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Julianne Couch lives in northeast Iowa, in a county with a population of 29 people per square mile. Her Substack focuses on observations about life in small town rural Midwestern America. You don't have to be rural to get it.
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Everyone loves my book (opens the original)
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JULIANNE COUCH,No Wyoming story gets told in a vacuum. Every time a rural station cuts arts coverage, every time a regional press folds, every time a Western voice gets flattened into a coastal editor’s idea of what “the West” sounds like, the space for stories like yours shrinks a little more. What goes untold in Wyoming today becomes what nobody thinks to ask about tomorrow.Most writers watch that happen and feel like there’s nothing to do about it. But you wrote ALONG THE SLYVAN TRAIL*, your
Pools or ponds (opens the original)
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A few months back I was visiting with a younger friend about what we looked forward to this summer. We both agreed that we couldn’t wait to go swimming when the weather warmed up. There’s a public pool in my town of Decorah, Iowa, and even though I’ve lived here several years, I still haven’t gone to it. Skipping past the boring bits about the reasons, I’ll just say that my friend, a lifelong local, has also never been there. It turns out she’s only ever swum in local farm ponds or lakes, off th
Learning about AI for free (opens the original)
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Yes, I’m not writing this Substack newsletter with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI). No. Perhaps that is why my prose sounds like a fairly educated but often rushed human intelligence is behind it. I bring this up for a few reasons. One is that there appears to be a kerfuffle within Substack about which writers are or are not using Chat GPT or the like to speed up their creation. The other reason for this topic is that I realize how little I understand about AI, chatbots, data centers, a
Arising from summer hiberation (opens the original)
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I hadn’t planned to write about nuclear power, or electrical power development of any sort. After all, I wrote a book about it in 2018 and since then, I haven’t really kept up. Blame my short attention span. But then this spring what do I receive in my inbox but a call for proposals from the Middle West Review. (Middle West Review is the only scholarly print publication dedicated exclusively to the study of the Midwest as a region.) In part, here’s how the editors described what t
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