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INHERITANCE IN THE AGE OF THE E-BOOK
“Among all the gifts of the electronic age, one of the most paradoxical might be to illuminate something we are beginning to trade away: the particular history, visible and invisible, that can be passed down through the vessel of an…
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Car Talk Retirement
Tom and Ray, NPR’s Car Talk brothers, have announced that they’re retiring come October. The good news is there will continue to be a weekly program pulled from the archives. “But to our fans, don’t be sad. We’ve managed to…
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Cabinet of Wonders
John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders blends performances by musicians, authors and comedians into an hour-long variety show recorded live at New York’s City Winery. The first two episodes are already up, and the fifth episode will feature Rumpus columnist…
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Music Man Murray
This weekend brought the television premiere of Richard Parks’ awarding-winning short film Music Man Murray, which documents 88 year-old Murray Gershenz “as he struggles to find a buyer for the hundreds of thousands of records in his LA store.” For…
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“Publishing: Adapt or Die”
On the Media’s annual publishing industry episode covers a lot of ground with segments on this year’s Pulitzer fiction snub, e-books and changing reader behavior, fears of an Amazonian monopoly, copyright concerns, and more.
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“Newspoet” Kick-off
NPR’s All Things Considered is starting a monthly project that brings poets into the newsroom before unleashing them to write a poem “reflecting on the day’s news.” Their inaugural poet is Rumpus Poetry Book Club author Tracy K. Smith. You…
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The Moment
Smith Magazine‘s THE MOMENT: Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists Famous & Obscure is “a collection of and moving personal pieces about key instances – a moment of opportunity, serendipity, calamity, or chaos – that have had…
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Novel Names
Looking forward to giving your manuscript a name at the end of NaNoWriMo? This fill-in-the-blank guide to naming your first novel may help. Create the perfect title for “If Your First Novel Will Be A Busted Romance;” “If Your First…
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Science Fiction, Fantasy Interactive Guide
Over the summer, NPR solicited listener nominations and votes to compile a giant list of the Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books. Then SF signal took it a step further by creating an intricate flowchart based on that list. And then,…
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An Enduring Paradox
Catch-22 turns 50 this year. NPR explores how and why the the novel’s central paradox still resonates with readers—particularly with “a new crop of young people distrustful of their elders. ” “Catch-22 is a concept everyone can understand. That’s why…
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More Seuss!
“The creative vision of author and illustrator Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, introduced fantastic characters into the imaginations of generations of kids. Now, two decades after his death, a new book, The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories,…
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Caffeinated Ladies Fighting Depression
A new study suggests that drinking more than one cup of coffee a day may prevent the onset of depression in women. And the more you drink, the better: “The biggest coffee drinkers saw the largest reduction in risk, according…