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Hannah Kingsley-Ma
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Tiny Beautiful Things Round-Up
“’In the end, Tiny Beautiful Things is a guide for anyone who is lost, and those who only think they might be.” That’s an excerpt from today’s San Francisco Chronicle review of Cheryl Strayed’s new collection of Dear Sugar columns, Tiny…
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Whose Opinion Is Missing?
Talking Points Media reports on the deficit of female op-ed writers, citing an assessment conducted by The OpEd Project. The article quotes Katherine Lanpher, a member of the organization, who tells the website: “We are seeing that women aren’t narrating…
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“Twitter For Authors”
The LA Times reports that Twitter has released a how-to-manual titled “Twitter for Authors.” The guide details six tips particularly geared towards writers, some of which include the not-so-helpful “Be Authentic, Be Yourself,” and “Above All, Have Fun.” Nowadays many…
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A PEEK INSIDE ZADIE SMITH’S NEW NOVEL
The Millions has excerpted the first lines of Zadie Smith’s forthcoming novel NW. Set in northwest London, this book is Smith’s first novel since the publication of On Beauty in 2005. NW will be released this September.
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“The stuff we write has to matter, and I’m always pushing to the core, the heart of that”
The 99 Percent interviews Cheryl Strayed in anticipation of her soon-to-be released collection of Dear Sugar columns, Tiny Beautiful Things. The author discusses Sugar’s origin story, writing as a means of self-discovery, and the particulars of composing for the Internet.…
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WAL-MART-TURNED-LIBRARY
The Los Angeles Times details a former Wal-Mart that has been converted into the “largest single-story library in the country.” The McAllen Public Library, located in a Texan town right on the border of Mexico, is reportedly larger than two…
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THE F-WORD & THE NEW YORKER
Mary Norris writes about the gradual inclusion of profanity in The New Yorker in this short piece, exploring questions on how one properly quotes Earl Sweatshirt, and whether or not the term “star fucker” is hyphenated.
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n+200,000.00
“Like the market for skin care products, the market for credentials is inexhaustible: as the bachelor’s degree becomes democratized, the master’s degree becomes mandatory for advancement. Our elaborate, expensive system of higher education is first and foremost a system of…
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Lost In Translation
Prospero brings to light the homogeneous nature of American and British book markets, remarking: “When it comes to international literature, English readers are the worst-served in the Western World.” Only three percent of books published in America and Britain annually…
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Self-published Author Takes On Amazon
After two years of global roaming, Andrew Hyde funded his self-published travel book This Book Is About Travel through the website Kickstarter. His funders indicated their overwhelming preference that his book be available on a Kindle, a sentiment understood and…
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Train Spottings
The strange confluence of affection for both literature and modes of public transportation is highlighted by The New Yorker today, in their post about the website Underground New York Public Library. The website catalogues two types of subjects: people who…
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INHERITANCE IN THE AGE OF THE E-BOOK
“Among all the gifts of the electronic age, one of the most paradoxical might be to illuminate something we are beginning to trade away: the particular history, visible and invisible, that can be passed down through the vessel of an…