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Charley Locke
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Support Publication of Young Authors: CanTeens Kickstarter
CanTeens, a literary and arts magazine, gives Harlem seventh graders an opportunity to discover and foster a love of reading, writing, and art through classes and a chance to see their name and writing in print. Unfortunately, CanTeens doesn’t have the funds…
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Margaret Atwood on the Internet
Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaiden’s Tale, the last book Jenna Le loved, tells us about writing with the internet as part of PEN’s Dialogue Series. “For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.… I think…
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The End of the World, and of Sixth Grade
On Fresh Air, Maureen Corrigan reviews The Age of Miracles, a new novel by Karen Thompson Walker about “the slowing” of the world, told by an eleven year old girl, Julia. “Sure, the natural world may be melting, but every bit as…
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The Gideon’s Bible, Kindle Edition
If you left your favorite religious text at home on your next business trip to Newcastle, don’t sweat it. The Hotel Indigo Newcastle is swapping all their bed stand Gideon’s Bibles for Kindles, allowing guests to purchase other “preferred religious…
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“the allure of those soft, silky nights”
Pablo Medina, author of Cuban City Blues, tells us about his nostalgia for 1950s Havana, restored by Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s novel Tres Tristes Tigres. “The language sizzles and sparkles and reinvents itself so that sound and sense revolve around each…
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Reckoning With Torture
Kelly Clark and Eve Ensler both read a speech originally given by President Bush against torture after the Abu Ghraib photos came out as part of PEN and the ACLU’s “staged readings showcasing declassified documents that detail America’s post-9/11 torture program.”…
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Protecting Your Writing From Type-Crimes
Are you unable to shake a nagging feeling that your typeface hasn’t been looking as “crisp and harmonious” as you’d like recently? Does your writing suffer from poor kerning, or a tragic abundance of orphans and widows? Please, consult this…
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“Beasts of the Southern Wild”
Ella Taylor reviews Beasts of the Southern Wild, a film which “racked up a total of four major awards and a storm of press attention” at Sundance and Cannes. It focuses on “Hushpuppy, a motherless bayou waif living on the…
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Erotic Little Women
OR Books will soon publish Fifty Shades of Louisa May: A Memoir of Transcendental Sex, which gives Alcott, who “probably didn’t have much erotica in her life” “a second chance at sex.” “It just hijacks the modern erotica category, throws away the…
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“Heck yes I’m willing to do this, I love peanut butter!”
Have you been searching for a collection of peanut-butter related news to no avail? Look no further: There’s a peanut-butter craving thief on the prowl in Ohio, who comes into a gas station most evenings after midnight and “snatches Reese’s…
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Making Sense of the “Floating Cultural Stew”
Over at the L.A. Times, David Ulin argues that the art of the contemporary essay is “in a renaissance.” He praises the recent essay collections of Tom Bissell and Mark Dery, adding them to the ranks of books like Jonathan…
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Alan Moore, Filmmaker
Alan Moore, author of Watchmen, among many other novels, has announced that he’s in the process of making a series of “occult, noir-flecked” short films called Show Pieces. They’ll premiere in New York in October and be released online through…