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Isaac Fitzgerald
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With All Due Respect to Cormac McCarthy
“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold and the ditch he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Not in a weird way.” The Millions brings you “The Road: A Comedic Translation.”
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Random Media Notes
New York Times posts 35.6 million dollar loss (apparently that’s good news). Two deals were made yesterday that could finally mean cash for Twitter. Should needy newspapers accept donations? Analyst finds out through Google Alert that Fox News fired him.…
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Olive or Twist?
“Deus Ex Machina + Fantasy = Eagles” A surprise ending cheat sheet from the webcomic Dresden Codak: “42 Essential Third-Act Twists For Writers.” (via Boing Boing)
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Stephanie Johnson’s Microfiction
“This book is like a photo album made of pictures collected at random from people on a busy street; each story is a single moment that comes from a different place, time, and gender-perspective, and each is narrated closely, creating…
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Health Care Links
“Lay of the Land,” a look at where the health care debate is right now. “Reid: I’m Discussing the Public Option With Democrats and Republicans” “If a new tax is passed and no one actually pays it, can it fund…
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‘Why have novelists ceded their ground to science?’
“The last dozen years or so have seen the emergence of a new strain within the Anglo-American novel. What has been variously referred to as the novel of consciousness or the psychological or confessional novel—the novel, at any rate, about…
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Random Media Notes
“New York Times to Layoff 100 Newsroom Staffers” “Glamour, Wired Take Latest Condé Hits” (via MediaBistro) The Washington Post has been redesigned. Amy Hertz, HuffPo’s new books section editor, says “This is NOT a book review section.” Barnes and Noble…