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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Good News
As BookExpo America launches “independent booksellers are enjoying a pleasant surprise: Membership is up.” To be fair, the increase is small (“from 1,401 a year ago to 1,410”), but the teensy positive bump is “a deluge in comparison to the…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #34
Doug, I’m sweating and having trouble breathing. A what? Don’t be so melodramatic. If anything it’s a Big Mac attack. Be a pal and go get me the cure, yeah? And a strawberry shake while you’re at it. More.
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Annals of Advertising: Here’s the Party Freak
(via Swishy Kids) More from the annals of advertising.
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Each morning I pack drift around my tongue
“The peculiarities of polar exploration are rich with distinctive details and she uses them to great effect.” Jennifer Jefferson reviews Elizabeth Bradfield’s second collection of poems, Approaching Ice.
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More Bad News for Facebook
“In a seemingly never-ending string of damaging disclosures about its inattention to users’ privacy concerns, the social-media site Facebook has reportedly been releasing user data to ad companies that hadn’t even asked to see it.” Looks like more issues for…
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“Know that you won’t be a different person when you get a book deal.”
“It is not a race. Okay? I’m going to repeat that because it is so, so important: It is not a race. It does not matter what age you are published at.” Young adult author Steph Bowe, who scored her…
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“Many authors have waited their whole lives for a nod from the gray lady.”
“My view is very much eastern, very much old school, where a book review from the Times was the only sure sign that an author had arrived. But maybe it’s time to rethink that, and this rethinking has been long…
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Musical Prose and Multiple Perspectives
“It is a family saga of mothers and daughters; a deconstruction of the Little-House-on-the-Veldt romanticism in which noble white settlers tame a hostile land; a massive, wrenching catalog of illness (physical and metaphysical); and a poetic exploration of control and…
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Swinging in China
“In private, the professor, Ma Yaohai, 53, led a life that became intolerable to Chinese authorities: for the past six years, he was a member of informal swingers clubs that practiced group sex and partner swapping. In online chat rooms,…
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Tune of the Day
Artists: The Size Queens Song: “Twenty Minutes” [We won’t lie, we really love this song and The Size Queens]