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Emmett Rensin is an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and co-author of Twitterature: The World's Greatest Works In 20 Tweets Or Fewer (Penguin, 2009). He aspires to be a sea captain, but failing this ambition, he has chosen to settle for mastering card magic, penning the Great American Novel, and constructing the perfect Shaggy Dog joke. In his free time, Rensin enjoys coat collection, Richard Nixon enthusiasm, and sandwiches.

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'Twitterature': U Chicago Undergrad Duo Inadvertently End Western Civilization With New Book

Posted January 7, 2010 | 13:26:03 (EST)

CHICAGO: January 7, 2010



After more than three thousand years of ceaseless human progress, Western Civilization reportedly died this week from injuries to its most vital of organs: Literature.

According to highly-placed sources in the usual academic and knee-jerk communities, "Twitterature," a just-published book by two 19-year-old U Chicago...

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Hipster Joins Marines, Wins Purple Heart In Ultimate Act Of Irony

Posted June 1, 2009 | 16:26:46 (EST)

NEW YORK -- In a ceremony at Federal Hall today, U.S. Marine Corp. sergeant and Iraq War veteran Joshua Cohen accepted the Purple Heart in what is being hailed as the ultimate act of hipster irony.

Cohen, a 6'1, 175 lb. Brooklyn-based amateur photographer, says he first got the idea...

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God is My Boyfriend

Posted October 27, 2006 | 20:25:25 (EST)

The release of Sam Harris' latest book, Letter to a Christian Nation, and its climb up the bestseller list, continues to feed the national firestorm surrounding our relationships (or lack thereof) with the Lord Almighty. Everyone seems to have a take on the high and low points of our intimacy...

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