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“The New Literacy”
Kids these days. With their facebook, twitter, and texts. They’re always wasting time on the internet, bouncing from one thing to the next, hardly able to focus long enough to…
The Blurb #10: Managing Writers in the Workplace – A Guide for Employers
Writers are most inspired when they have no time to write, thus employment keeps them writing, and suppresses maladaptive behaviors most of us are happy to read about but don’t want to ever actually see.
Things to Think About: Publishing Links
A handful of literary agencies deepen their commitment to publicity. The Dayton Literary Peace Prizes, which recognize “the power of literature to promote peace and nonviolence,” have been announced. An…
“I don’t want to hide this and be miserable my whole life.”
Supportive moms, special dances, harassment, unprepared school admins, gay straight alliance groups, and living a life “nearly incomprehensible to earlier generations of gay youth.” Benoit Denizet-Lewis, author of America Anonymous:…
Bored to Death’s Animated Opening Sequence
Also, Jonathan Ames points out “things of possible interest, the subtext as it were” in regards to episode 1. (via @JonathanAmes)
Tune of the Day
Artist: Leon Huff Song: “Tight Money” Today’s Tune of the Day inspired by Elizabeth Isadora Gold’s “Soul Pas de Deux.”
More Adderall
“It’s a common misperception that for some reason we should be telling stories about other people instead of ourselves.” An interview with Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott over at Memoirville. Also,…
Soul Pas de Deux
The music always gets me, right where I’m sure Bach meant it to, somewhere between my stomach and my heart.
Morning Coffee
Water on Lens celebrates the art of cinematic underwater photography. Chimpanzee masks make your crippling fear of breathing the air fun! What do optical illusions tell us about our brains?…