Chloe Lutts Jensen
@cljensen.bsky.social
Writer | Editor | Tall Person
Kathleen Rooney's @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social "Man Overboard!" tackles the Manosphere and meaninglessness with talking sea animals. 🐬🪼🐙
Check out my review, out today in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social:
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2026/09/22/s...
Check out my review, out today in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social:
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2026/09/22/s...
Shallow Man, Deep Water: Kathleen Rooney’s “Man Overboard!”
“It’s a lot more entertaining to hear a dolphin tell a manchild to ‘grow the fuck up’ than to hear the same advice coming from a psychiatrist.” (review by Chloe Lutts Jensen)
anotherchicagomagazine.net
September 22, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Kathleen Rooney's @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social "Man Overboard!" tackles the Manosphere and meaninglessness with talking sea animals. 🐬🪼🐙
Check out my review, out today in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social:
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2026/09/22/s...
Check out my review, out today in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social:
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2026/09/22/s...
"Young women today were told that our lives would be ours, and are collectively stunned to find that promise being broken." by @jillfilipovic.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/o...
Opinion | Why a Doctor Told Gloria Steinem: ‘You Must Promise Me Two Things’
Gloria Steinem got to be who she was because of a pre-Roe abortion.
www.nytimes.com
September 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
"Young women today were told that our lives would be ours, and are collectively stunned to find that promise being broken." by @jillfilipovic.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/o...
Seeing mostly positive coverage of Google's "Preferred Sources" feature, including nudges from publishers I respect, so I guess we're all so worried about AI slop we've decided to stop worrying about echo chambers and filter bubbles. (And Google has decided to stop doing the thing it was built for.)
August 28, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Seeing mostly positive coverage of Google's "Preferred Sources" feature, including nudges from publishers I respect, so I guess we're all so worried about AI slop we've decided to stop worrying about echo chambers and filter bubbles. (And Google has decided to stop doing the thing it was built for.)
Reposted by Chloe Lutts Jensen
“The Nerd Reich” presents a much-needed intellectual history of big tech’s political moment, tracing the political influences shaping the companies that want to shape the future.
thebaffler.com/latest/reven...
thebaffler.com/latest/reven...
Revenge of the Nerds | Ali Winston
In his new book, Gil Durán examines the origins and ambitions of Silicon Valley’s war on democracy.
thebaffler.com
August 26, 2026 at 6:22 PM
“The Nerd Reich” presents a much-needed intellectual history of big tech’s political moment, tracing the political influences shaping the companies that want to shape the future.
thebaffler.com/latest/reven...
thebaffler.com/latest/reven...
"When students write, they write into uncertainty. They court risk. No surrogate exists for feeling an idea form in your mind and trying to express that idea on the page."
Walt Hunter in @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Walt Hunter in @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Bring Back the Blue-Book Exam
The humble booklet is more than just a last redoubt against cheating. Staring down its empty pages, students discover what they’re capable of as writers and thinkers.
www.theatlantic.com
August 26, 2026 at 6:57 PM
"When students write, they write into uncertainty. They court risk. No surrogate exists for feeling an idea form in your mind and trying to express that idea on the page."
Walt Hunter in @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Walt Hunter in @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Impressively thorough, nuanced reporting from @nytimes.com, @typeinvestigations.org and @floodlightnews.org:
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Impressively thorough, nuanced reporting from @nytimes.com, @typeinvestigations.org and @floodlightnews.org:
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
“… we should also try to spend less time stuck in our heads and more time out in the world, pursuing the kinds of activities that support mental health without making us so obsessed with it.”
For mental health, try exercise and volunteering:
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/o...
For mental health, try exercise and volunteering:
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/o...
Opinion | Stop Pathologizing Ordinary Life
We need to support psychological well-being without fixating on it.
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2026 at 12:29 PM
“… we should also try to spend less time stuck in our heads and more time out in the world, pursuing the kinds of activities that support mental health without making us so obsessed with it.”
For mental health, try exercise and volunteering:
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/o...
For mental health, try exercise and volunteering:
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/o...
“…to throw out the SAT and ACT because they show demographic gaps is akin to canceling the government’s publication of the unemployment rate because it shows similar gaps. Trying to deny a problem rarely helps solve it.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/o...
