Andy Oler

Not really here anymore. Find me on Bluesky. Departments Editor, @newterritorymag. Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity & Midwestern Lit (@lsupress, 2019)

[Andy Oler @andy_oler]

For this #LiteraryLandscapes essay, I appreciate how Monique focuses less on Morrison's fiction and thinks more about her as a public speaker and symbol.

[The New Territory @newterritorymag]

Toni Morrison & Euclid Ave mural—on Black women lifting up each other, bc as Morrison said, “the function of freedom is to free someone else.” #LiteraryLandscapes by @MoniqueWingard. #ToniMorrison #Cleveland #Ohio #ClevelandIstheReason @TheCLE @GlenInfante https://t.co/Xv7hWGWNWx

[Andy Oler @andy_oler]

One of the super cool things about this essay was how Alice takes the experience of reading and thinking about Morrison and connects it to her own life, an ocean away.

[The New Territory @newterritorymag]

Toni Morrison & Chesapeake Bay—driving along the Bay, trying to experience the place concretely, seeing the links between past and present, proximate and distant. #LiteraryLandscapes by Alice Sundman. #ToniMorrison #ChesapeakeBay #Maryland @thisisFINLAND https://t.co/zng0ETgxMT

[Andy Oler @andy_oler]

Trivius takes such a cool, personal angle on Morrison—it's a great example of an approach that not everyone has access to!

[The New Territory @newterritorymag]

Toni Morrison & West Point—speaking to Plebes, Morrison makes “the auditorium, alive with the resonance of storytelling,” a space of racial belonging. #LiteraryLandscapes by @TriviusC. #ToniMorrison #Home #ThayerHall #WestPoint #NewYork https://t.co/QnZudCt9LY

[Andy Oler @andy_oler]

I've never had two essays in the same volume deal with locations in the same city, but I love how Ashley's essay about Lakeview Park plays off Tara's reflections on Morrison's childhood home.

[The New Territory @newterritorymag]

Toni Morrison & Lakeview Park—exploring the traumas experienced by young Black girls in #TheBluestEye and reclaiming the park as a space for healing. #LiteraryLandscapes by Ashley Burge. #ToniMorrison #LakeviewPark #Lorain #Ohio @LCGov https://t.co/zY8eP22ycd

[Andy Oler @andy_oler]

@Gasconader Thanks, @Gasconader—the contributors came up with some great and surprising places for this one!

[Andy Oler @andy_oler]

Check out Tara Conley's essay on #Morrison. I feel like I've been sitting on this one so long, and I'm delighted to finally put it out in the world!

[The New Territory @newterritorymag]

Toni Morrison’s childhood home—Black American resilience amidst the shared, cruel landscapes of white supremacy in Lorain, OH. #LiteraryLandscapes by @taralconley. #ToniMorrison #Lorain #Ohio https://t.co/jw0OLizFuL

[Andy Oler @andy_oler]

New #LiteraryLandscapes, all on Toni Morrison—enjoy!

[The New Territory @newterritorymag]

Check out #LiteraryLandscapes Vol. 15—which is entirely on the work of #ToniMorrison! Essays by Tara Conley, Trivius Caldwell, Ashley Burge, Monique Wingard, and Alice Sundman. Enjoy! https://t.co/EZdqxXcm6V

[Andy Oler @andy_oler]

Evidence that @harvilla understands his demographic at the deepest level: middle-aged Midwestern man listening to a podcast about 90s music while cleaning up from a flood

[The New Territory @newterritorymag]

Thanks for this write-up from @PeteDulin, whose #LiteraryLandscapes essay was one of our nominations for Best of the Net by @SundressPub! https://t.co/nZbMbiCv97

[Andy Oler @andy_oler]

Absolutely unsurprising—yet still damning—to read the stats about Florida university professors fleeing the state that Dew cites in this column. It doesn't have to be this way. https://t.co/1PPJgU8jRS

[The New Territory @newterritorymag]

Congratulations to Pete Dulin and Rosemary Hope, whose #LiteraryLandscapes essays were our 2024 nominees for Best of the Net! Thanks to Humanities Kansas and High Plains Public Radio for helping bring "Literary Landscapes in Kansas" to life!

[Andy Oler @andy_oler]

Thanks to Bitter Southerner for publicizing resistance to FL censorship efforts: “School board elections are winnable,” Moricz said. “The margins are winnable. We’re able to show students that if one marching band voted, they could flip a school board.” https://t.co/c5EA70WVj6

[Andy Oler @andy_oler]

@fewstein U Illinois Press has some great regional lists, including 3 Fields, their trade imprint

[Andy Oler @andy_oler]

@fewstein In the Midwest I’d say Sujey Vega’s Latino Heartland, Adam Ochonicky’s The American Midwest in Film and Literature, and (at the risk of self-promotion) my own: Old-Fashioned Modernism

[Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski]

More and more people—in tech companies, consultancies, regulators, universities, among others—are saying this and proving it to be true: AI does very bad work and creates more labor for humans. https://t.co/1D3u3UXo1s

[Craig Pittman @craigtimes]

Op-ed: #Florida’s draconian book banning law confusing, poorly worded https://t.co/0FCjmv07vM

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

The 8 levels of Midwestern Anger

8. “Woah woah woah”
7. “Hold your horses”
6. “Jeez Louise”
5. “No sh*t Sherlock”
4. “For Pete’s sake”
3. “Well, now wait a minute”
2. “For crying out loud”
1. “Listen here pal”

[Andy Oler @andy_oler]

@JKropf The next couple issues are pretty well set, but I’m always open to receive pitches!

[Andy Oler @andy_oler]

I'm still looking for Here pieces -- send me a pitch!

[The New Territory @newterritorymag]

Have an idea for a short personal essay grounded in a specific place? Pitch section editor @andy_oler at [email protected]!

[Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung]

Faculty are not "better" than other state employees. But they are different. They are hired for their ideas, not to reflect the views of the state. Ban them from expressing those ideas, and you no longer have a university; you have a propaganda factory. https://t.co/DdM8eZeGOh

[Andy Oler @andy_oler]

The differences between Vance and Walz couldn’t demonstrate this tipping point more clearly

[Andy Oler @andy_oler]

With all the stories and commentary about Walz’s Midwestern masculinity, I’m feeling pretty good about the conclusion to Old-Fashioned Modernism