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2010
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Respectful
“Doerr is daring, yes, and compassionate, but more than anything, the four stories and two novellas in this collection are imbued with, and fueled by, a deep, almost anachronistic-seeming respect…
Hot Nights
Tickets are available for the next Monthly Rumpus and, given the all-star lineup, we highly recommend you buy ’em now:
FUNNY WOMEN #29: Rules for Emailing Your Instructor
RHET1002 Students, It has come to my attention that many of you are unaware of my policy on email etiquette. Please take a moment to review the following guidelines to better facilitate…
Every Book Asks for Something Different
Tracy Kidder talks to the Bygone Bureau about the danger of rereading your work: “Only two things can happen, and neither one is good. Either I’m reading and think how…
“The error certainly won’t be repeated.”
So says Paris Review editor Lorin Stein in a post on the “Conditional Boycott of The Paris Review” Facebook page. Stein also says that he will be writing each poet…
Are You an Addict?
“But it’s not extreme anecdotes that make the specter of Internet addiction so threatening; it’s the fact that Internet overuse has the potential to scale in a way that few…
What’s In an Ending?
“Picasso said that a great work of art comes together ‘just barely.’ I’ve always loved this quote, because it implies that a work of art is a whole thing, as…
The Kingdom Within
In a new collection, Anthony Doerr lovingly explores the topography of the natural world and the shifting interior landscapes of memory.
Morning Coffee
On the 1935 invasion of the US by Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean. (via io9.) Oh, hello human fish. (Note: the ocean is sort of gross.) Thanks to the Internet…