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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Morning Coffee
100 extraordinary examples of paper art. Australian stingless bees take care of invading beetles by mummifying them. Need to buy a belated gift for someone? Consider Celestial Soul Portraits by Erial Ali. (via HTMLGIANT) In search of the world’s hardest…
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Estonian Animation
Yesterday Will Schofield, editor of the oh-so-awesome A Journey Round My Skull, posted some amazing pictures from Estonian children’s books. Well Will has found an animated version of one of the books, and it is just as amazing… and by…
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Found in Translation
Open Letter Books has only been around for a year and has only published 16 titles, none of which have sold more than 3,000 copies. Yet the small publishing house has found its niche publishing “nothing but literature in translation,”…
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Le Guin Resigns
Ursula K. Le Guin, award-winning author of “21 novels, 11 volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, 12 books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation,” has resigned from the Authors Guild because of the organization’s…
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Random Media Notes
Amazon reports that Kindle Books outsold real books on Christmas day (and Mashable shows why that’s just PR smoke and mirrors). An argument for schools to stop blocking social networking sites. Crime reporters in Mexico face deadly peril. The Society…
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Guilt
“If I miss writing a day, ‘cause I write every day, Sunday, holidays, birthdays, deaths, everything, I write. About 500 words. And, if I don’t do it, I feel very, very, very guilty. […] But if I write, and even…