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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Find Out What Facebook Publishes About You and Your Friends
There’s a new online tool available thanks to developer Ka-Ping Yee that answers one simple but important question: “What does Facebook publish about you and your friends?” While the tool is helpful, it isn’t exactly straight forward. Luckily the good…
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In Protest of SB1070
“That people should be legally required to show proof of citizenship is similar to the antebellum mandate that black people produce ‘free papers’ proving themselves not to be slaves. It recalls the pass system under South Africa’s apartheid. Sadly, visiting…
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LitTweets
“Twitter allows you to discuss books and authors with other fans online without having to set up a blog or invent some dodgy chat room identity. If you “follow” the right people (tip: start by copying who your favorite authors…
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n+Internet
Literary magazine n+1 is now online. The website will be “updated with new, usually web-only content at least once weekly.”
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New York and San Francisco Readers
Looking for something to do tonight? Well don’t forget to check out Notable New York and Notable San Francisco throughout the week for fun events in your city. For example, tonight in NYC? “Readings from Around the Globe: Opening Night…
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Enforcing Etiquette on Twitter?
“A small but vocal subculture has emerged on Twitter of grammar and taste vigilantes who spend their time policing other people’s tweets — celebrities and nobodies alike. These are people who build their own algorithms to sniff out Twitter messages…
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Nick Lantz Gets Supersized
Don’t miss today’s Supersized Rumpus Combo featuring an interview with Nick Lantz, a review of his books, We Don’t Know, We Don’t Know and The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbor’s House, plus a new original poem: “How to Dance When…
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“Papers, please.”
Arizona News Links #2A roundup of articles related to Arizona’s new draconian immigration law. A simple question: Is this even constitutional? Rachel Maddow discusses the “racist roots” and people behind the new law. “Arizona Sheriff Says He Won’t Enforce New ‘Racist’ Anti-Immigration Law.”…
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The Passing of an “Angry Young Man”
Alan Sillitoe, whose “novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and short story “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” (1959) were regarded as groundbreaking in their portrayals of the British working class,” passed away on April 25. (via The…
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LATFoB
Wondering how things went at the LA Times Festival of Books? Well, the LA Times‘ very own Jacket Copy has you covered.