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Cornelius Fortune

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Cornelius Fortune is an award-winning journalist, playwright, poet and educator.

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@NewYorker1 Jul 2025
In a future where everyone has access to the same A.I. assistants, “it’s possible that the ability to write original and interesting sentences will become only more important,” @huahsu writes. nyer.cm/yefAQ8t
What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?

What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

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@NewYorker18 Jun 2025
Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word. nyer.cm/zjkNVph
What’s Happening to Reading?

What’s Happening to Reading?

For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.

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Dancing Machine: From the Streets of Inkster to ‘Cutting Up’ the World Stage hourdetroit.com/film-tv/danc…
Inkster's Funkateer Dancers Get Golden Buzzer on AGT

Inkster's Funkateer Dancers Get Golden Buzzer on AGT

The Funkateer Dancers returned to form on NBC’s America’s Got Talent.

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JSTOR Daily@JSTOR_Daily6 Dec 2023
What can the Superman mythos, the creed, the story of being simultaneously extraordinary *and* ordinary say about the experience of growing up Black in America? bit.ly/47THJea #Superman
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mcfarlandbooks.com/product/w…… @marcusharmes has edited an extraordinary collection. My contribution, “What you gonna do when they come for you?”: Cops and the Urgency of Black Flight in Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over,” examines the Cops TV show in conversation with @anwandu’s work.
Watching the Cops - McFarland

Watching the Cops - McFarland

Watching the Cops Essays on Police and Policing in 21st Century Film and Television Edited by Marcus K. Harmes, Barbara Harmes and Meredith A. Harmes 978-1-4766-8934-0 978-1-4766-4973-3

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Garance Burke@garanceburke17 Aug 2023
A strategic project I envisioned 4 years ago, to help journalists cover the real-world impacts of artificial intelligence tools, is now a new chapter in @APStylebook. My hope: it helps more people write about these technologies accurately + in depth.
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AI guidance, terms added to AP Stylebook. See our blog: apne.ws/11PLTVW
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The Woman Shaping a Generation of Black Thought nytimes.com/2023/04/26/magaz…
The Woman Shaping a Generation of Black Thought (Published 2023)

The Woman Shaping a Generation of Black Thought (Published 2023)

Christina Sharpe is expanding the vocabulary of life in slavery’s long shadow — peeling back the meaning of familiar words and resurrecting neglected history.

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How Bookshop.org Survives—and Thrives—in Amazon’s World wired.com/story/books-booksh… via @wired
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The End of the English Major newyorker.com/magazine/2023/… via @NewYorker
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Zora Neale Hurston was born 132 years ago today, in 1891. Her Mules and Men (1935) was the first book of Black American folklore by a Black American; of her masterpiece Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Alice Walker wrote, “There is no book more important to me than this one.”
Zora Neale Hurston, 1938. (Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress; public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

ALT Zora Neale Hurston, 1938. (Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress; public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

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Misreading Ulysses - The 2022 T. S. Eliot Lecture by Sally Rooney, delivered @AbbeyTheatre in Dublin on 23 October 2022. @parisreview @FaberBooks theparisreview.org/blog/2022…
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@BostonReview7 Dec 2022
“If modernism was carried to some prominence by the emerging discipline of English, what does it mean that the humanities are being eroded precipitously in universities today?” @johannawinant on the centenary of modernism’s annus mirabilis: bostonreview.net/articles/a-…
A Century of Serious Difficulty

A Century of Serious Difficulty

Reflecting on three monumental works of modernism a hundred years on.

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Lamont Dozier, Writer of Numerous Motown Hits, Dies at 81 nytimes.com/2022/08/09/arts/…

Lamont Dozier, Writer of Numerous Motown Hits, Dies at 81 (Published 2022)

With the brothers Brian and Eddie Holland, Mr. Dozier wrote dozens of singles that reached the pop or R&B charts, including “You Can’t Hurry Love,” by the Supremes.

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Inside the Push to Diversify the Book Business nytimes.com/2022/06/22/magaz…
Inside the Push to Diversify the Book Business (Published 2022)

Inside the Push to Diversify the Book Business (Published 2022)

For generations, America’s major publishers focused almost entirely on white readers. Now a new cadre of executives like Lisa Lucas is trying to open up the industry.

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Welcome to Janelle Monáe’s Dreamworld

In her new book, the artist and Afrofuturist icon conjures an apocalyptic—and hopeful—vision of the future.

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Anton Chekhov’s Beloved Summer Home in Ukraine is Under Threat lithub.com/anton-chekhovs-be… via @lithub
Anton Chekhov’s Beloved Summer Home in Ukraine is Under Threat

Anton Chekhov’s Beloved Summer Home in Ukraine is Under Threat

One week after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I received a message in English from the eastern part of the country, from an acquaintance—let’s call her Olha—in the city of Sumy. Founded by Cossacks …

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JSTOR Daily@JSTOR_Daily11 Feb 2022
Donald Goines wasn’t merely a purveyor of ghetto life, he explored and examined the plight of pimps, prostitutes, and broken families, penning crime fiction that happened to be about Black people, living Black lives. bit.ly/3uAbAb8
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The Gritty, Underground Network Bringing Japan’s Arcades to the US

After falling in love with an obscure anime rhythm game, I became obsessed with obtaining a machine of my own—or finding the people who could.

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Joan Didion and the Opposite of Magical Thinking newyorker.com/culture/postsc… via @NewYorker
Joan Didion and the Opposite of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion and the Opposite of Magical Thinking

You didn’t have to agree with her, but you had to submit to her sentences.

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Dubliners | Anne Enright

Dubliners | Anne Enright

The centennial of Ulysses is in 2022, and coming back to the book after a gap of some years I remember the way it makes me fall asleep somewhere in the

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