Andy Oler

@andyoler

Parent, English prof, Hoosier. He/him. Departments Editor, New Territory, #LiteraryLandscapes. Old-Fashioned Modernism (LSU 2019), Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell (MSU 2023) & Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest (UIP 2025).

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Andy Oler@andyoler· Jun 14

We did it! LINGERING INLAND won a Midwest Book Award! Thanks to contributors Olga Herrera and Liz Wilkinson for accepting on behalf of all our contributors!

Two women standing in front of a Midwest Book Awards banner holding the book Lingering Inland, a certificate, and a very large gold medal plaque

Andy Oler@andyoler· Apr 5

Otto and the Moaners on a Sunday afternoon

Record on turntable next to the cover of Otto and the Moaners’ album, Deep Country Dream, featuring evergreens at dusk. Sunlight and greenery through the window in the background.

Andy Oler@andyoler· Mar 31

Excited for the Unbound Book Festival in a couple weeks, where I’ll get to share a stage with the authors of these fine books: Leslie VonHolten, George Frazier, and Kieran Walquist!

Three books on a wood tabletop with two chair backs and windows in the background

Andy Oler@andyoler· Mar 21

Toby left a massive record collection, and while I couldn’t keep everything, I saved two big bins, and I’m going through one-by-one. Today we’ve got a throwback that probably introduced a lot of teenage boys to jazz and world rhythms. Thanks, Tobe.

Record player spinning LP, beside album cover of the Beastie Boys’ The In Sound from Way Out!

Andy Oler@andyoler· Jan 30

The newest volume of #LiteraryLandscapes is here! It's a timely issue, with an essay on Renee Nicole Good and two from the Twin Cities. 1/2

A series of five portraits with a blue background. The faces are Harvey Pekar (drawn in comic style), Stuart Dybek, Renee Nicole Good, Danez Smith, and Charles Dickens (artistic portrait).

Andy Oler@andyoler· Jan 30

Aunt Lisa donated a copy of Lingering Inland to my high school library!

High school library bookshelf featuring Lingering Inland alongside several other books by local authors from Hagerstown, Indiana

Andy Oler@andyoler· Jan 2

Several of Toby’s friends are gathering this weekend to play his music. Seems perfectly fitting, and I’m grateful both that they’re doing it and that I can be there

“Don’t Mind if we doodily do: a night of music celebrating Toby Oler. Orbit Room, January 3” handwritten on a watercolor background

Andy Oler@andyoler· Dec 17

We've got a brand-new volume of #LiteraryLandscapes for you to peruse, this time on Mark Twain! Even before you click the link below, check out these portraits—they make me wonder if *anyone* at the turn of the 19-20c was photographed more.

Five black-and-white portraits of Samuel Clemens (pen name Mark Twain), ranging in age from his teenage to his later years.

Andy Oler@andyoler· Dec 14

We had a really wonderful book launch for Lingering Inland last night! Thanks to everyone who came out!

Lingering Inland Andy Oler spelled out in cookies

A row of mostly gray-bearded men signing books

Andy Oler@andyoler· Dec 11

My Aunt Tracy sent me a note and look at this brilliant sticker

The back of an envelope with a sticker of Mothman sitting behind a bowl. Above and below it says, “Please leave me alone I am eating soup”

Andy Oler@andyoler· Dec 6

Look at that beautiful box of books!

Multiple copies of the book Lingering Inland in a cardboard box, photo askew. Book cover is an aerial shot of a single car driving on a rural road, with a blue circle with the title and a white circle with the editor, Andy Oler.

Andy Oler@andyoler· Dec 5

Pretty pleased with this end-of-semester grading set-up

Research poster on masculinity in August Wilson’s Fences next to a laptop set up on a bin that is sitting on a rolling cart. Bookshelves and academic buildings in the background

Andy Oler@andyoler· Nov 29

A few other folks shared too, including one guy he talked to in the post office where he worked. After, a few other music friends hung around and played several more songs. The people at the local diner where Dad and Toby would eat got this wood engraving for Mom and Dad.

