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Kailyn McCord
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Fabricated
In a truly modern media scandal, Tommaso Debenedetti (of the esteemed Italian Debenedetti) literary family has been publishing fake interviews in Il Piccolo magazine with the likes of Phillip Roth, John Grisham, and Gore Vidal. Contacting many of Debenedetti’s subjects…
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Catching Up with Jack Matthews
Type the name “Jack Matthews” into Wikipedia and it will take you to the profile of a Welsh rugby player, now retired. The Jack Matthews recently interviewed on TeleRead, however, has never seen the underside of a scrum. He’s an…
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Your Personal Clichés
Clichés are, by definition, old hat, but what if there’s a subtler version of the oh-so-enticing little literary buggers? Blogging for the Guardian, Peter Robbins pontificates on his own personal clichés, and how (although they may not realize it), many…
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Damned If You Do, Panned If You Don’t?
In light of the recent Orange Prize short list, Jojo Moyes ruminates on the split themes of modern women’s fiction. Somewhat dark, serious subject matter such as Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible seems to dominate the field of formal literary…
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Ad Blocking
With the days of frantically clicking away pop ups behind us, ad-blocking software may seem like the perfect way to view your favorite sites in peace. And yet, as Ken Fisher explains, this software may be hurting your favorite blogs,…
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DIY Lit
As the term “self-publishing” became more common in the vernacular, the prospect of DIY literature was seen as godsend, bridging the gap between writer and reader, creating a corporate publisher-free utopia. And yet in her article “Self-Publishing, Author Services Open…
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Thousands of Authors Opt-out of Google Book Plan
Digitized books, whether they be in kindle form or otherwise, are more than just a fad, and although Google Books is growing by the day, many authors have recently chosen to opt-out of Google’s ever-expanding digital library. The dissenting authors…
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Kailyn McCord: The Last Book I Loved, The Ticking Is the Bomb
An old professor from college writes me and asks for my snail mail address. It isn’t such a strange request – we have developed a kind of friendship since I graduated. I babysit his daughter on occasion; we meet at…