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Stephanie Johnson’s Microfiction
“This book is like a photo album made of pictures collected at random from people on a busy street; each story is a single moment that comes from a different place, time, and gender-perspective, and each is narrated closely, creating…
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A Battlefield at Night
The site EnglishRussia recently published some stunning photos of the Russian Army doing battlefield exercises at night, taken from a hill high above the field.
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What the Nobel Prize Does for Small Publishers
Over at The Millions, C. Max Magee has written an article about what being awarded the Nobel Prize does for a book and its publisher from an American perspective. Being that American literature is rarely rewarded the prestigious prize, Magee…
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Morning Coffee
Spanish street art is a pretty good way to start a day. Whale shark! a new London exhibit considers what museums should throw away. Bad ass authors more bad ass than the bad asses they created. Giving blood-sucking leeches a…
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The Rumpus Interview with Frank Plant
I like things to be accessible; it’s important for me to communicate to the non-art crowd as well as those more versed in art appreciation so I keep the entrance point as accessible as possible and leave it up to…
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TRUTH SERUM
Defriendship (Part 2)Cut yourself hundreds of times with the pages of a Truth Serum book!
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Another Bold Declaration About The YouTube Mash-Up
First, it ascended to high art with Kutiman’s assemblage of unrelated music clips into original jams. Now the ante has been officially upped by Darren Solomon, who combined twenty YouTube music clips into a sprawling, interactive, personalized Steve Reich-o-tron, right…
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A Kind Defense of the Kindle
Stephen Marche has an article in the Wall Street Journal about how, as of now, “the Kindle 2 will become the first e-reader available globally. The only other events as important to the history of the book are the birth…
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Health Care Links
“Lay of the Land,” a look at where the health care debate is right now. “Reid: I’m Discussing the Public Option With Democrats and Republicans” “If a new tax is passed and no one actually pays it, can it fund…
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FUNNY WOMEN #5: What We Were Really Saying
Me I verb you. Him I similarly feel for you in this way, but I’ll never say the word verb. I have feelings only only when I feel like it.