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Michael Jackson: Reflections On The Complexity of Being Human

Janice Taylor | Posted 07.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Alice in Wonderland, Michael Jackson, Plastic Surgery, Human Beings, Janice Taylor, Lewis Carroll, Henry David Thoreau, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Cheshire Cat, Healthy Living, Literature, Living News
Janice Taylor

In this moment of reflection, I offer you some thoughts from some of our most respected and best philosophers, writers and just plain folk that may help us find our way.

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Define "Urban Lit" ...

Charles D. Ellison | Posted 07.24.2009 | Style

Read More: Literature, Urban Policy, Ghettos, Ghetto, American Literature, Black, Reading, African Americans, Urban, Style News
Charles D. Ellison

Rage against the Mullah machine fumes in Iran, economy is wrecked, and health care reform is a rubbery roast of ripped tire on the road to political h...

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Interview With Zoe Heller: 'I End Up Loathing Myself'

Christina Patterson | Posted 07.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Zoe Heller, Notes on a Scandal, The Believers, Interview, Literature, The Independent, Author, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, British, Q&A, Entertainment News
Christina Patterson

This tall, lithe, creature, with toned-as-Michelle-Obama's arms and a living-in-the-Bahamas tan, a creature whose latest internationally bestselling novel has garnered reviews Martin Amis would kill for, can't really mean 'self-loathing,' can she?

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Odd News

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 07.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Chicago Theater, Chicago, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Theater, Neo-Conservatives, Leo Strauss, Neil Simon, Machiavelli, Republicans, Literature, New School, This Is Hell, University of Chicago, Theater Oobleck, Theater-Oobleck, Education, Jewish, Drama, Entertainment News
Jeff Dorchen

Odd News and a new play: watch the preparatory video for Strauss at Midnight by Jeff Dorchen.

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J.D. Salinger's Teaching Advice

Nicolaus Mills | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living

Read More: J. D. Salinger, Literature, The Catcher in the Rye, College, Professors, English Literature, Mark Edmundson, College Graduates, Living News
Nicolaus Mills

UVA literature professor Mark Edmundson wants students to have the pleasure and excitement of immersing themselves in a book before engaging in a skeptical dialogue about it.

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The Shelf Talker: Ramen Noodles, Harold Bloom, and Poisonous Plants.

Kevin Smokler | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Scribd, Literature, Writing, Books, Fiction, Andyraskin, Journals, Elizabeth Berg, Media News
Kevin Smokler

Home Safe, is by Helen Ames who is recently widowed and having a tough time with her daughter, her missing retirement money and herself. It doesn't scream originality to us.

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Third Screen: J. D. Salinger Sues

Vickie Karp | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Maureen Dowd, Joyce Maynard, Catcher in the Rye, 60 Years Later, Woody Allen, John David California, J. D. Salinger, 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, Media News
Vickie Karp

When does an iconic image, a shared artistic experience, or a germane public idea shift shape from private and protected to public and open to fair use?

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Books, Books and More Books, or Tote That Bookbag

David Finkle | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Toni Morrison, BookExpo America, Publishing Houses, Publishing, Mavis Gallant, Books, Literature, Joan Wickersham, Living News
David Finkle

I plucked and pillaged a number of books but I consumed the Hershey kisses, apples and candy canes on the spot.

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How My Great-Grandmother Inspired Me to Write The Bolter

Frances Osborne | Posted 06.25.2009 | Style

Read More: Literature, Womens-Movement, Women, Women's Suffrage, Womens Rights, Heritage, Style News
Frances Osborne

My mother's grandmother, Idina Sackville, broke every one of the Edwardian social rules designed to restrain women a hundred years ago.

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The Road From La Cueva

Sheila Ortego | Posted 06.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Novels, Literature, Women's Rights, Feminism, Romance, Southwest, Santa Fe, Living News
Sheila Ortego

Women everywhere are still afraid -- of their husbands, of themselves, their own urges, of danger, and of judgment.

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The Shelf Talker: Butterscotch, and Prairie Home Companion

Kevin Smokler | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, James Ellroy, Authors, Books, Susan Sontag, Zocalo, Phillip Lopate, Touring, Los Angeles, Reading, Lynn Freed, Joe Meno, Media News
Kevin Smokler

Never mind TST would watch Lynn Freed read the back of a soup can. Give her 10 minutes and she'd have that soup can speaking Dutch and flirting with a bag of soda crackers. Simply one of the classiest acts in contemporary literature. Makes you feel smarter just hanging around.

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Moonshadows: Part 3

Grant Whitney Harvey | Posted 06.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Sigma Nu, Novelette, Malibu, Grant Whitney Harvey, Sailing, Mammoth, Moonshadows, Usc, Literature, Western, Skiing, California, Living News
Grant Whitney Harvey

Suddenly, his heart jumped and his breath slipped, a reaction to which he responded somewhat shocked. He felt caught. He felt as guilty as ever.

