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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Look at How Much Fun We’re Having
The Creosote Journal has posted a write up of last Monday’s Rumpus in San Francisco (beautiful photos included).
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Kerouac in Florida
“Florida? Jack Kerouac lived in Florida?” For less than one year Kerouac crashed with his mother in Orlando, where he, in an “intense stretch not all that different from the one in which he composed On the Road, […] wrote…
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So You Want to Write a Children’s Book
“An Open Letter to Everyone Who Thinks it Must Be Easy, Writing Kid’s Books,” by Adam Rex. (via @lisabrowndraws)
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Calling All Steinbecks
“Three years into the Great Depression Steinbeck had already written Of Mice and Men, a tale of migrant farm workers, and had started on The Grapes of Wrath.” In these harsh economic times Michael Goldfarb asks, “Where are today’s Steinbecks?”…
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Long Live the Essay
Lucasta Miller praises “the elastic glory of the essay” and the form’s (arguable) father, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.
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Black Lung Books
“Three advocacy groups have started a letter-writing campaign asking Scholastic Inc. to stop distributing the fourth-grade curriculum materials that the American Coal Foundation paid the company to develop.” It’s always good news when corporate sponsored “teaching materials” get called into…
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Suing Google
“French publishers Albin Michel, Flammarion and Gallimard are suing Google for having scanned 9,797 books without prior permission…” Another lawsuit has been launched against the Google Book Search program. (via PW)
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Damn Grrl
“You can feel the collective shudder among language purists: ‘innit’, ‘grrl’ and ‘thang’ have been admitted into the Collins Scrabble Dictionary. Admission into any dictionary is the first step on the road to legitimation, thus raising the question of whether…
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Missing Chicago
Katie Gillett’s Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities didn’t include Chi-Town and the good folks at Chicagoist have taken notice.
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Remembering DFW’s KCS
“On a hot Ohio morning, Wallace described for the Kenyon grads the day-in-day-out difficulties of grown-up American life.” Over at The Millions “Kenyon Grads Remember David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Speech.”