2010
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Lounge Music
This is a book meant to bring poetry to the masses, in other words, and so [Editor A. J.] Rathbun has thrown in something for every taste, if only to ensure that every reader will find something to love.
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My Year In Books
As The Millions keeps rolling out their amazing Year In Reading series, I’d thought I’d offer my own attempt at doing justice to the books in my life, and not just the ones I read this year but the ones…
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The Exonerated’s Struggle
Great article over on the ABA Journal about the struggle of exonerated prisoners post-release. Freed prisoners talk about the many difficulties of returning to the real world including not being able to operate cell phones or computers and even how…
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Jesus Loves Sex Workers
It’s the question we’ve all asked ourselves at some point: what WOULD Jesus do about prostitution? Over on Salon, Tracy Clark-Flory profiles former prostitute and Hookers For Jesus rep Annie Lobert who claims to have the answer. [SPOILER ALERT: “God…
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The Visual World Of W.G. Sebald
“Sebald is brilliantly visual. He makes you realize with some discomfort that you often fail to look attentively enough at what you see. Another novelist referred to the “phenomenal configuration” of the author’s mind and what astonishes and delights in…
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Integrated Shelves
Sadly, like so many independently owned businesses, many LGBT bookstores are closing up shop. Andrew Belonsky argues that it may not be a cut and dry story of “big business squeezing out the little guy” though, but instead a sign…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
In 2010, people really wanted to get to the Facebook website, using all kinds of silly search terms. Here’s a cool infographic showing how technology use in the world has changed in the past decade. Profile Maker now makes it…
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Look! Look! Feathers
Mike Young’s debut collection sifts through the lives of characters on the fringe, grounding moments of the surreal in a world that is frighteningly real.