Wood engraving of a man in sunglasses playing the banjo, with the words “In memory of Toby Oler 06.22.81-11.11.25”

Andy Oler@andyoler· Oct 30

I’ve been given the highest honor

Two people standing side by side. A woman dressed in Halloween costume like the man, with light pants, a checked shirt, gray beard, and glasses

Andy Oler@andyoler· Oct 11

Here we are—what a fun panel! @rosstangedal.bsky.social @dawnburns.bsky.social @leahamilne.bsky.social @indianahumanities.bsky.social

Five people standing in front of a banner for Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest

Andy Oler@andyoler· Oct 11

Come visit me and The New Territory at Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest!

Gray-bearded man sitting at a table with New Territory magazine merch, with a basketball hoop and several tables in the background

Andy Oler@andyoler· Sep 27

Check out these @wittybanterism.bsky.social prints that my brother commissioned of my parents’ old house and barn

Framed prints of psychedelic artwork of barn and farmhouse

Andy Oler@andyoler· Sep 4

Sitting in a coffee shop, preparing to teach The Green Corn Rebellion for the first time, and I had forgotten that it kicks off with such a banger

Opening paragraphs of The Green Corn Rebellion, ending with “These little dead spells were long enough with him that you noticed them. Everybody has little flickers of death, but with an old person the blank spaces are long and apparent.”

Book cover of The Green Corn Rebellion and a latte in the foreground, with cars, sunshine, and palm trees behind

Andy Oler@andyoler· Aug 19

Advanced Reader Copy! Look at this beauty

Book cover of Lingering Inland: A Literary Tournof the Midwest, with an advanced reader edition sticker, held by a man’s left hand

Andy Oler@andyoler· Aug 6

Saw my favorite truck in the wild this morning

Tanker truck passing through intersection. Tank advertises Woody’s Septic Tank Service and is decorated with a rainbow spraying out of a hose.

Andy Oler@andyoler· Jun 28

I’m reading Middlemarch for the first time, and though a youth baseball clinic is pretty great for a morning of reading, and there are both lovely and funny passages, I can’t help but think I could have used some guidance to really appreciate this book

A page of George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch with an out-of-focus minor league ballpark in the background

Andy Oler@andyoler· Jun 27

Banner day: introducing the children to Wayne’s World

Andy Oler@andyoler· Jun 19

It’s a good afternoon, finally getting to settle in with Ashley Howard’s Midwest Unrest

Book cover of Ashley Howard’s Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement, with a shoe and some foliage in the background

Andy Oler@andyoler· May 16

I *wish* I were at a Des Moines brewery instead of in a hotel room drinking chamomile tea and babying my voice, but here's a little preview of tomorrow's #MHA2025 presentation.

Andy Oler@andyoler· Mar 14

It’s my birthday, and I’ve got a book and a latte and a carrot cake muffin, and on the way to the coffee shop I saw a bunny

Latte in foreground with blurry cars and palm trees behind

Andy Oler@andyoler· Dec 24

Update: we made it inside

Interior of fish market, packed full of people

Andy Oler@andyoler· Dec 24

The line at our local fish market, with complimentary Bloody Mary

Bloody Mary in foreground, with fuzzy line of people

Andy Oler@andyoler· Dec 24

Well, I made a hash of the fluting, but Elin’s birthday mulberry pie (berries from our tree) is ready to go for tomorrow!

Mulberry pie with reindeer shapes cut out of the top crust

Andy Oler@andyoler· Dec 10

We’ve had a department tic-tac-toe game for a while—play when you walk by, set the next piece out—and then today somebody added jenga

Wooden tic tac toe board on a white table next to a game of Jenga, with a student union building in the background

Andy Oler@andyoler· Nov 4

My election anxiety must have been obvious today, bc a good colleague gifted me these spice packets