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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Make a Movie with Franco
Do you want a chance to star in a short film directed by, and in collaboration with, James Franco? Do you have $25? Most importantly, do you care about children? Click here to learn more.
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Blogger Fired for Sexy Site
“We simply cannot risk any possible link between our mission and the sort of photos and material that you openly share with the online public. While I know you are a good worker and an intelligent person, I hope you…
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The Actual Book vs. The Imagined Book
“An unread book is all possible stories. It contains all possible characters, styles, genres, turns of phrase, metaphors, speech patterns, and profound life-changing revelations. An unread book exists only in the primordial soup of your imagination, and there it can…
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DFW Profile from 1996
“In the online expanse of Wallace fans, I couldn’t find even a citation—much less a copy—of this profile. So, with the help of Yale’s ILL division, I tracked it down.” Rumpus contributor Craig Fehrman discusses, and reposts in its entirety,…
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#1B1T
“One Book, One Twitter” (or #1b1t), started by Jeff Howe (@CrowdSourcing) in an attempt to create the world’s largest book club, has chosen Neil Gaiman’s American Gods as its first assigned book. Want in? Join the group here.
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“Blood has its own syntax.”
“McKay reminds us that every language is a unique translation of a combination of desire and thought, both of which have complicated, individual histories.” Barbara Berman reviews Becka Mara McKay’s A Meteorologist in the Promised Land.
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“I always had a day job.”
“Some people don’t have a day job, and that makes them hustle more and they get on track, but that’s such a risky thing to do. I guess I didn’t have the courage to do that right away, and I…
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Google to Start Selling eBooks
In “late June or July,” according to the Wall Street Journal, Google will join the eBook fray along with Amazon, Apple, and Barnes & Noble . Find out more about the online giant’s sales strategy here.