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Isaac Fitzgerald
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“Under the Influence”
“Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) Hot tea and sherry “Raymond Chandler, The Blue Dahlia (1946) Gimlets and vitamin shots “Honoré de Balzac, La Comédie humaine (1829-1848) Coffee “Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries (1978) Heroin” Laphams Quearterly…
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Library of Congress to Collect All Tweets
“Library to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive — ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006! Details to follow.” The message above was tweeted this morning by @librarycongress, the The Library of Congress‘s official Twitter account. So what does this mean? As…
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Loud Libraries
Yesterday we mentioned that it’s National Library Week, a time to celebrate all things bibliotheca. But author Sung J. Woo is using the week in a more somber way, to mourn the loss of silence at local libraries. Woo states…
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The Journalist and the Autobiography
“Memory is not a journalist’s tool. Memory glimmers and hints, but shows nothing sharply or clearly. Memory does not narrate or render character. Memory has no regard for the reader. If an autobiography is to be even minimally readable, the…
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More Bolaño
“I’ll tell you everything, naturally.” The New Yorker has posted “Prefiguration of Lalo Cura,” a short story by Roberto Bolaño, online. Enjoy. (via PW)
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“It’s amazing how much human nature hasn’t really changed all that much.”
The Wall Street Journal takes a look at “Twitter Updates, the 18th Century Edition.” Apparently, before the late 1800s, “diaries weren’t considered private or introspective. Instead, people wrote semi-public diaries that were often shared among faraway family members and others.”…