought I’d round up some of my favorite things in 2024. Hopefully you can find a post you missed or musical artist you enjoy! The best of the blog 2024 Most viewed posts published […]

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Are kids these days reading like they used to?

December 11, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

With social media fragmenting, I’m bringing back my old “You Tell Me” Wednesday discussions to try to get good old fashioned blog conversations going. If you’re reading in a feed reader or via email, please click through to the post to leave a public comment and join the discussion! There has been quite a lot of panic […]

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How are we feeling out there?

November 6, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

I’ll likely be returning to the events of the past week (or is it the past decade? or the last five hundred years) in a later post, but for now, I’m full of thankfulness for my communities, including this one. How are you feeling, and what’s on your mind as this massive chunk of our […]

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Can we really separate art and the artist?

July 22, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

News emerged in the past few weeks that distressed a lot of literary fans. As I detailed in last week’s entry of This Week in Books: The late Alice Munro’s daughter Andrea Robin Skinner published an essay about how Munro stood by Skinner’s stepfather even after he admitted to sexually abusing Skinner. Nearly as distressing as […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Alice Munro, Chinatown, Joyce Carol Oates

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