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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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A Fair Shake for Flawed Female Characters

  • Dinah Fay
  • November 19, 2014
Over at the Guardian, Emma Jane Unsworth considers the apparent likeability divide between anti-heroes—as it turns out, a heavily gendered archetype—and their female counterparts. Why does it seem that readers…
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Who Will Stand Up for Crumbling Libraries?

  • Dinah Fay
  • November 19, 2014
In an opinion piece in the New York Daily News, David Giles calls upon the de Blasio administration to extend its efforts to strengthen infrastructure and promote equal opportunity by…
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Sci-Fi Tide Sweeps through China

  • Dinah Fay
  • November 12, 2014
Science fiction is a growing force on the Chinese literary landscape now that government scrutiny of the genre has loosened up, according to a recent article in the Times. The…
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Poets of Color and the Avant-Garde

  • Dinah Fay
  • November 12, 2014
In a provocative piece for the latest issue of Lana Turner, Cathy Park Hong takes the self-appointed avant-garde movement to task for its all-too-traditional track record on race and identity…
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Streaming the Book Fair, Olympic-Style

  • Dinah Fay
  • November 12, 2014
According to a report in the New York Times, PBS will be live-streaming the Miami Book Fair at Dade College later this month. Representatives at PBS cite a strong correlation…
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LA Star Map: Graveyard Edition

  • Dinah Fay
  • November 5, 2014
Readers who visit Paris or London in the hopes of paying their respects to departed authors can do so in one fell swoop, with graves concentrated in a single, central…
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It’s Fair Use, My Dear Watson

  • Dinah Fay
  • November 5, 2014
There’s been no shortage of Sherlock Holmes spin-offs in the past few years, and with the Supreme Court’s decision not  to hear a case from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate,…
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Russian Novels for Rushing Muscovites

  • Dinah Fay
  • November 5, 2014
In addition to boasting one of the most beautiful subway systems in the world, Moscow commuters now stand to become the best-read. Per the Guardian, over 100 titles from authors…
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Reading Recs: Man vs. Machine

  • Dinah Fay
  • October 29, 2014
At Co.EXIST, Jessica Leber pits the algorithms of digital giants Amazon and Goodreads against the ultimate recommendation engine: librarians. Leber details her experience with the Brooklyn Public Library’s BookMatch program,…
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Is Word Perfect?

  • Dinah Fay
  • October 29, 2014
Writing for the NYR Blog, Edward Mendelson gets deep into philosophy to address a true writer’s question: Is Microsoft Word the best tool for composing text? Borrowing ideas from Plato,…
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Summer Camp for Book Nerds

  • Dinah Fay
  • October 29, 2014
For the burgeoning field of Critical Bibliography, “the study of the physical characteristics of books and the process of bookmaking,” Rare Book School is the highlight of the year. The…
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Surveillance in the Stacks

  • Dinah Fay
  • October 22, 2014
Librarians have hard-won reputations as defenders of open information and patron privacy, but what about third-party providers of library services? Slate’s Future Tense explores some recent revelations from companies like…
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