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Seth Fischer
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Cheez Doodles
“These are financially troubled times for our profession … — times that test our character — and it is disheartening to learn that journalism schools are responding to this challenge by urging their students to market themselves like Cheez Doodles.”…
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Tweet Not Lest Ye Be Judged
“If you have a Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn account, you are already being judged — or will be soon. Companies with names like Klout, PeerIndex and Twitter Grader are in the process of scoring millions, eventually billions, of people on their level of influence…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
A good morning to you! Apparently one of the best ways to get caught cheating is to use a semicolon correctly. (via) Also, you should probably know that Aldous Huxley went all mescaline in the southern California desert once. It’s…
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Philip K. Dick’s Prose
“Paradoxically, plot summary can be exactly the opposite of what we usually assume it is: reductive. What’s really reductive is excerpting a writer’s nice sentence on a blog. Thinking in terms of plot summary when praising a novel by Philip…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
I moved to LA for the summer two days ago from San Francisco, and so far, this place is about as surreal as everyone told me it’d be. I swear to God I keep seeing Jeff Bridges, and even though…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
It’s Sunday again, that day where you get to see what Rumpus Books has been up to this week, all in one handy little roundup.
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Here’s more book stuff for all you book nerds. Enjoy! This is what Jeffrey Eugenides is reading this summer. “People were creating “art” in an attempt to save lives. That’s beautiful. It’s unlikely that experimental writing is going to make…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Sunday’s the day to catch up with Rumpus Books. Click “more,” take a peek, and find something good to read.