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Sam Riley
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LA Libraries are Back
The entirety of LA’s 73 public libraries will be running in full force—the first time this kind of operational simultaneity has happened since August 2010, when budget cuts enforced some immediate cutbacks. You can thank Measure L, the ballot which…
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Wendi Murdoch and her Chick-Lit Potential
The biography of Wendi Murdoch, is apparently a chick-lit story waiting to happen. Defending her husband from the fierce pie flinging attack that happened two days ago in London, she’s cemented a fan-base and has thus become somewhat of a…
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Rombes Reviews Tao Lin and Megan Boyle Film
Our very own film connoisseur, Nick Rombes, reviews Tao Lin and Megan Boyle’s DIY film, Bebe Zeva, which was entirely filmed on a MacBook. The film revolves around a 17 year-old fashion blogger. “…a film like Bebe Zeva is a…
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Tweetin, Not Twitchin
What’s in a name? For companies like twitter, a lot of potential profits and some OED support. These are the reasons we’re not jittering or twitching, which were both potential candidates for the company’s name. You can follow the trajectory…
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22 Suggestions
HTMLGiant has 22 bits of submission-based knowledge that you can learn from/identify with, etc. No matter what your relation to submitting and publishing is, this list needs to be forwarded to the universe. This list will assuage the stress of…
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On SlutWalks
“This fall will mark the 20th anniversary of Anita Hill’s testimony before Congress about the sexual harassment she experienced while working for Clarence Thomas. Though Hill offered only her own narrative about the behavior she witnessed, her story helped other…
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Twain in Pictures
Mark Twain’s humor is post-age. His children’s book, Advice to Little Girls was published in 1865 and was a comedic gem amongst the moralizing, heavy-on-the-role-models books of the genre. His story is recast as a slideshow of illustrations by the…
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A Private Life for the Memoirist
There are those writers that relinquish their private lives to the world, choosing to share the honesty of experience, which is often difficult for those family members and friends who were part of this experience. Changed names and confrontation come…
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Poetry Series Suspended
UC California Press is facing cutbacks, and their New California Poetry series is taking the hit. The series, because each title sells only around 1,000 copies, has been suspended. Even after the semi-recent publication of The Autobiography of Mark Twain,…
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Open Knowledge vs. US Government
Aaron Swartz, former Demand Progress Executive Director, political activist and Cambridge Web Entrepreneur, was arrested for illegally downloading over 4 million articles from the nonprofit subscription-based internet archive, JSTOR. Swartz’s activism is directed towards the “free flow of information,” and…
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Authors on Promotional Book Tours
This is what it’s like on the other side of the promotional book tour. As readers are amused by succumbing to the hype, skimming the interviews, gazing at the pictures and mentioning to their literary peers the impending release of…