The wildest thing about reading a biography of Kurt Vonnegut (or any mid-to-late-mid 20th century writer) is reading about how much writers got paid in those days. You used to be able to raise a family writing short stories!

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I would feel more clever pointing out how the point of this wave of AI is to build an ethical analog to slavery if we didn't have story after story after story of "AI successes" being revealed to be mechanical turk frauds relying on secret underpaid workers in affordably poverty-stricken countries.

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Today they announce this year's Le Guin Prize for Fiction, and we are rooting for CALL AND RESPONSE by Christopher Caldwell amidst a list of luminous finalists. It seems fitting to also honor our previous finalist, which was @yarntheory.bsky.social's NORTH CONTINENT RIBBON.

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look, i just want to talk book worm shit with my friends! i don’t remember a thing we said but it was certainly unhinged

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Congratulations to Pip Adam, recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Audition!

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