Opinion | A Great University Undermines Its Mission
www.nytimes.com
July 6, 2026 at 1:42 PM
“…to throw out the SAT and ACT because they show demographic gaps is akin to canceling the government’s publication of the unemployment rate because it shows similar gaps. Trying to deny a problem rarely helps solve it.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/o...
Reposted by Chloe Lutts Jensen
I am begging everyone to actually read this story. The details are RIGHT THERE. ASU Atomic is:
- not just impacting adjuncts
- very much enabled by Canvas
- neither opt-in nor opt-out; faculty weren't even notified this was happening
- inexplicably open to the public
- hot garbage
- not just impacting adjuncts
- very much enabled by Canvas
- neither opt-in nor opt-out; faculty weren't even notified this was happening
- inexplicably open to the public
- hot garbage
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
www.404media.co
April 28, 2026 at 3:06 AM
I am begging everyone to actually read this story. The details are RIGHT THERE. ASU Atomic is:
- not just impacting adjuncts
- very much enabled by Canvas
- neither opt-in nor opt-out; faculty weren't even notified this was happening
- inexplicably open to the public
- hot garbage
- not just impacting adjuncts
- very much enabled by Canvas
- neither opt-in nor opt-out; faculty weren't even notified this was happening
- inexplicably open to the public
- hot garbage
Reposted by Chloe Lutts Jensen
Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 26, 2026 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
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February 5, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
"We continue to have terrible judgment, flawed communication, a fondness for incapacitating agents, and a violently eroticized contempt for the feminine."
S.C. Cornell on sex beyond consent, in the @newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
S.C. Cornell on sex beyond consent, in the @newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex
The idea is legally vital, but ultimately unsatisfying. Is there another way forward?
www.newyorker.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:20 PM
"We continue to have terrible judgment, flawed communication, a fondness for incapacitating agents, and a violently eroticized contempt for the feminine."
S.C. Cornell on sex beyond consent, in the @newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
S.C. Cornell on sex beyond consent, in the @newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“In towns like mine, outsourcing and automation consumed jobs. Then purpose. Then people. Now the same forces are climbing the economic ladder.”
When retraining doesn’t last, by Brian Groh:
When retraining doesn’t last, by Brian Groh:
An essay of mine appeared in The New York Times today, related to a book project I’m working on. You can read it here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
Opinion | When A.I. Took My Job, I Bought a Chain Saw
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“In towns like mine, outsourcing and automation consumed jobs. Then purpose. Then people. Now the same forces are climbing the economic ladder.”
When retraining doesn’t last, by Brian Groh:
When retraining doesn’t last, by Brian Groh:
I have a new book review up for the @coloradoreview.bsky.social – check it out! coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/fore...
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange - Center for Literary Publishing
$27.99 Buy Book About the Book Author: Katie GohReviewed By: Chloe Lutts JensenGenre: NonfictionPublisher: Tin HousePublished: 2025Pages: 240 Book ReviewEarly in Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of t...
coloradoreview.colostate.edu
December 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I have a new book review up for the @coloradoreview.bsky.social – check it out! coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/fore...
✨ "sparking surprise and delight in your average human brain" ✨
Elliott Kalan explains to the @lithub.com.web.brid.gy Craft of Writing newsletter why three-part jokes are the funniest:
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Elliott Kalan explains to the @lithub.com.web.brid.gy Craft of Writing newsletter why three-part jokes are the funniest:
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December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
✨ "sparking surprise and delight in your average human brain" ✨
Elliott Kalan explains to the @lithub.com.web.brid.gy Craft of Writing newsletter why three-part jokes are the funniest:
manage.kmail-lists.com/subscription...
Elliott Kalan explains to the @lithub.com.web.brid.gy Craft of Writing newsletter why three-part jokes are the funniest:
manage.kmail-lists.com/subscription...
Tender and page-turning new fiction from Eliza Gilbert in @adroitjournal.bsky.social October issue. Read for free:
theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
Eliza Gilbert
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November 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Tender and page-turning new fiction from Eliza Gilbert in @adroitjournal.bsky.social October issue. Read for free:
theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
Ben Austen on community colleges as essential sponsors of American is both well researched and moving: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...
How Trump’s War on Higher Education Is Hitting Community Colleges
www.nytimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Ben Austen on community colleges as essential sponsors of American is both well researched and moving: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...
I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes by Homa Mojtabai www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...
I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes
Homelessness in America has reached crisis levels, and I am determined to do everything in my power to fix the problem as long as it doesn’t involv...
www.mcsweeneys.net
July 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes by Homa Mojtabai www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...
