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Kailyn McCord

  • Lucas Adams Illustrates a Note from Australia #2

    In Sydney, everyone runs. Actually everyone. We didn’t walk a block that first day without seeing someone running.

  • Lucas Adams Illustrates a Note from Australia #1

    There was a paper American flag taped to the door, and a panel missing by the knob, and so when no one answered, we let ourselves in. Fixed gear bikes lined the hallway and in the living room cigarette smoke…

  • Mind the Gap

    From a tiff that begun on Twitter to the calling out of the New York Times Book Review, literary circles are questioning the how gender affects not just authorship, but how it may change the very genre of a given…

  • Thrive

    Although adult resource centers are nothing new, The Thrive project (based in rural Massachusetts) is taking another look at how these centers function, and what exactly they function for. Thrive encourages adults to not simply live life, but enjoy and…

  • Beige Is the New Black

    Cruising along the information super highway, fashion often dictates that the faster, the sleeker, and the more high-tech the better. And so it’s nice to know the somewhere the interwebs someone has dedicated a small patch of real-estate to the…

  • “Manual for a Productive Everyday Life”

    Ever think that your day-to-day hum drum simply isn’t productive enough? Do you feel bogged down by a sense of overall disappointment or lethargy? Well we’ve got answers for you! In her latest project, our own Rozalia Jovanovic gave out…

  • iPirates

    As the iPad hits the million mark for its first month of sales, David Carnoy looks back at Apple’s first portable product, the iPod, and the similar paths the two may take in the world of copyright piracy. Carnoy doesn’t…

  • The Next Big Hit

    Literary magazines, once the backbone, the pulse, and other anatomically analogous words of the American fiction world, have taken a hit in subscriptions in recent decades. Does this mean the death of fiction as we know it, or simply a…

  • Book Version Bonanza

    Over the decades, the world has upgraded from iron cast printing press to ink jet printers, and yet the complexities of publishing have recently shifted from the how to the how many in terms of the different mediums a single…

  • The Money in Fonts

    Bummed about shelling out for printer cartridge after printer cartridge? Tired of submitting essays and papers, only to find that the breaking of your bank outweighs the heartbreak of oh so many rejection letters? Well the University of Wisconsin has…

  • Wherefore Art Thou @Romeo?

    Shakespeare is the classic and timeless example of dramatic excellence, and once again in this modern age it is being put to the test. In a five week real-time performance, ‘ol Bill’s Romeo and Juliet is going to be played…

  • The Ethicist and the eBook

    With publishers delaying e-book releases to encourage hardcover, real-book sales, what is the new and hip Kindle consumer to do? What if you buy the hardcover, and then pirate an early electronic copy for free? Are publishing companies single handedly…