November 2015
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Growing Up with Books
Over at The Millions, Nick Ripatrazone asked some authors, including William Giraldi and Christa Parravani, which were the books that defined their childhoods and, subsequently, their writing imaginations.
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This Week In Posivibes: Killer Mike at FSU
While it isn’t unusual to find Killer Mike speaking about race and politics (see his past lecture at MIT on Pitchfork), Render appeared at Florida State University last week to lecture again on racism and civil rights. “Step out of…
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Fresh Comics #7: Giving Up The Ghost
If you’ve never heard of Whit Taylor, then now is the perfect time to discover her. Ghost (2015) is her understated masterpiece, self-published just months ago. As I began reading the book, I thought I was in for a nice little story…
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Gawker’s Problem with Women
Gawker has been failing its female employees. Gawker may pay its writers, but as Evans found out after staffers voted to unionize, Gawker doesn’t pay its writers equally: The union effort prompted my discovery of an egregious pay discrepancy, which…
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The Sound of Different Voices
If we are to truly speak to, from, and about the margins, to which voices are we to tune our ears? The Offing has a new special issue devoted to trans and non-binary artists. Editor Jayy Dodd introduces this project and…
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Barbara Berman’s 2015 Holiday Poetry Shout-Out
Barbara Berman offers some gift suggestions for the poetry lovers in your life. Or just for you. Treat yourself!
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Weekly Geekery
A song of my selfie. A year after the Sony hack. Wired: the good and the bad and the in between. A visual history of the OS we all love to hate.
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Putting One Foot in Front of the Other
Cheryl Strayed has inspired so many readers with her wise sayings, it was only a matter of time before someone collected them. The author of Brave Enough talks to Brian Lehrer about growth, fear, and moving forward: All the best…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
A Paris bookseller writes about the terror attacks. Parisians, meanwhile, are responding to the terror attacks by buying up all the copies of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. Iranian bookstores opened early on Thursday last week in a campaign to…
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Life with a Literary Middle Name
Yes, I thought when I was sixteen. That sounds about right. Over at the Toast, Mikaella Clements tells us the story of how she got her middle name: being escorted through the tumultuousness of adolescence by the crazed sailor Herman Melville…
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The Million-Dollar Debut
While most debut novelists are seeing advances shrink, a handful of authors are seeing the reverse: million-dollar paydays. Consider Garth Risk Hallberg‘s City on Fire, released earlier this year. The 900-plus-page book earned a $2m advance. The novel will have…
