Hauntings in the Kingdom of Money: Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel
There is an admiration, here, of the transitory soul.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Next Unicorn
My job was to help people suspend disbelief.
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I Am the Ignition
I don’t believe in redemption stories.
...moreThe Worst Slush Pile
Until recently in Romania, prisoners could reduce their sentences by thirty days for each “book of scientific value” they wrote while behind bars. Now one man, who went to prison for fraud, is being accused of plagiarism by a woman who says one of the books he wrote reads eerily like her dissertation. He may not be […]
...moreBlind Lie
Over at The New Republic, Hanna Rosin pens a piece on her buddy, Stephen Glass—former Republic colleague, one-time prodigy, and probably the most lucrative fabricator in recent journalistic history: I didn’t know when he called me that he’d made up nearly all of the bizarre and amazing stories, that he was the perpetrator of probably the […]
...moreAcademia’s Biggest Fraud Comes Clean
What happens when you put a well-regarded social psychologist fixated on order in an academic system that rewards breakthrough experiments over failed ones? You get one of the biggest con jobs in academic history. The New York Times Magazine profiles Diederik Stapel, whose experiments on behavioral issues like racism and greed were completely faked.
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