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Andy Oler

@andyoler.bsky.social

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Parent, English prof, Hoosier. He/him. Departments Editor, New Territory, #LiteraryLandscapes. Old-Fashioned Modernism (LSU 2019), Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell (MSU 2023) & Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest (UIP 2025).

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Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks—it's been amazing to work on!

Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be at Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest this weekend with @dawnburns.bsky.social @leahamilne.bsky.social @rosstangedal.bsky.social courtesy of @indianahumanities.bsky.social—come see us! indianahumanities.org/program/proof/

Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest

Indiana Humanities will celebrate the power of writing that grows in the Midwest during Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest on Oct. 10 and 11, offering a full schedule for writers, readers, and lovers of all th...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

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Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 6d

Rolling deadline!

Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 6d

That's right—#LiteraryLandscapes is a volunteer operation, editing and writing included. I would love to develop the resources to pay writers, but that hasn't materialized yet.

Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 7d

Do you know either of them well enough to suggest they contribute? If not, send me their contact info and I'll reach out!

Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 7d

Not yet! I had someone who planned to, but I believe the project fell by the wayside.

Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 7d

Check out this list of potential authors and sites (or go off book!) newterritorymag.com/midwest/lite...

Literary Landscapes - The New Territory Magazine

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We seek brief essays (400-600 words), accompanied by a photo. See a list of authors we're seeking, or pitch your own.

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Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 7d

I've edited a couple fun essays for the next volume of #LiteraryLandscapes, and I'm looking for more! If you have a favorite Midwestern (ish) author and have visited one of their places, pitch me! newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...

Literary Landscapes - The New Territory Magazine

A project about the ways that Midwestern literature is relevant today—how we engage with the stories we tell about our region.

newterritorymag.com

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Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 11d

Check out these @wittybanterism.bsky.social prints that my brother commissioned of my parents’ old house and barn

Framed prints of psychedelic artwork of barn and farmhouse

Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 14d

The crab mascot is walking around, claws up, waving at people

Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 14d

It’s open house at the high school tonight, and at the entrance cheerleaders are waving people in while the jazz band plays. Couldn’t be more charming?

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Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations!!

Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · Sep 4

I would attend that panel!

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Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm on the program committee this year, and befitting our partnership with the @miamiuniversity.bsky.social Humanities Center, I'd love to see a broad range of Midwest Studies presentations at this year's conference!

Midwestern History Association @midwesternhistory.bsky.social · Aug 12

🚨CFP🚨 The Midwestern History Association invites proposals for the 12th Midwestern History Conference, Thursday, April 30–Friday, May 1, 2026, hosted by Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in conjunction with its annual Altman Symposium in the humanities. Submission Deadline: Monday, December 8, 2025.

2026 Conference — Midwestern History Association

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Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sitting in a coffee shop, preparing to teach The Green Corn Rebellion for the first time, and I had forgotten that it kicks off with such a banger

Opening paragraphs of The Green Corn Rebellion, ending with “These little dead spells were long enough with him that you noticed them. Everybody has little flickers of death, but with an old person the blank spaces are long and apparent.”

Book cover of The Green Corn Rebellion and a latte in the foreground, with cars, sunshine, and palm trees behind

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · Aug 28

This article on Disney and the collapse of the middle class is an absolute banger
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · Aug 24

How about this one? www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

The Program Era — Harvard University Press

In The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education an...

www.hup.harvard.edu

Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · Aug 24

This one? cup.columbia.edu/book/big-fic...

Big Fiction | Columbia University Press

Shortlisted, 2024 SHARP Book History Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and PublishingIn the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason E... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

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Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · Aug 19

Preorder here! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Lingering Inland

www.press.uillinois.edu

Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · Aug 19

Advanced Reader Copy! Look at this beauty

Book cover of Lingering Inland: A Literary Tournof the Midwest, with an advanced reader edition sticker, held by a man’s left hand

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Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · Aug 15

Yes! Also, I'm hopeful Al Johnson's will stock the book!

Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · Aug 6

Saw my favorite truck in the wild this morning

Tanker truck passing through intersection. Tank advertises Woody’s Septic Tank Service and is decorated with a rainbow spraying out of a hose.

Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · Jul 11

I was hoping to someone would write about a place from/like the home in Paradise, but I couldn’t find manage to find the person who had read the book and visited or lived near a place like that