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It Was a Stressful, Neurotic Ordeal to Burn

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 21, 2013
How did Rumpus contributor and noted word lover Michele Filgate become that notorious enemy of teachers, librarians, and all right-minded free-thinkers: a book burner? Well, you’ll have to read her whole explanation.…
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Bradley Manning Receives 35-Year Prison Sentence

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 21, 2013
Bradley Manning, the whistleblower who leaked military documents to WikiLeaks, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. As the Atlantic points out, this sentence “far exceeds any punishments related to…
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How Accurate Is Orange Is the New Black?

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 21, 2013
We’ve blogged a bit about Orange is the New Black from storytelling and feminist angles, but what do real-life women who have been to prison think about the show? According to…
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Dave Eggers Gets Google-y Eyed

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 21, 2013
Dave Eggers’s upcoming novel The Circle is about a woman whose life takes a turn for the sinister after she starts work at “the world’s most powerful internet company” with its “towering…
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Bookshelfies: Social Media for Book Nerds

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 21, 2013
Bookshelves + selfies = bookshelfies! That’s the simple and delightful concept behind the Bookshelfies Tumblr started by our very own Isaac Fitzgerald along with Believer editor Max Fenton. Click through…
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Cool SXSW Panel Needs Votes

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 21, 2013
Three of our favorite publications—the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Toast, and the New Inquiry—are joining forces to create a SXSW panel. Titled “Rebooting Cultural Criticism on the Web,” the panel…
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“Typos on the Internet”

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 21, 2013
Once you train yourself to spot errors, you can’t not spot them….You notice typos in novels, missing words in other magazines, incorrect punctuation on billboards. You have nightmares that your…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

  • Dan Weiss
  • August 21, 2013
Today in animals being amazing: birds understand speed limits. Coffee is bad for you again (if you are under 55) (I guess). Fill the Silence is your Tumblr of the…
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RIP Elmore Leonard

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 20, 2013
Masterful crime novelist Elmore Leonard has passed away at age 87 after a stroke. Leonard published 45 novels during his prolific career, including several that were adapted into movies and…
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Want to Publish a Book? Here’s How

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 20, 2013
It’s quirkily written with lots of jokes, but don’t let that fool you: Delilah S. Dawson’s Terrible Minds guest post, “25 Steps to Being a Traditionally Published Author: Lazy Bastard…
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Cracks in the Foundation of the Ivory Tower

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 20, 2013
If the current economic state of academia seems grim, well, it is. In an essay for Dissent, Claire Goldstene plumbs the ins and outs of student-loan debt, the exploitation of adjunct…
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Vonnegut and the Shapes of Stories

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 20, 2013
As Jerome Stern showed with his writing guide Making Shapely Fiction, stories have shapes. Kurt Vonnegut thought so too, and, inspired by the similarities between the profiles of the New Testament and…
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