2011
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What Is Already Living: Author, Autobiography and Fiction in the Age of Social Networking
WRITE YOUR STORY reads the advertising placard for corporate octopus Citibank on display in the Union Square subway station in Manhattan. The campaign’s thrust appears to be this: by spending money, being a consumer, one, in fact, indites a story…
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October Taste of The Believer
The Believer is out now and some of this month’s fantastic, wide-ranging collection of literary articles are posted in their entirety online (including an online exclusive interview with artist David Shrigley). Among them, Jonathan Lethem defines and redefines in his…
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Bagging The Final Beat
Undie Press has posted the last online installment of “Bagging the Beats at Midnight: Confessions of an Indie Bookstore Clerk. Author of the series and St Mark’s Bookshop employee, Karen Lillis, “was recently approached by an outstanding indie publisher who…
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No More Mademoiselle
“In France, when you fill out a form — whether it’s a job application or a parking citation — if you’re a woman, you have to choose between madame and mademoiselle. Too bad if you feel your marital status is…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #104
KERMIT THE FROG ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Kermit the Frog.
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Defining Science and God
With illustrations from our own Ian Hubert, Salon questions how God and science can coexist.
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Two From Nick Rombes
“TWO THUMBS DOWN! the headline screams in victory. ‘Two more great reasons to see… Lost Highway.‘” Rumpus contributor Nick Rombes has a mini-review of an advertisement for David Lynch’s film Lost Highway out in the latest issue of The Believer.…
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Roxane Gay: The Last Book I Loved, This Is Not Your City
When I was a kid, I loved participating in my school’s science fair each year even though I did not necessarily have any aptitude for the scientific. My experiments were never that inspiring but I certainly thought they were—volcanoes erupting…
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Notable San Francisco 10/3-10/9
This week in San Francisco-free museum days, poetry days, and Lit Quake kicks off towards the end of the week.
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Notable New York, This Week 10/03-10/09
This week in New York, The Big Read: Utopia/Dystopia at the Center for Fiction; Largehearted Lit presents readings on fatherhood; Michael Ondaatje reads from his new novel; the Center for Book Arts Annual Chapbook Reading; The Inspired Word’s Big Apple…