Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social

Novel, PLANES, out now. Also magazine writing.

essays on songs by me + pals:

[Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social @apcbapcb]

Just about 11 years after I started writing it, PLANES is out today!

According to the New York Times it "captures our shared human ache with stunning accuracy." 🫠

https://t.co/jACDkxFa00

[Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social @apcbapcb]

Once on Sanibel Island, Florida, I read a short story by Ben Lerner set on Sanibel Island, Florida, and the next day I almost smashed into a guy with my bike on one of the island's famous bike paths and that guy was Ben Lerner.

[Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social @apcbapcb]

if you don't know what 'prosciutto money' is ... I'm sorry, you're already lost.

[Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social @apcbapcb]

You can also work the other end. Like maybe the idea you pitched didn't really work out. But still, at $14/w (my average), if you just file a paragraph or two then you'll still make some prosciutto money.

[hanson o'haver @HansonOHaver]

my one tip for the “how can young writers make more money?” discourse is to note that editors will often pay a bonus if you go long. So like, my Gawker contract was $8/word, but I’d often file 2–3 times as many words as initially agreed upon, and they’d bump me up to $10/word

[hanson o'haver @HansonOHaver]

my one tip for the “how can young writers make more money?” discourse is to note that editors will often pay a bonus if you go long. So like, my Gawker contract was $8/word, but I’d often file 2–3 times as many words as initially agreed upon, and they’d bump me up to $10/word

[Dr Paul Laidler @palaidler]

Best bit: "writing was a gift humanity had made for itself, a way for us to know ourselves and each other across space and time." https://t.co/ZYa2NK0UW0

[Longreads @Longreads]

"I couldn’t wipe chatbots from their world, any more than I can wipe phones. All I could do was decide how much I would steer students toward them and how much I would nudge them toward other experiences." —Peter C Baker for The Guardian #longreads

https://t.co/qJ5xdwcY9f

[Okapi @azOnzR34EE79195]

夜に英文音読練習スペースやりますので一緒に練習してくださる方募集中🙂

https://t.co/SrON8lWGp9

[Elena Saavedra Buckley @elenasb_]

Smart piece by @apcbapcb on our era of "blank space" conspiracy theories, in which the lack of evidence is the evidence https://t.co/XsZJu0G1GE

[Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social @apcbapcb]

Poetically shitty AI-written recap of my piece

[Nordic AI Institute @nordicinst]

The Guardian: Cheating machine or mighty aid? My trainee-teacher nerves crash when AI wanders into class—free chats craft prose, but can they shape thinking or simply caffeinate panic? Europe’s AI rush meets Swedish classrooms: who guides the handwriting… https://t.co/koqGz1a3sw

[Jane Fleming @fleming77]

I was a newcomer, negotiating all of usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack
>>Guardian long read worth the time
https://t.co/EC9DLZr2fn

[Gabriel Baker @gabrieljbaker]

My brother wrote a wonderful piece about AI in the classroom for the Guardian. I encourage you to read it:

https://t.co/uYsvkS9zxD

[Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social @apcbapcb]

omg they spelled "COMMUNIST MANIFESTO" wrong on the new Sally Rooney cover

[Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social @apcbapcb]

I am on the brink of opposing the term 'The Epstein Files.' It makes it sound like there's a box somewhere and they're all in it. Or a big filing cabinet. Or thumb drive or whatever. And in some way this is peak aesthetic liberalism. Similar slip to 'the Epstein client list.'

[Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social @apcbapcb]

Can't quite tell if this was written by AI, or by an AI propagandist. Piece is not about "innovation," it's about "fascist spectacles."

chatGPT, please generate an image of Porco Rosso saying "this is one reason I quit* twitter."

*basically quit, lol

[AI Capital @aicapital_io]

AI-crafted animations now shape White House deportation messaging, pushing political storytelling into an unprecedented digital frontier. When policy meets pixels, innovation unfolds. https://t.co/4WaEA9Tc9T #AIinPolitics

[Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social @apcbapcb]

CAkedaddy THINE Geeghee Prince is reading ... the question is ... why aren't you?

[Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1]

Joan Didion: "When I realized I had been added to the Secretary of Defense's group chat, I felt that familiar vertiginous unreality that signals an impending migraine. I had to, immediately (and somewhat piteously, I realized) take to my bed."

[Jeremy Gordon @jeremypgordon]

Chicagoans — it's time for the homecoming event. I'll be at City Lit this Thursday, March 20, for the ol' "in conversation with" ft. @apcbapcb

[Jeremy Gordon @jeremypgordon]

I'll be "on tour" for SEE FRIENDSHIP in March and April, hitting up San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Providence with the help of @jaycaspiankang, @ruthmadievsky, @apcbapcb, and @alexlaughs. We will also be screening the film SUPERBAD at Nitehawk

[Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social @apcbapcb]

@alex_shephard justice for heavy ham

[Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social @apcbapcb]

wow 'heavy ham' was changed to 'slabs of ham.'

'Rain fell hard like slabs of ham.'

think I preferred heavy ham tbh.

[Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social @apcbapcb]

rain fell hard like heavy ham?