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Isaac Fitzgerald
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“What does a science fiction writer know about?”
“I can’t claim to be an authority on anything, but I can honestly say that certain matters absolutely fascinate me, and that I write about them all the time. The two basic topics which fascinate me are “What is reality?”…
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Random Media Notes
“The First Rule of J-School Is You Don’t Talk About J-School Debt” Writer Alex Grossman gets busted for impersonating Sarah Palin on Facebook. General Electric calls Bill O’Reilly report “irresponsible and maliciously false.” Internet publishers and bloggers say no to…
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Guerrilla Distribution
“The glory days of independent film, when hot young directors like Steven Soderbergh and Mr. Tarantino had studio executives tangled in fierce bidding wars at Sundance and other celebrity-studded festivals, are now barely a speck in the rearview mirror. And…
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Random Media Notes
AP journalists wounded in Afghanistan. A laid off Time Inc. staffer plans to launch an “online regional news network” serving the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn. (via Mediabistro) LA Times and Chicago Tribune combine national sports beats. VIBE Magazine…
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A Reaction Sauce
Yesterday we linked to Malcolm Gladwell‘s most recent New Yorker essay, “The Courthouse Ring,” in which Gladwell discusses Atticus Finch, Alabama Governer “Big Jim” Folsom, race, and “the limits of Southern liberalism.” Well over at The Millions Garth Risk Hallberg…
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Afghanistan Rocks the Vote
We’re not ones to write about pop stars, but NPR is reporting that Afghan “musical hero” Farhad Darya is performing numerous free concerts “to encourage his countrymen to vote in the upcoming presidential election.” On Tuesday night Darya’s show in…
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The Juggalo Gathering 2009
“It’s a Newport! You want the rest? Have it! Have the rest!” See also the 2009 Juggalo Gathering Infomercial.
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“Edmund Wilson Regrets That It Is Impossible For Him To:”
Writer and famed literary critic Edmund Wilson wasn’t a fan of giving interviews, doing any kind of editorial work, reading manuscripts, and a number of other things according to a printed response to “a student group asking him to do…