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Features & Reviews

Shya Scanlon Experiments with Web Serialization

Beginning this Thursday, Shya Scanlon will be serializing his sci-fi novel, Forecast, in semi-weekly installments across 42 web journals and blogs. Forecast is a sci-fi tale of relationships and identity…

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Video

What It All Means

Video for a previously unreleased song by Sam Phillips, which appears on The Believer‘s July/August 2009 Music Issue CD entitled “Fantastic and Spectacular,” which was compiled by Daniel Handler.

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The Land Grab Out My Front Door: A Memoir of Jerusalem in Pictures

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Morning Coffee

Morning Coffee

The Big Picture on the 2009 Venice Biennale. Andreas Gursky‘s photographs of enormous scale. More on Hemingway being a failed KGB spy. (bonus music link.) Brooklynites are an ingenious sort.…

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Other

The Past and Possible Future of Wikipedia

The London Review of Books recently published one of the best single articles I’ve ever read about the history and possible future of Wikipedia, in a review of Andrew Lih’s…

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Other

Decaying Socialism: Good For Struggling Writers?

Craig Fehrman’s post earlier today, The Freelance Life, got me thinking about something interesting I read in The Wreck of the Henry Clay last week. In a post from April…

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Other

Analysis Taken Too Far

I have to admit, reading an application of literary theory to something like a pop song gives me the giggles. Yeah, I’m a dork–this is a shock? So when I…

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Kevin Van Aelst

Kevin Van Aelst works in the media of the commonplace. The images in his fingerprint series, for example, are rendered on typewriter paper, or with cheese puffs, fragments of cassette…

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Rumpus Original

An Oral History of Myself #11: Ashley

I put myself in the group home. I was in the therapist office with my mom and I said, "I give up. I'm not going to try anymore," meaning getting along with my mom, and he suggested the group home.

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Features & Reviews

Blogging for Book Deals

What do Look at this Fucking Hipster, Postcards from Yo Momma, Stuff White People Like, I Can Has Cheezburger, and Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle, have in common (you…

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The Magic Hour

Reading such a dense novel can feel like being in the backseat of a car traveling nonstop through a safari, with a reader wanting to stop and poke around a…

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Other

The Freelance Life

The latest issue of the Oxford American includes their annual “Best of the South” package, but it’s also got an essay on the struggles of freelancing, a subject that knows…

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