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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Morning Coffee
Frank Miller’s Charlie Brown (page 1, page 2). Dream project: redesign Vladimir Nabokov’s book covers. The fall of the Iron Curtain, in pictures. Donald Barthelme’s recommended reading list. (via kottke.org) A defense of jaywalking.
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Hate to Be Alone
The Rumpus and Wholphin present: Hate To Be Alone With Tamim Ansary, author of Destiny Disrupted, Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks, Melanie Gideon, author of The Slippery Year, Chelsea Martin, author of Everything Was Fine Until…
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Drying Out
“‘Listen, Truman,’ [John Cheever] told Truman Capote. ‘It’s the most terrible, glum place you can conceivably imagine. It’s really really, really grim. But I did come out of there sober.” Tom Shone’s “When Novelists Sober Up.” (via @Weegee)
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“Story of a Book Cover”
“[…] but I was worried that there was something else out there that we hadn’t thought of.” Ethan Watters, author of Urban Tribes, discusses his experiences choosing a cover for his new book, Crazy Like Us. The post includes images…
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“C-A-P-P-U-C-C-I-N-O”
Rumpus New York Bureau Chief Rozalia Jovanovic has published a subjective account of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses‘ spelling bee: “James Frey, Ben Greenman and Maira Kalman Spell Some Words.” Also, if you haven’t done so already, you…
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Random Media Notes
Why turn your blog back into a printed book? “Blog Bound” “Visit 200 web pages in a day, see on average 490,000 words; War and Peace was only 460,000 words.” The state of the link economy. Punches get thrown in…