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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Random Media Notes
Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Review are going out of business. Read the internal memo. More info here. Variety erects beta online pay wall. Three top women newspaper editors plan to leave their jobs, leaving only two of the top…
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What Did You Read in 2009?
Want to know what book Jonathan Lethem really enjoyed this year? How about three books that Nick Flynn liked? Dana Goodyear? Jesse Ball? Well you’re in luck, The Millions has begun its “A Year in Reading” series as 2009 comes…
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Social Rumpus
Are you a fan of The Rumpus on Facebook yet? Click here and join us, you will have no regrets. Or at least not many. Twitter more your thing? Click here. You can also get monologues from Rumpus editor Stephen…
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“Does integrity lie in failure?”
“All of Powell’s work is moved along by language: No one else talks to you this way. No one else asks you questions like this. But more brilliant than the sentences are the novel’s variations in rhythm. The questions accelerate…
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Random Media Notes
Google, Washington Post and NY Times team up to create new news tool. “Media Companies See Slower Ad Declines.” Random House restructures the Crown Publishing Group. Dan Abrams, founder of Mediaite, plans to launch three new websites. Google’s eBook expert,…
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Rick Moody (and Others) Talk Online Publishing
“Online publication, to me, is of interest because it’s cheaper and easier to produce, thus emboldening people who want to bring their vision out into the marketplace of ideas. But that doesn’t mean it’s better.” Rumpus columnist Rick Moody answers…
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My Cousin Bernie
Rumpus contributor Joshuah Bearman and (coincidentally) his cousin Sarah have created a game so fun they just had to share it with the internet. My Cousin Bernie started when “Sarah wandered in to Josh’s one day and mixed up two…