Cornelius Fortune

Cornelius Fortune is an award-winning journalist, playwright, poet and educator.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In a future where everyone has access to the same A.I. assistants, “it’s possible that the ability to write original and interesting sentences will become only more important,” @huahsu writes.
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[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word. https://t.co/PkM69V3uPW

[Hour Detroit Magazine @Hour_Detroit]

Dancing Machine: From the Streets of Inkster to ‘Cutting Up’ the World Stage https://t.co/rtMq8RvWJj

[JSTOR Daily @JSTOR_Daily]

What can the Superman mythos, the creed, the story of being simultaneously extraordinary *and* ordinary say about the experience of growing up Black in America? https://t.co/Ub4GWEKmaQ #Superman

[Cornelius Fortune @Arlingtonscribe]

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@marcusharmes has edited an extraordinary collection. My contribution, “What you gonna do when they come for you?”: Cops and the Urgency of Black Flight in Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over,” examines the Cops TV show in conversation with @anwandu’s work.

[Garance Burke @garanceburke]

A strategic project I envisioned 4 years ago, to help journalists cover the real-world impacts of artificial intelligence tools, is now a new chapter in @APStylebook. My hope: it helps more people write about these technologies accurately + in depth.

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The Woman Shaping a Generation of Black Thought https://t.co/9I09yqODxQ

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How https://t.co/YepJE2zJKr Survives—and Thrives—in Amazon’s World https://t.co/idSZX637En via @wired

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The End of the English Major https://t.co/X5A6BmPi1e via @NewYorker

[Library of America @LibraryAmerica]

Zora Neale Hurston was born 132 years ago today, in 1891. Her Mules and Men (1935) was the first book of Black American folklore by a Black American; of her masterpiece Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Alice Walker wrote, “There is no book more important to me than this one.”

[T. S. Eliot Foundation @eliotfoundation]

Misreading Ulysses - The 2022 T. S. Eliot Lecture by Sally Rooney, delivered @AbbeyTheatre in Dublin on 23 October 2022.

@parisreview @FaberBooks

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[Boston Review @BostonReview]

“If modernism was carried to some prominence by the emerging discipline of English, what does it mean that the humanities are being eroded precipitously in universities today?”

@johannawinant on the centenary of modernism’s annus mirabilis: https://t.co/TZN1Fa6aDn

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Lamont Dozier, Writer of Numerous Motown Hits, Dies at 81 https://t.co/gPHKalK4GW

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Inside the Push to Diversify the Book Business https://t.co/KPtQWALo46

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https://t.co/9vaTQzXvnw via @wired

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Anton Chekhov’s Beloved Summer Home in Ukraine is Under Threat https://t.co/1uN8YXHCbl via @lithub

[JSTOR Daily @JSTOR_Daily]

Donald Goines wasn’t merely a purveyor of ghetto life, he explored and examined the plight of pimps, prostitutes, and broken families, penning crime fiction that happened to be about Black people, living Black lives. https://t.co/HxzARNfdls

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https://t.co/jN8ExN3JOO via @wired

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Joan Didion and the Opposite of Magical Thinking https://t.co/dzBePCz5Fp via @NewYorker

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Dubliners https://t.co/h4Z8caZCGx via @nybooks