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Birth Story
This is the part of the birth story when the woman is supposed to tap into the primal strength of her ancestors, a pool with a hundred thousand years of depth…
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Warning: Do Not Promote Reading
File this under the “What, Really?” section of your daily newspaper: a library aide has been fired for the promotion of reading. In upstate New York, library aide Lita Casey was fired because she voiced her opinion on a controversial…
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Identity and Dislocation, According to Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel The Lowland explores the immigrant experience of transitioning from South Asian culture to a very different culture in the United States. Writing for Saoln, Daniel D’Addario calls it a “culmination of a career-long examination of dislocation.”…
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Apple: Home to iTherapy
In a time when the young and old, the technophiles and the technophobic flood Apple stores, an employee writing under the pseudonym of J.K. Appleseed seeks to give readers a glimpse into the lives of those who work behind the…
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It’s Banned Book Week!
It is that wonderful time of year when a scent of the forbidden fills the air. It is banned book week and the LA Times has assembled a gallery of banned and challenged books! Now enjoy free speech and read…
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Seeking: Determination and Stamina
In his essay “Determination and Stamina,” novelist Leonard Chang offers his take on what’s necessary to be a successful author. Rather than succeed by talent alone, he believes authors must be willing to accept criticism, dust themselves off after rejection, and…
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up
Growing up, I learned to play the piano from a hunchbacked nun at a local, catholic university. After my lesson was over, after she scowled at my clumsy fingers and scrawled the word “practice” over and over again in the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Science tackles the important questions: why do you want to eat babies? Monkeys are whispering (probably about you and your baby eating). What New York needs is garbage tubes. Let’s class things up with 19th century German botanical drawings. That…
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Coming Out, Again and Again, in 27 Easy Steps
1. Pretend it’s okay that your birth certificate labels you as female. You know perfectly well you’re not.
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Art and Money and Muppets
Because it taught children across the country, Henson became a household name, and through Sesame Street toys, Henson became a millionaire….However, licensing toys, to Henson, felt like selling out. The cage-match-to-the-death between art and business can be brutal, but Muppet-master Jim Henson…
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Ask Your Favorite Writers Anything
Social news site Reddit doesn’t have a reputation as the most literary place on the Internet, but its AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) subreddit can be a valuable way to connect authors and readers—sort of like a huge version of our…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #200
NOTHING ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing nothing.