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Novel, PLANES, out now. Also magazine writing. essays on songs by me + pals: https://xitter.cf/t.co/0RYWiIVjEJ updates: https://xitter.cf/t.co/qowCbnZWDS

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Just about 11 years after I started writing it, PLANES is out today! According to the New York Times it "captures our shared human ache with stunning accuracy." 🫠 nytimes.com/2022/05/31/books…

A Debut Novel About Two Couples, Divided by Countries and Creeds (Published 2022)

“Planes,” by Peter C. Baker, explores the internal lives of four characters in a story of activism, duty and culpability.

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I told my students I would write an example case study about the classical psychoanalytic defense mechanisms, using any fictional character of their collective choice. After a grueling multi-round election, we have a winner:
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Always read @apcbapcb
Jordan Harper 🏴@jordan_harperAug 5
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How Jordan Harper Reinvented Noir for the Epstein Era

This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir?

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Jordan Harper 🏴@jordan_harperAug 5
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How Jordan Harper Reinvented Noir for the Epstein Era

This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir?

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Eric Lach@ericlachAug 4
confidently introducing errors into copy, secretly racking up huge expenses, way overdoing it on the em dashes, taking any assignment offered, buying huge amounts of books from used bookstores for no reason—AI is a mid-career magazine writer
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✍🏼 roxana | ✊🏼 zivar | ⚒️ hadadi@roxana_hadadiAug 5
the kind of piece I'm jealous I didn't write, frankly newyorker.com/books/under-re…
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Anthony Domestico@tony_domesticoAug 5
"If you’re thinking that a human-tissue business sounds like a great way to hide evidence, you’ve probably been reading too much noir; you’re also right." Peter Baker on Jordan Harper's noir newyorker.com/books/under-re…

How Jordan Harper Reinvented Noir for the Epstein Era

This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir?

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I wrote about the new Jordan Harper and the question of what makes noir noir...
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This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir? newyorker.com/books/under-re…

How Jordan Harper Reinvented Noir for the Epstein Era

This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir?

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Once on Sanibel Island, Florida, I read a short story by Ben Lerner set on Sanibel Island, Florida, and the next day I almost smashed into a guy with my bike on one of the island's famous bike paths and that guy was Ben Lerner.
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You can also work the other end. Like maybe the idea you pitched didn't really work out. But still, at $14/w (my average), if you just file a paragraph or two then you'll still make some prosciutto money.
hanson o'haver@HansonOHaverMar 17
my one tip for the “how can young writers make more money?” discourse is to note that editors will often pay a bonus if you go long. So like, my Gawker contract was $8/word, but I’d often file 2–3 times as many words as initially agreed upon, and they’d bump me up to $10/word
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if you don't know what 'prosciutto money' is ... I'm sorry, you're already lost.
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hanson o'haver@HansonOHaverMar 17
my one tip for the “how can young writers make more money?” discourse is to note that editors will often pay a bonus if you go long. So like, my Gawker contract was $8/word, but I’d often file 2–3 times as many words as initially agreed upon, and they’d bump me up to $10/word
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Dr Paul Laidler@palaidlerMar 14
Best bit: "writing was a gift humanity had made for itself, a way for us to know ourselves and each other across space and time." theguardian.com/education/ng…

Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI

The long read: I was a newcomer, negotiating all of the usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack

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Longreads
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"I couldn’t wipe chatbots from their world, any more than I can wipe phones. All I could do was decide how much I would steer students toward them and how much I would nudge them toward other experiences." —Peter C Baker for The Guardian #longreads theguardian.com/education/ng…

Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI

The long read: I was a newcomer, negotiating all of the usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack

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オカピア・ジョンストーニ@EnglishOkapiaMar 4
夜に英文音読練習スペースやりますので一緒に練習してくださる方募集中🙂 theguardian.com/education/ng…

Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI

The long read: I was a newcomer, negotiating all of the usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack

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Elena Saavedra Buckley@elenasb_Mar 4
Smart piece by @apcbapcb on our era of "blank space" conspiracy theories, in which the lack of evidence is the evidence nytimes.com/2026/03/04/magaz…

In Today’s Conspiracy Theories, the Lack of Evidence Is the Evidence

The conspiracy theories of our time seem fixated on an absence of clues.

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Poetically shitty AI-written recap of my piece
Nordic AI Institute@nordicinstMar 3
The Guardian: Cheating machine or mighty aid? My trainee-teacher nerves crash when AI wanders into class—free chats craft prose, but can they shape thinking or simply caffeinate panic? Europe’s AI rush meets Swedish classrooms: who guides the handwriting… theguardian.com/education/ng…

Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI

The long read: I was a newcomer, negotiating all of the usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack

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Jane Fleming
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I was a newcomer, negotiating all of usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack >>Guardian long read worth the time tinyurl.com/2yerhveb

Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI

The long read: I was a newcomer, negotiating all of the usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack

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Gabriel Baker
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My brother wrote a wonderful piece about AI in the classroom for the Guardian. I encourage you to read it: theguardian.com/education/ng…

Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI

The long read: I was a newcomer, negotiating all of the usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack

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omg they spelled "COMMUNIST MANIFESTO" wrong on the new Sally Rooney cover
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I am on the brink of opposing the term 'The Epstein Files.' It makes it sound like there's a box somewhere and they're all in it. Or a big filing cabinet. Or thumb drive or whatever. And in some way this is peak aesthetic liberalism. Similar slip to 'the Epstein client list.'
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