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A Newsletter from Joanne Merriam

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Recent publication: “Easy Bake” at The Baltimore Review.

Recently on my website: I’ve started a monthly round-up of interesting, useful, hilarious, or explanatory links. I’ll do a new one each month and update regularly, so it’s worth bookmarking and revisiting. So far this month: a bunch of news, Zillow toilets, poisoning AI slop with .ass titles, and how to make edible geodes.

Currently reading: Helene Tursten’s An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Soho Press), kind of the opposite of Miss Marple.

Recommended reading: “Love Was This Alone” by David Lerner Schwartz (New Orleans Review), a well-observed short.

A civic reminder: Canadians have until Monday afternoon to register for Liberal party membership to vote in the leadership race, if that’s something you want to do. If you’re an American abroad, today is a great day to submit your FPCA to register to vote for the calendar year, there or at VoteFromAbroad.org.

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Thanks for being here with me, friend!