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Kailyn McCord

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Kailyn McCord lives, writes, and works behind the scenes in Portland, Oregon.
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Lucas Adams Illustrates a Note from Australia #2

  • Kailyn McCord
  • September 13, 2010
In Sydney, everyone runs. Actually everyone. We didn’t walk a block that first day without seeing someone running.
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Lucas Adams Illustrates a Note from Australia #1

  • Kailyn McCord
  • September 8, 2010
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…
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Mind the Gap

  • Kailyn McCord
  • September 8, 2010
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…
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Thrive

  • Kailyn McCord
  • September 7, 2010
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…
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Beige Is the New Black

  • Kailyn McCord
  • June 4, 2010
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…
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“Manual for a Productive Everyday Life”

  • Kailyn McCord
  • June 2, 2010
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!…
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iPirates

  • Kailyn McCord
  • May 20, 2010
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…
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The Next Big Hit

  • Kailyn McCord
  • April 21, 2010
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…
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  • Features & Reviews

Book Version Bonanza

  • Kailyn McCord
  • April 16, 2010
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…
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The Money in Fonts

  • Kailyn McCord
  • April 13, 2010
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…
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Wherefore Art Thou @Romeo?

  • Kailyn McCord
  • April 13, 2010
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,…
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The Ethicist and the eBook

  • Kailyn McCord
  • April 11, 2010
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…
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