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From 1977 to 1979,
June Jordan and Toni Morrison were both a part of "The Sisterhood",
a group of Black women writers who met in a New York City apartment to eat and drink together while discussing liberation.
Whether addressing genocide, imperialism or the American literary establishment,
the writers in the group,
which included Alice Walker and Ntozake Shange,
saw their work as a means to make interventions against dominant narratives of colon…

Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship
In this reprint of "Peril" and "Racism and Fascism," Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism's reach.

#WritersCoffeeClub 24 Nov
How do you make sure a reader has room to process and absorb ideas?
I think it's perfectly OK to include things in stories that 90% of readers won't pick up on -- because the delight of discovery for the 10% of readers who do is worth it, I think.
In some of my writing I use a lot of subtle intertextual references -- which readers who kn…

Las Vegas writer sends ashamed message on Raiders after 24-10 loss to Browns in Shedeur Sanders’ debut https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/las-veg…

Rams or Seahawks? The Athletic's beat writers break down the NFC Championship Game https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6994610/2026/01/24/rams-seahawks-nfc-championship-game-preview/

Would you use AI to break writer’s block? We asked 5 experts https://theconversation.com/would-you-use-ai-to-break-writers-block-we-asked-5-experts-271627

Would you use AI to break writer’s block? We asked 5 experts
A publishing giant believes AI can help break writers’ block. We asked 5 creative writing experts if they’d use it that way – and the range of results surprised us.

Migrating a large accretion of complex blog post content between platforms is a draining & thoroughly demoralising experience. It turns out that we, as web developers, are capable of creating byzantine platforms which give diligent blog writers the ability to create hours and hours of unrewarding work that is so cryptically & diversely broken that no script can be written to make sense of the mess.
Enjoy your holidays if you're in a cultural context where that sort of thin…

#WritersCoffeeClub Dec
15. What’s a non-literary artistic tradition which inspires you?
16. Do you have one format you write in, or many?
17. Give a shout-out to a resource or site you think more writers should know.
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15. Just one?
Stand-up comedy as a successor of court jesters.
Not the most important, merely the first that comes to mind.
16. I hav…

Ukrainian writer and translator Andriy Lyubka mobilizes to join Armed Forces: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/20/ukrainian-writer-and-translator-andriy.html

dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia

NYT reporter John Carreyrou and five other writers sue xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Perplexity, accusing them of pirating their books to train AI (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/n