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Dinah Fay

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Dinah Fay is a poet, copywriter, and social media maven living in Brooklyn. She is the co-host of the Brick City Speaks reading series in Newark, where she is pursuing an MFA in writing from Rutgers University.
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Searching for Cervantes

  • Dinah Fay
  • January 28, 2015
After a Times article last March criticized Spain (and its literary establishment) for failing to unravel the mystery of the precise location of Miguel de Cervantes’s grave, a reinvigorated search…
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Rushdie Goes Medieval

  • Dinah Fay
  • January 28, 2015
Salman Rushdie, no stranger to controversy, now finds himself under scrutiny from a different sort of institution: the Times Literary Supplement. Michael Caines, writing for TLS, takes issue with Rushdie’s…
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Ban “Bravery” from Book Jackets

  • Dinah Fay
  • January 28, 2015
David Ulin at the LA Times makes interesting argument for retiring the word “brave” from jacket copy. Citing its overuse and the seeming dissonance of describing literature as brave in the…
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Carol Ann Duffy’s First Ladies

  • Dinah Fay
  • January 21, 2015
In a playful reflection on the work and philosophy of poet Carol Ann Duffy, Jeanette Winterson explores the possibilities for storytelling, feminism, and everyday entertainment through poetry. Winterson excerpts poems…
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Digitizing Reels of History

  • Dinah Fay
  • January 21, 2015
The British Library says it has a window of 15 years to preserve an invaluable cache of sound recordings, but unless fundraising can help pick up the pace, the archives…
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Objectivism in Action at Texas Schools

  • Dinah Fay
  • January 21, 2015
Parents in one of the wealthiest towns in Texas are lobbying to get Ayn Rand into schools, and in a classic case of life imitating art (or art being chosen…
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Hacking Away at Old Saws

  • Dinah Fay
  • January 14, 2015
In an interview with NPR about his new book, It’s Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Cliches, Orin Hargraves acknowledges the utility of well-worn shorthand…
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Goodbye Chestnut, Hello Chatrooms

  • Dinah Fay
  • January 14, 2015
The Oxford Junior Dictionary takes the forefront this week in the debate over the pedagogy of reference books, as 28 authors join a public campaign to reverse changes that have…
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A Mélange of Loafing and Looking

  • Dinah Fay
  • January 14, 2015
In Leslie Jamison’s introduction to a new edition of Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days & Collect, excerpted over at Slate, the word “specimen” is rescued from its isolating, clinical connotations, instead becoming…
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Literary Criticism Criticism

  • Dinah Fay
  • January 7, 2015
At The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jeffrey J. Williams takes on the question of the role of literary criticism, both historically and in the current moment. In a world where big…
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A Nobel Refusal

  • Dinah Fay
  • January 7, 2015
Jean-Paul Sartre became the only Nobel literature laureate to voluntarily decline the honor in 1964, but as newly released archives from the Swedish Academy reveal, it was at least partially…
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Banish the Bae

  • Dinah Fay
  • January 7, 2015
No one holds a monopoly on cranky admonishments of popular parlance, but Lake Superior State University’s annual “List of Banished Words” does hold the distinction of admonishing longest. The 40th…
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