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LaToya Jordan
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You Need More Sleep
“Now, new research is showing that sleep also seems to reorganize memories, picking out the emotional details and reconfiguring the memories to help you produce new and creative ideas, according to the authors of an article in Current Directions in…
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Best Outsider Fiction
“When I sat down to write this list, I realized that I would need to define what ‘outsider fiction’ was in the first place, a daunting prospect. I came up with (and then discarded) several definitions that seemed to me…
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Figment Off to a Great Start
Figment, the new website for young adult readers and writers, was launched on December 6th and clocked in 4,000 subscribers on its first day. The site features a blog, forums, and hosts a library of user-submitted writing (my favorite part…
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Absence of Diversity
“The tokens are out there, getting attention by the white reading public, but most black writers are writing for black readers and getting very little attention from mainstream outlets. Segregation is alive and well when it comes to what we…
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Zombies in Higher Education
These aren’t the zombies you see in film: according to three Australian professors, the zombies of higher education are “a listless population of academics, managers, administrators and students, all shuffling to the beat of the corporatist drum.” (via GalleyCat) They’re…
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Artists: Barter for Your Health Care
I am one of the lucky ones: a full-time desk jockey/part-time writer with health insurance. I recently finished up some physical therapy sessions for my right arm; the bill says that for two sessions a week, the actual cost of…
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8 under 18?
I’ve been reading lots of news lately about the literary community celebrating the “unders,” you know, the best 40 under 40, 5 under 35, or 30 under 30. These young writer awards aren’t perfect, but they’re especially not perfect because…
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Video Game Industry Attracts Writers
“‘You want to write a novel? Who’s going to read it? A bunch of people in grad school? Fuck that,’ Mr. Patrick said. ‘Everybody plays video games.’” (via Bookslut)
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Don’t Read and Drive
“A motorist in Chatham was allegedly found reading while driving.” I know the feeling of not wanting to put a good book down. I was almost run over by a bike messenger because I was too busy reading The Glass…
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Men Come First
“…Romeo and Juliet. John, Yoko. See a pattern? We may have come a long way baby, but our female names still typically follow the man’s name.” — Scientific American on a new study showing that when it comes to name…
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A Community of Book Movers
“Nearly 2,000 volunteers lined up on the Akoni Pule Highway on Saturday to form a human chain, so they could pass the thousands of books – or huki puke, in Hawaiian – over a mile and a third down the…