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Isaac Fitzgerald
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“New York City Judge Rejects Google Books Deal”
“Saying Google Inc. had overstretched, a federal judge on Tuesday rejected a deal between the giant search engine and lawyers for authors and publishers that would have let the company make money presiding over the world’s largest digital library.” Big…
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Other People We Reviewed
Don’t miss Bracha Goykadosh’s review of Emma Straub’s Other People We Married in the Rumpus Books section.
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Which Bay Area Reading Event Is Right For You?
Rumpus contributor Evan Karp and Rumpus Comics artist Susie Cagle have joined forces to create “The Bay Citizen’s Guide to San Francisco’s Literary Readings,” a very fun choose-your-own-adventure-style app that will help you select which Bay Area lit event is…
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Goodreads
Quill & Quire talks with Patrick Brown, community manager of the popular social book reviewing site Goodreads. (via PW)
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A Very Good Point
Sam Biddle argues that “Facebook is AOLifying the Internet,” and explains why “that sucks.”
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Grid Growth
“In 1811, John Randel created a proposed street grid of Manhattan.” Now, thanks to a fun interactive map from the New York Times, you can compare Randel’s map “along with other historic information,” to the Manhattan we know today.
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Happy Fear and Loathing Day
“Forty years ago today, on March 21, 1971, Hunter S. Thompson and a Chicano activist attorney named Oscar Zeta Acosta drove from Los Angeles to Las Vegas to talk over an article Thompson was writing about the barrios of East…
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Tits and Sass
“We come from different backgrounds and locations, work as strippers, porn performers, pro-dommes, prostitutes, and have a love of ripping apart stereotypes. This is our space for calling out pop culture fails, celebrating sex worker culture, and talking shop.” It…
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“Literary Stature”
A very cool graphic from 1906 showing the “comparative popularity of British novelists at the end of the 19th century.” (via FlowingData)