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Lauren O’Neal
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Re-Live Litquake’s digi.lit Conference
If you couldn’t make it to Litquake’s digi.lit conference, never fear—you can listen to Laura Miller’s keynote address here. Though the conference focused on digital publishing, the Salon writer talks just as much about traditional publishing and how it has given…
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The Last City I Loved: Austin
I was new to Austin and to adulthood, and if adulthood meant dressing up in pencil skirts and suffering, well, I’d pretend that was as glamorous as it looked in old movies. I didn’t care. I loved it. I’d kiss…
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Helpful Hints for Emerging Writers
Being the most talented writer doesn’t necessarily translate into publishing success, which really comes from methodical and consistent work rather than raw talent. Read this and other advice for emerging writers at the Missouri Review‘s blog. Bonus: The post’s author, Michael…
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Amazon Purchases Washington Post
What exactly does it mean that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has purchased the Washington Post?
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RIP Greg Peters
Louisiana writer and cartoonist Greg Peters passed away last week at age 50. His long-running subversive comic strips Suspect Device and Snake Oil, forerunners to strips like Get Your War On, satirized politics and politicians, especially in Louisiana. Or, in Peters’s own words,…
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“This Other Reality Exists”
Our girl Elissa Bassist lays some hella smart analysis on Orange is the New Black for Medium: To see what’s been missing in popular culture is to see how comprehensive and refined the brainwashing has become….the number/diversity of women on-screen, the depth/complexity…
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African Literature in African Languages
The BBC’s Gavin Esler conducted a brief but thought-provoking interview with Kenyan author Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. Whereas Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie declares she has “taken ownership of English,” Thiong’o balks at the idea of enriching only English-language literature at the expense of…
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Neil Gaiman Reads From Latest Novel
Listen to Neil Gaiman read from his latest novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane (his first book meant for adult readers that he’s written in eight years). He also answers audience questions about this book and others, to…
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Why Clowns Freak Us Out So Bad
If you find clowns more sinister than hilarious, you’re in good company. Clowning has long been associated with a frisson of tragedy or fear, since way before It or John Wayne Gacy. Smithsonian has an intriguing history of the art of…
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A Reader’s Guide to YA Novels
Upworthy has an exhaustive (but not at all exhausting) list of young-adult books besides the Harry Potter series for the teenager in your life (or you—no judgment!). Historical fiction (The Book Thief, Island of the Blue Dolphins), utopian/dystopian fiction (The Giver, The House…
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The Card Catalog Is Mightier than the Sword
Rumpus readers already know librarians are heroes, but it’s nice to see other people get it too. Here’s io9’s list of 20 heroic librarians who save the world in books, comics, TV, and film. From Rachel Weisz’s Evie Carnahan in…
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We Love You Back, Flavorwire!
We’re psyched to see we made it onto Flavorwire’s list of 25 Best Websites for Literature Lovers, especially because we were labeled “the best of the West”! Labels are always better when they rhyme. Congrats to all the other folks…