Will be at AWP Thursday and Friday and would love to (re)connect. Let me be your local companion before things get go into overdrive during the weekend.

Well again, plenty of reasons, but this baby’s going out to you later this spring anyway, why suffer the middleman of google gemini scrubbing my work in transit

Agents reading this should absolutely ask me about the novel draft I just finished. It’s got Baltimore shit in it and it’s good. Why miss out on this opportunity?

Why miss out on this opportunity? Well plenty of reasons, actually, but I don’t come on social media much anymore and I miss people

Will be at AWP Thursday and Friday and would love to (re)connect. Let me be your local companion before things get go into overdrive during the weekend.

People debate whether or not there’s a great millenial novel, but how can there be one when so many classics begin with a character haphazardly buying a new house in a new town for “reasons” and “just because”

Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!

A Thread.

One of the things that led us to this shitty political moment is the obsession with intent.

Government’s case against Abrego Garcia is based on PG County Cop who was on the SA’s do not call list The Maryland cop who first linked Kilmar Abrego Garcia to alleged gang activity in 2019 was placed on a “do not call” list published by Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy in 2021 —...

I wrote for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social about how the government’s entire case against Abrego Garcia rests on the assertion of a disgraced cop who could not even testify in state court and was suspended 5 days after encounter with Abrego Garcia. baltimorebeat.com/governments-...

This Isn't Over Yet or Why We Must Fight for the American Cultural Sector

“Last year, the arts and culture sector contributed "a whopping $1.102 trillion" to the country's Gross Domestic Product, more, in fact, than the transportation and agricultural industries…So, again, why is the industry under attack?”

jeraldcrook.substack.com/p/this-isnt-...

FORTY remain active. Almost FIFTEEN HUNDRED canceled.

This is an image of issue 59 of Baltimore Beat. It is a photo of a man holding an American flag. Above the man’s head is the word “uprising” in red text.

Issue 59 of Baltimore Beat is live. April 19 will mark 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death. This issue looks back on that tumultuous time in our city’s history. Our cover was designed by Wide Angle Youth Media.

my hot take is that if you lost your job to government cuts, you’re allowed to complain about losing your livelihood, full stop, no qualifiers about “and even more, the important work.”

One of the reasons @baltimorebeat.bsky.social is so essential is because it provides features like the multi-page list of community resources for food, rent, health, etc. Critical community information you won’t routinely see in other media outlets serving the City.

The "Book Résumés" initiative from @uabookbans.bsky.social, @slj.com, and publishing partners is a powerful tool to combat censorship.

This free resource includes reviews, accolades, and more info on frequently-challenged books. New titles added regularly! buff.ly/dr3btyt

Children’s shoes are lined up on the street in Washington, DC, representing the 17,400+ Palestinian children killed by Israel

This is just to say friends, if you have a space or platform to talk about NEH, IMLS, and other such agency cuts, my job is subject to them and as of yet I have no gag order

Happy Friday

DOGE Demands Deep Cuts at Humanities Endowment The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums, scholarship and historical sites, could see grants curtailed and staffing slashed by up to 80 percent.

I’ve worked on something close to 60 grants in various capacities as a Library of Congress task force director. And if we lose NEH that pretty much ends most research and preservation infrastructure, with no backup plan.

How are artists/art workers/museums/galleries mobilizing against Trump? My DMs are open for tips about shows, guerrilla actions, performances, posters, billboards, letters, boycotts, you name it — for a story. Pls share.

Its no secret we as a society place too little monetary value on the humanities. And yet, these spaces and activities persist. They give colour to the places we call home. Make it a place worth living. So yes, these agencies — NEH, NEA, IMLS, is a lifeline in many ways /3

dont just go to professors to do a study.

They keep local museum tickets $10 instead of $50, they pay that kooky neighborhood walking tour, they support that summer music festival.

Its cutting off the reservoir at the head of a very long spout that ends up right in your community. /2

During COVID everyone realized the med industry had its limits, and how agencies like the CDC and NIH or government injection of funds were vital to incentivize pharma and expand public health and…survive.

The NEH is that also. We don’t survive without culture and history, and these grants… /1

URGENT: Save the NEH

I just wrote to all of my congressional representatives to plead them to support the NEH, for everyone, for public history, for scholarship, for teaching, for all of it. I used this widget: very easy, it has a template, and automatically looks up the emails of your representatives. p2a.co/DdtlGIT

URGENT: Save the NEH

Save the NEH, my job, and the jobs of thousands of culture workers who are supported by NEH funds and programming.

This link takes you to a SUPER simple form to email all of your reps.

It took me 15 seconds and I got email replies from my congressman and both senators.

p2a.co/DdtlGIT

Explore >> Federal Depository Library Program Web Archive >> National Endowment for the Humanities Collected by: Federal Depository Library Program Web Archive Archived since: Mar, 2015 Description: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency created in 1965. It is one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States. Subject: Government - US Federal, Arts & Humanities Creator: National Endowment for the Humanities Collector: U.S. Government Publishing Ofüce Narrow Your Results Sites for this collection are listed below. Narrow your results at left, or enter a search query below to find a site, specific URL or to search the text of archived webpages. There are no further ways to narrow your results. Enter search terms here Search Clear Sites Search Page Text Page 1 of 1 (28 Total Results) Sort By: Title (A-Z) Title (Z-A) URL (A-Z) URL (Z-A) URL: http://live.neh.gov/ Captured 6 times between September 21, 2016 and December 21, 2018 URL: https://50.neh.gov/ Captured 10 times between December 17, 2015 and December 08, 2017 URL: https://apps.neh.gov/ Captured 4 times between June 24, 2024 and November 25, 2024 URL: https://createdequal.neh.gov/ Captured 23 times between June 26, 2015 and May 29, 2024 URL: https://diggingintodata.org/ Captured 21 times between June 26, 2015 and May 29, 2024 Videos: 6 Videos Captured URL: https://edsitement.neh.gov/

3/3 FDLP is indexed for full-text search, unlike the regular Wayback Machine. Pages look more like a facsimile than the regular Wayback. Includes full video.

Archive-It link for:
The National Endowment for the Humanities
Federal Depository Library Program Web Archive
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hearing that state book festivals funded by National Endowment Humanities are being shuttered — so, no Southern Festival of Books this year...

the Kentucky Book Festival is still on, as its funding comes from sponsors & donors, but the Kentucky Humanities Council is readjusting its budget.