Gregory Wolfe
@Gregory_Wolfe
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Publisher & editor of @SlantBooks. Founder of IMAGE journal & the SPU MFA in Creative Writing. Author of Beauty Will Save the World, The Operation of Grace, etc
Seattle
Joined July 2010
My last tweet had the phrase "At the risk of sounding pompous" in it. Could you all just please assume that phrase before reading all my future tweets? Thx.
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RT @SlantBooks: Exciting news! Close Reading, the Slant Books blog, is now available on Substack. Sign up to receive all posts directly to….
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"Fisketjon grew up on a mink ranch. 'It’s good training for publishing, b/c you work very hard, long hours, & you don’t make any money.'” [I WILL REFRAIN FROM COMPARING WRITERS TO MINKS. ].
The literary Brat Packer and editor of everyone from Cormac McCarthy to Donna Tartt, fired from Knopf in 2019, has picked up his green mark-up pen again.
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Stop the Defunding and Rapid Reduction of the Honors College at the University of Tulsa - Sign the Petition! via @Change.
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Stop the Defunding and Rapid Reduction of the Honors College at the University of Tulsa
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RT @Duotrope: The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fiction Collections feat. @BaobabPress @fly_press @slantbooks @freestatereview et al. ht….
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What is the impact of AI on reading? George Dardess on utilitarian vs. "close" reading, today at Slant's Close Reading blog.
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Had a sudden burst of nostalgia for the Sundays where a big, fat newspaper awaited me after church.
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I.e., support initiatives like @SlantBooks!.
Here are @tedgioia’s key principles for a new indie movement in music and the arts, to free us from the algorithms, memes, sequels, stasis, and top-down control.
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RT @beataproduction: “Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing t….
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Charles Bukowski, no; Wyndham Lewis, yes. RIP, John Martin, founder of Black Sparrow Press.
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Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the U.S., championing writers like Charles Bukowski.
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Truly one of the finest Christian Humanists of the last half-century. He will be sorely missed.
GRATEFUL TO SEE THIS REMEMBRANCE OF VIRGIL NEMOIANU, whose selfless help and guidance I will never forget. A Christian Scholar: Professor Virgil Nemoianu (1940–2025)
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What would @DavidAFrench and @nytdavidbrooks say if they knew that someone had spent 40 years addressing the ills they both wrote about in the @nytimes today -- a one-stop shop! BTW, @DavidAFrench, I wrote an essay in *1994* entitled "Why I Am a Conscientious Objector in the
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Here another irony: cross-reference two op-eds in today's @nytimes -- David Brooks on the decline of literature & David French on the danger of the culture wars mentality, and you have my entire career -- standing in the gaps they are decrying.
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See below from a David French op-ed today in the @nytimes. I entitled an editorial statement in IMAGE with this phrase in ***1994***. But now it's been coined by someone in 2025. This is another reason why I have become a Grumpy Old Man. If only they'd listened to me 31 years
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Thank you to everyone who has followed @SlantBooks. We'll think of this as "our first thousand". Read on!
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I'm looking at the @SlantBooks profile - 998 followers. If you follow me, you should definitely be following Slant. Our new managing editor will be taking over social media and will do a much better, more creative job with it than I have. So why not get Slant over 1000 followers?
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I get a lot of emails -- most are forgettable. This one, from a writer who had submitted a MS to @SlantBooks, is not.
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Yours Truly pulling double duty as Theseus & Oberon in A Midsummer Nights Dream, ably assisted by Puck, with the MAT in Classical Education at Eastern University Players.
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