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Am I Nostalgic for the 90s Because They Were Legitimately Great or Only Because I’m Middle-Aged?: The Kimberly Hirsh Story
Ravynn K. Stringfield writes about the love evident in the rigor of Haniq Abdurraqib’s book, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest and what she writes is beautiful.
Finished reading: Oathbound by Tracy Deonn 📚
Ugh so good, Tracy Deonn is so wonderful and I hate that I have to wait a long time for the next book in the Legendborn Cycle and I also know writers need time to do their work. Probably will do a full series re-read ahead of the next.
Finished reading: Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe 📚
A gorgeous picture book biography.
I think one of the reasons I loved the early web is that you could exist on it purely as words. As a person whose body has often felt like a hindrance, it felt like magic to be able to communicate in the way that most made sense to me.
📚💬 " ChatGPT has access to every poem ever written, at least in theory, but it can’t feel anything when it generates a poem from a prompt. Is this still poetry?" John Warner, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
🔖 Here’s a project IMLS supported that you won’t see in partisan social media posts about where that 0.003% of the federal budget went: Libraries’ Roles in Disaster Preparedness and Recovery by Denise Lyons (Library Journal)
📚💬 “It’s a near certainty that generative AI can have some positive effects on human writing, but for that to be true, we must hold fast to what makes writing meaningful to humans.” John Warner, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI