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Being Your Own Publisher
We all know that self-publishing is no longer limited to vanity projects thanks to new technologies, but this article gives an excellent lay of the land for those of you who are considering going it alone. (via Rodes Fishburne) Update:…
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Annals of Advertising: 低燃費少女ハイジ
We’re pretty sure the blond girl is supposed to be Heidi, Girl of the Alps… not that knowing that clears anything up. More from the annals of advertising.
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Beige Is the New Black
Cruising along the information super highway, fashion often dictates that the faster, the sleeker, and the more high-tech the better. And so it’s nice to know the somewhere the interwebs someone has dedicated a small patch of real-estate to the…
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Ten Over 80
Ward Six is proud to announce its TEN OVER 80: WRITERS TO GO BACK AND READ list. All the following writers will turn 80 or more this year, and all have been kicking ass for longer than we have been…
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The Indistinct Fuzz of a General Rain
World Enough is, despite the sometimes soft dulled-razor language, an incredibly smart, idea-driven book, and the in-charge idea and/or force seems to be America, viewed both from within the country and elsewhere.
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Birds Caught in the Oil
“AP Photographer Charlie Riedel filed the following images of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island. As BP engineers continue their efforts to cap the underwater flow of oil, landfall is becoming…
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Morning Coffee
Post-monument at the International Sculpture Biennale. This is a story about the flotation dynamics of giraffes. Being a scientist is AWESOME. Via @rosieate. Inhabitat looks into this year’s awesome World Cup stadium. The Soviet Lord of the Rings. And now…
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Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Tracey Wigfield
[L]et me introduce my former student Tracey Wigfield, who is now a writer for the television program 30 Rock. I am so happy for Tracey that I am now weeping inconsolably.
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Annals of Advertising: “A Man’s Land” (But Also Cartoon Bears)
Those were the days, back when you could use cartoon bears to sell beer. More from the annals of advertising.
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June is Novella Month
How’s this for a definition of novella: “a novella, I think, looks through the narrow lens of a short story, and with a short story’s intense focus, at a small, precise part of the world, but it treats what’s within that…
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Bowden On Juárez
“The way I was trained, reporters went toward the story, just as firemen rush toward the fire. It is a duty. As it happens, I am a coward and would rather write about a bird or a tree. But, I…