2011
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On Reading Civil Complaint No. 11-2472, Tasini v. AOL Inc. et al.
A week ago the labor writer and activist Jonathan Tasini filed a $105-million lawsuit in United States District Court, in New York’s Southern District, against HuffPost’s new owner AOL Inc., and HuffPost co-founders Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer, seeking to “vindicate…
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Self-Publishing Dos and Don’ts
More fuel to add to the self-publishing discussion: HTMLGIANT has posted a thorough guide on self-publishing books—how to print, distribute, get your very own ISBN, and a list of what has been proven not to work binding-wise. Because learning from…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
A big lobbying campaign, funded mostly by foreign corporations, is taking place to prevent the US Government shutting down online poker sites. OKCupid sayz: Frequent twitter users have shorter relationships and masturbate more. Also the higher the GDP of your…
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Digital Folk Art
“Like quilting, archiving employs the obsessive stitching together of many small pieces into a larger vision, a personal attempt at ordering a chaotic world.” This essay provides some edgy perspective on archiving, folk art and collectors as artists. Also, how…
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Another Beautiful Book from McSweeney’s
Our friends over at McSweeney’s have sent us a picture of the cover art for the soon-to-be-released A Moment in the Sun, by John Sayles:
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Subtitle Takeover
Bill Morris wrote an essay on the overwhelmingly long subtitles that seem to be part of the current book-perusing experience. This lengthy subtitle trend has extended to the reaches of the book cover and there isn’t much room for it…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #29: The Museum of Broken Things
Rick Moody interviews Moby about his obsession with drum machines.
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FUNNY WOMEN #51 (INAUGURAL AUDIO EDITION): Ayn Rand’s Headcheese
The Atlas Shrugged movie has opened–and we have the antidote. Rebecca Coffey recorded and musically scored (really!) “Ayn Rand’s Headcheese” recipe. Listen or download the podcast here.
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Egan on Winning the Pulitzer
“My focus is less on the need for women to trumpet their own achievements than to shoot high and achieve a lot. What I want to see is young, ambitious writers.” The Wall Street Journal talked with Jennifer Egan less…