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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Big Principal Is Watching
I remember when you only had to worry about your locker being searched. In what seems like a scene from his own techno-geek surveillance novel Little Brother (which, as a former teenage troublemaker, I really enjoyed), Cory Doctorow reveals a…
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“The Red Ribbon”
“Artist Donna K. hallucinates a sentence from author Aimee Bender’s ‘The Red Ribbon,’” which appears in Electric Literature No. 3.
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BookPhone
Here in the U.S. of A. “the focus for the future of e-reading has been primarily on the larger format, dedicated e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad.” But what about in other parts of the world, “where…
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Tune of the Day
Artists: MC Lars and K.Flay Song: “Single and Famous” Note: K.Flay will be performing at the next Monthly Rumpus.
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Poet Loses Favorite Cafe Table
“‘I wrote three books sitting at the table,’ he said.” Poet Rodrigo Toscano laments the closing of the Greenpoint Coffeehouse in Brooklyn, where he wrote for seven years.
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How Often Do You Check It?
Numbers from Nielsen prove what most of us already knew: “Facebook is the web’s ultimate timesink.” That’s right, the average Internet user spends more time on Facebook “than on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft, Wikipedia and Amazon combined.”
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“There is no such thing as bad whiskey…”
“‘The maddening thing about Bill Faulkner,’ recalled Random House founder Bennett Cerf in his memoir At Random, ‘was that he’d go off on one of those benders, which were sometimes deliberate, and when he came out of it, he’d come…