Reposted by Chloe Lutts Jensen
Our story of the week is Agnes and the Cemetery Bus by Susan Rose April.
Agnes and the Cemetery Bus - The Forge Literary Magazine
Agnes and the Cemetery Bus, flash fiction by Susan Rose April
forgelitmag.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Our story of the week is Agnes and the Cemetery Bus by Susan Rose April.
"Phil, whose long curls catch auburn in the light, thinks the Bible is not specific on Mary’s hair color, but Pastor Bob knows it was harlot red. And Pastor Bob is tight with God." ❤️🔥
Short Fiction by @eleanorfuller.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0325...
Short Fiction by @eleanorfuller.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0325...
Little Death Born Again — Split Lip Magazine
The whole congregation, apart from a few noobs recruited at last night’s street-preach, knows the story of Mary Magdalene washing Christ’s feet with her tears. How on bended knee she wiped them clean ...
splitlipthemag.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
"Phil, whose long curls catch auburn in the light, thinks the Bible is not specific on Mary’s hair color, but Pastor Bob knows it was harlot red. And Pastor Bob is tight with God." ❤️🔥
Short Fiction by @eleanorfuller.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0325...
Short Fiction by @eleanorfuller.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0325...
Quite enjoying this weird little online issue by @barrelhouse.bsky.social , especially stories by @elizabethendicott.bsky.social and @sashabrown.bsky.social
www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/new-onl...
www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/new-onl...
New Online Issue: The Pornhub Literary Supplement — Barrelhouse
Our new online issue is tailored for the sophisticated consumer of online smut and similar, interested in elevating their online browsing habits to the highest level.
www.barrelhousemag.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Quite enjoying this weird little online issue by @barrelhouse.bsky.social , especially stories by @elizabethendicott.bsky.social and @sashabrown.bsky.social
www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/new-onl...
www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/new-onl...
Sylvia Chan's "Never Stay Still," out now in HFR Issue 76, is a beautifully vulnerable and layered essay about the challenges of centering your own experience in a family narrative, and I was honored to ask her a few questions about the writing process for the HFR blog:
New on the blog: Chloe Jensen @cljensen.bsky.social asks 3 questions of Sylvia Chan, author of "We Remain Traditional" and an essay in our latest issue
haydensferryreview.com/blog/3-quest...
haydensferryreview.com/blog/3-quest...
3 Questions with Sylvia Chan — HFR
Sylvia Chan is an amputee-cyborg writer, educator, activist, and author of We Remain Traditional (Center for Literary Publishing, 2018). Her poetry and essays appear in Poetry, Zócalo Publ...
haydensferryreview.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Sylvia Chan's "Never Stay Still," out now in HFR Issue 76, is a beautifully vulnerable and layered essay about the challenges of centering your own experience in a family narrative, and I was honored to ask her a few questions about the writing process for the HFR blog:
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“Primed for hard-core jungle combat in a pencil skirt [she now] finds herself in a womblike bouncy castle where women are invited not just to have orgasms but also to have important conversations about their orgasms.”
Great article by @mireillesilcoff.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/m...
Great article by @mireillesilcoff.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/m...
Why Gen X Women Are Having the Best Sex
In an era plagued by sex negativity, only one generation seems immune: mine.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“Primed for hard-core jungle combat in a pencil skirt [she now] finds herself in a womblike bouncy castle where women are invited not just to have orgasms but also to have important conversations about their orgasms.”
Great article by @mireillesilcoff.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/m...
Great article by @mireillesilcoff.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/m...
"shooting for 100% is the equivalent of pointlessly straining to lift a dumbbell you can’t possibly lift, then usually giving up, resolving that when you try again tomorrow you’ll magically be strong enough."
@oliverburkeman.com on seeing imperfection as better:
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@oliverburkeman.com on seeing imperfection as better:
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The Imperfectionist: Seventy per cent
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February 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"shooting for 100% is the equivalent of pointlessly straining to lift a dumbbell you can’t possibly lift, then usually giving up, resolving that when you try again tomorrow you’ll magically be strong enough."
@oliverburkeman.com on seeing imperfection as better:
ckarchive.com/b/wvu2hghk5m...
@oliverburkeman.com on seeing imperfection as better:
ckarchive.com/b/wvu2hghk5m...