Constantly and On Your Own: Talking with Natasha Stagg
Natasha Stagg discusses her debut novel, Surveys, obsession with celebrity, social media, and how she approached writing about something so ephemeral.
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Twitter Can Help You Steer Clear Of Potty Mouths
The Atlantic covers a recent study that uses twitter to analyze where the United State’s most profanity prone individuals reside: “The Ukrainian-based web development firm Vertaline, aiming to answer that question, scanned tweets posted from across 462 specific locations in the U.S. The team then isolated particular phrases from those tweets — one of those phrases being, yep, “fuck […]
...moreLibraries + Sex = The Best Survey In The History Of The World
Bookninja pointed me in the direction of the recently released “1992 Librarians and Sex Survey Results.” Apparently, the Wilson Library Bulletin ran this survey way back when, and then promptly fired its author and destroyed all remaining copies. However, 5000 librarians responded, and now, thanks to the Internet, we get to see the answers! For […]
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