2011
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Anonymous, the group that hacked Mastercard & others in defense of Wikileaks, is probably behind the attacks on Sony’s network. A (beautiful) visualization of how information spreads via twitter. Two prominent tech groups have asked the FCC to investigate Internet…
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A Truthful Book of Poverty: Jews Without Money, My Grandmother, Me
1. When NYU’s Liberal Studies Program—where I teach writing—announced that it would be sponsoring a symposium on the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, four somewhat peculiar words sprang into my mind: Jews. Without. Money. Grandma.
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The Case of the Closing Bookstores
The San Francisco Mystery Book Store is closing its doors, making it the city’s “second independent bookseller to announce its closure in as many months.”
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Horn! Reviews
HORN! REVIEWS: The Convert Kevin Thomas reviews the April Rumpus Book Club selection, The Convert, Rumpus-Comics style.
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So This Is It…So This Is It
Adam Zagajewski’s work is both a course in Mysticism for Beginners and a record of Eternal Enemies.
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Carolyn Lang: The Last Book I Loved, You Shall Know Our Velocity!
The last book that I loved was You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers, which is about two friends, Will and Hand, who come into $32,000 around the same time one of their friends dies unexpectedly. They are devastated…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe we all came from this dude. Life aboard a spy plane (way to go world). Similarly: let’s all check out James Bond first editions. How to swim in the 17th Century. Lastly: BIRD HATS.
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The Rumpus Interview with Cris Mazza
Cris Mazza is an indie lit icon. Her debut novel, How to Leave a Country, was a PEN Nelson Algren Award winner, and since then she has gone on to publish more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction…
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Toys with a Message
Dorothy, “a collective of like-minded people working on unlike-minded ideas,” has created a project, titled “Casualties of War,” which features green army men figurines showing symptoms of PTSD. (via MeFi)
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Is international hacking group Anonymous to blame for the recent Sony PlayStation Network hack? File under “painfully postmodern”: British charity National Trust is set to translate Facebook game Farmville into a real life farming experiment. Students, academics, and others obsessed…