Today, a lot of old Black men will be rooting for the KC Chiefs.

It has nothing to do with Taylor Swift, a Black QB or Travis Kelce's pioneering haircut. It's about HBCUs, Black history, a kidnapping & white affirmative action.

How Racism Invented the Super Bowl

A thread.

A lot of what I have learned about how to be a decent person doing work in the mountains I learned from Gurney Norman. We are gathering to give Gurney a party November 17 & 18 in Lexington. Yall ought to come. Its free and open to the public. More info: english.as.uky.edu/gurney-fest

It was a good day. Thx to Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. @mandifugate and all the rest. Willie’s book, like his work on behalf of lgbtq+ youth, is super good. Buy a few.

We went to the Queer Literary Hoedown at the Carnegie Center yesterday. Excellent writers read. Tyler Childers new music video created by Silas House 📘, Jason Howard and others played. It was great. We have us a good poet laureate in KY. A good governor, too.

What Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. said

Reading this rn. Excellent. Buy buy buy.

I am deeply flawed and can provide documentation/references upon request. This kind of expectation raising leaves me very uncomfortable. But thank you, Leah Hampton, for the kind words.

I love this Twitterthing a lot. Thanks shit Shit Nonprofits Say

Thanks to UnderMain for publishing and Wes Browne for writing this very detailed piece about my life. And thanks to all who said nice things in it.

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Heartbreaking and beautiful. Just completely heartbreaking and beautiful. By ⁦.⁩ via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2022/11/22/opi…

There are a lot of indigenous organizations doing great work in this thread.

I reckon most of us are writing for the same audience as JD Vance, but somehow some voices get amplified more than others. Or maybe we are not saying the things the amplifiers care to pick up. Thx to Margaret Renkl for her amplifying today.

Keeping good company. Thx to Neema Avashia and Gillian Berchowitz for pointing out this write-up out. Thx to Margaret Renkl for penning it. Remember those university presses when stuffing yr stockings.

Earlier this year, I took a job as a narrative designer at a video game company. Here are three things I learned while writing video games that made me a better novelist 🧵 (1/14)

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This aggression will not stand.