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Salvatore Pane
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“This is what strong families do in crisis: They adapt and roles change.”
Read this powerful essay by Tracy Clark-Flory about her mother’s battle with third stage lung cancer and her father’s attempt to maintain some level of normalcy during the Christmas holidays.
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Help Dean Young
Poet Dean Young needs your help. Afflicted with a degenerative heart condition, Young “needs to get a heart transplant soon, or go to drastic measures like a mechanical external pump.” And surely, we all know this story: Young has health…
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“Fill your hand, you son of a bitch.”
Really informative essay over at The New York Times about Charles Portis, author of True Grit, the novel that inspired the John Wayne classic and the Coen brothers redo. NYT writer Carlo Rotella relays his own person meetings with Portis…
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Killer App: The Novel
Check out this awesome essay from Alexander Chee about his decision to move to e-books and his burgeoning Internet addiction. The Spark Notes version? Chee lives in a cramped New York apartment. Ten more books added to an already massive…
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The End of Music Piracy: Oh Shit It’s the Cops II
First, Laura Miller declared the end of NaNoWriMo. Now, Wired declares the end of music piracy. Citing the phasing out of DRM, the improved sound quality of iTunes downloads, the beefed up music library, and even a plea to individual…
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“The Sum of All Books Present in the Shared Human Consciousness”
Check out The New York Journal of Books where Joseph Mackin delivers a treatise on the book review. What is the purpose of the book review anyway? Do they serve to introduce the general public to another addition to “the…
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Salman Rushdie’s Big Think
“If Saul Bellow wants to write a novel set in Africa he feels free to do so, whereas sometimes if the reverse happens, if a third-world writer wishes to set a novel in Illinois, he might be asked what he…
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Video Games: The Future of Journalism?
Are news video games the next step in the evolution of journalism? According to Ian Bogost and the Georgia Institute of Technology they are. At the New Scientist, Bogost highlights two such games: Burger Tycoon in which players raise cattle…
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Everyone Is Hunting for Identity
Over at Guernica, Sarah Layden interviews the incomparable Aimee Bender about her new novel The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, David Foster Wallace and time capsules. Peep it here.
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The Fight for Erotica
Government censorship can’t happen in America, right? According to writer Marilyn Jaye Lewis, it can. She sheds light on the erotica community’s recent struggle with government censorship and why all writers need to be more conscious of first amendment rights…
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Move Bush’s Book
Remember W.? Our boy’s new memoir, Decision Points, is slated to drop tomorrow, and folks are protesting its release by pledging to subversively move the book to shops’ crime section. What do you say? Want to do some sneaky book-switching…
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National Novel Writing Month:
Oh Shit It’s the Cops!Over on Salon, Laura Miller bashes NaNoWriMo calling the whole endeavor “a waste of time of energy” that proves “that the cultural spaces once dedicated to the selfless art of reading are being taken over by the narcissistic commerce of…