2011
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Science Saturday
This has always seemed like “no crap” idea to me, but still…if you’re writing about heath studies, you should probably find out who’s funding those studies in the process. An interview with Hans Fricke, the man who’s spent more time…
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Saturday Morning Links
I’m taking next weekend off to get married. Seth Fischer, who rides herd on this joint some Sundays, is going to fill in for me, for which I am eternally thankful. I’ll try to avoid the temptation to check and…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Win-win: Microsoft receives 5 times more income from Android phones than Windows phones after winning a copyright infringement case. The teen who sold white iPhone kits recounts how Apple hunted him down. Apparently the tech boom is moving to New…
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One Quick Flash: Book Club Roundup
Lucky Fish by Aimee Nezhukumatathil has won the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize for books. The US Review of Books writes: “By enfolding folk beliefs, tales, or superstitions into contemporary experience, place, or situations, these poems delineate a fascinating, unexpected adventure.”…
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“I Once Got Paid $100 a Word”
Richard Morgan on the ups and downs of his “Seven Years as a Freelance Writer.”
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The Mysterious Case of Novel-in-Stories
What does it mean exactly to claim that stories are linked, loosely or not? What must do the linking in order for the chain to hold?
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eWylie
“I don’t think in the next 20 years people will have a screen in the library and access all their reading that way. I have a Kindle, and we have iPads at home. But I don’t use any of them.…
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Google at BEA
“By far, the most common way for readers to find out about new books and authors is by browsing in a physical store.” Publisher’s Weekly covers Google’s panel discussion at BEA.
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@LeopoldBloom
Considering that Ulysses was originally published in serial form by The Little Review starting in 1918, it seems rather fitting that “James Joyce’s modernist masterpiece” is getting “a Twitter makeover.”
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The Speed of Belief
We don’t always run a separate review of our Poetry Book Club selection, but you’re in luck here. Taylor Hagood takes us through Tracy K. Smith’s latest, Life on Mars.