2014
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What Should a Disney Princess Read?
Taking inspiration from Butterball’s Turkey Talk-Line, the emergency hotline that amateur cooks can call on Thanksgiving to get advice on not burning their bird, Penguin Publishing launched its own holiday helpline, offering book-buying recommendations for readers looking for the perfect book…
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Down There
In light of Plush, Marilyn Minter’s new book of pubic hair photography, Vulture looks back on the history of the female bush in Western art. Like the women who owned them, pubes through the ages were nearly invisible: Of course…
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The Perfect Last-Minute Gift!
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How Not to Break
For NYT Magazine, Wils S. Hylton tackles the myth of Laura Hillenbrand, the bestselling nonfiction author who never really leaves her house: She is cut off not only from basic tools of reporting, like going places and seeing things, but also…
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Mac and Me
The last time I’d been to my father’s grave was the previous winter, for the dedication ceremony for his headstone. The wind gusted, bone-cold, and I didn’t stay long. I wondered if Dad brokered a deal with God to make…
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Weekly Geekery
What do machines take from us? Hacking the police. Saving Egyptians. Do headlines change the way we read? The Internet is real.
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For Gentlemen Only
The lack of literary interest in the game is surprising, since it serves as the perfect lens through which to examine our fractured state: its ingrained prejudices, gender distortions, money lust, and, above all, the culture of brute violence that…
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Interest in Celebrities Wane
Readers have apparently grown tired of the celebrity memoir, with autobiographies and memoirs of famous people slowing in sales, reports the Guardian.
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Slow and Steady
It took Gene Oishi 50 years to write his debut novel, a story about Japanese American identity and family during and after World War II. Over at The Nervous Breakdown, Oishi interviews himself about the process of writing Fox Drum…
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By Light We Knew Our Names by Anne Valente
Sadye Teiser reviews By Light We Knew Our Names by Anne Valente today in Rumpus Books.
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Between Drafts
The cycle of writing, editing, and publishing often leads to down time between drafts. Over at Beyond the Margins, Marlene Adelstein talks about not writing during the down time between submitting a finished manuscript and waiting to hear back from agents…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The very best Christmas presents 1916 has to offer. Perhaps you need a 1960s illustrated guide to the human race? 2014 in scientific breakthroughs and disappointments. Tokyo is in a battle to save it’s modernist architecture. And now the farthest…