20 August 2026 Your Writing is GenAI-Assisted, Actually This is a response piece to an article I read on Substack recently that likened GenAI writing to a brain virus. Let me preface before I go further two critical points: I do not recall the article’s title nor the author’s name; I have blocked them, and I do not wish that anyone reading my essay here would either list the title/author in the comments, because… As an artist, creative writer, literature scholar, and college

Middlemarch: On Eliot and Reading qua Education--Whether Non-AI writing is "Elitist" These two concepts are so entangled in my mind right now: Middlemarch and literacy. I’ve been reading Middlemarch for nearly four months and am finally about to finish, during a time when my own literacy has faltered, a time when I can distinguish which of my Creative Writing students are readers, a time when culture claims that our education system is failing us, a time when a friend has tol