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Great Moments in Literature Presented by Twitter (Limit 140 Characters Including Spaces)

Tom McNichol | Posted 06.07.2009 | Comedy

Read More: E-Books, Literature, Internet, Twittering, Twitter, Comedy News
Tom McNichol

Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall hav

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Mary Chapin Carpenter Returns to the Stage and Talks about Eudora Welty, Inspiration, and Bonding

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Kate Campbell, Literature, Eudora Welty, Art, Souhthern Women, Entertainment, Nobel Prize Literature, Southern Writers, Jackson Mississippi, Folk Music, Georgianne Nienaber, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Caroline Herring, Claire Holley, Entertainment News
Georgianne Nienaber

Five-time Grammy winner, Mary Chapin Carpenter is still raving about the experience she had performing with Kate Campbell, Claire Holley and Caroline Herring at the Eudora Welty Centennial Concert.

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Amazon Censors Gay Books

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 05.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Amazon.com, Equality, Gay Rights, Brokeback Mountain, James Baldwin, Books, Amazon Sales Rankings, Gay, Jeanette Winterson, Censorship, Media News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

What progress we have made that a few stories on the internet can make a giant like Amazon apologize and change because their actions offend notions of equality and decency that include LGBT Americans.

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Searching for Spalding

Rob Stafford | Posted 05.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Spalding Gray, Life Interrupted, Swimming to Cambodia, Art, Books, Media News
Rob Stafford

My father was a teacher. He taught science & history. Sixth grade and fourth. I always got the impression he moved to fourth grade because the sixt...

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Publishing Is Dead [Part 2]: Can We Make It About Writers For A Change?

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Publishing, Writers, Tolstoy, Vanity Press, Death of Publishing, Laermer.com, Trendspotting, Book Business, Reading, Literature, Books, Media News
Richard Laermer

Write your masterpiece, put it on Amazon or in the back of your van, take it to the willing with spare cash at a state fair. If it's good it'll sell. You just got to make them open it up.

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Escape From Banality: A Cultural Road Map For Our Children

John Farr | Posted 04.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Literature, Internet, Art, Children, Museums, Theatre, You Tube, Pop Culture, Film, Teaching, Technology, Music, Reading, Culture, Living News
John Farr

Tell me if you agree with the following assessment of contemporary life, and if you do concur, then let me know why you're not scared, or angry.

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Deniability: Facing the War on Terror through Poetry

Janet Ritz | Posted 03.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: History, War on Terror, Torture, Poetry, The Environmentalist, Politics, 9/11, Literature, George Witte, Deniability, Entertainment News
Janet Ritz

George Witte's Deniability is spectacular for its simplicity, its perfect placement of each word and for its bravery in peeling back the layers of the war on terror in verse.

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John Updike, Hall of Famer

David Margolick | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Culture, Literature, Ted Williams, Sports, John Updike, Boston Red Sox, The New Yorker, Media News
David Margolick

Up until the age of 76, Updike never stopped working, turning out a vast body of words. But nothing can top the astonishing piece he wrote on Ted Williams' final game.

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Bookcamp: the Books are All Right

Hugh McGuire | Posted 02.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Bookcamp, Publishing, Books, Socialmedia, Future, Music, Barcamp, Technology, Reading, London, Ebooks, Book Publishing, Publishing Industry, Old Media Death Watch, Media News
Hugh McGuire

BookCamp London started with a blank grid: 6 time slots and 5 spaces (or 5 spaces, 6 time slots?), with participants asked to fill in the grid, adding sessions they'd like to discuss.

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Mr. Darcy at the White House

Joanne Rendell | Posted 02.14.2009 | Style

Read More: Literature, Avon Books, White House, Mr. Darcy, Michelle Obama, The New Yorker, Romance Novels, Jane Austen, Mariana Cook, Pride and Prejudice, Anna Karenina, Barack Obama, Harlequin, Style News
Joanne Rendell

When I was reading, I started to realize that Barack Obama, the very-soon-to-be 44th President of the United States of America, is Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy.

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Glory days? They Were Gone Long Ago.

Nicole Kenealy | Posted 02.11.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Literary Culture, Literature, Publishing, Books, Media News
Nicole Kenealy

Another article informing me about the impending death of the publishing industry. Like I needed a reminder? Black Wednesday wasn't so long ago that we already need a recap.

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Making Books for Gadgets

Hugh McGuire | Posted 02.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Iphone, Publishing, Stanza, Kindle, Ipod, Ereader, Books, Digital, Design, Layout, Text, Ebooks, Reading, Typesetting, Ereaders, Media News
Hugh McGuire

I no longer have to carry a book, because I have 75 of them sitting on my iPod, which I have anyway. The Kindle & Sony Reader both say: carry me the way you used to carry your book.

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Is the Long Tail Shorter Than We Thought?

Hugh McGuire | Posted 02.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Longtail, Newmedia, Art, Economics, Anderson, Distribution, Digital, Web, Media, Music, Obscure Culture, New Media, Netflix, zip.ca, Long Tail Theory, Media News
Hugh McGuire

If everyone can cheaply produce media -- music, text, video, sound, and photos -- then much of it is going to be of little interest to most of us.

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