August 2011
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A Brief History of Earthquakes in the Virginia... →
February 2011
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November 2010
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Not NANOWRIMO Again
Every year about this time, every November 2nd to be precise, I always realize that NANOWRIMO is already under way. Usually in April, I’ll find something on the internet that makes me want to do NANO this year and then every year I fall behind or forget or something. So this year, rather than get run over by NANO and it’s 250,000 word requirement, which is really easy to screw up if...
September 2010
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Which Would You Rather,
Never have the ability to contact anyone except face to face or have a cellphone built into your head that you can’t turn off?
August 2010
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Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On... →
Does knowing the origin of a word help with the way a word is understood or is it just a piece trivia?
A Bookfuturist Manifesto →
infoneer-pulse:
The first thing to understand about bookfuturism is that “book” modifies “futurism” as much as the other way around. So bookfuturists aren’t just people promoting the future of the book; they’re also a different kind of futurist, the way a cubo-futurist painting like Duchamp’s “Nude Descending A Staircase” is different, or Afro-futurism was/is different from typically white...
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“The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories...”
– Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (via mwfogleman)
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WatchErin McKean redefines the dictionary
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Sean Penn Might Play Editor Maxwell Perkins →
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Outside the Whale →
Rushdie vs. Orwell
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“Every man’s memory is his private literature.”
– Aldous Huxley (via libraryland)
Inception was stolen from Scrooge McDuck →
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Crappy Story Idea #8
Wow, this could also be a crappy movie starring Colin Farrell or Mark Wahlberg:
Quin loves this boy from his old neighborhood with whom he liked to play soccer. Quin always loved to go back and play soccer with this boy because it reminds him of when his life was less complicated. Now that he his a gangster, Quin has little to keep him grounded. Until one day the boy is shot in senseless street...
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“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking,...”
– Carl Sagan (via earlyfrost) (via cocoku) (via witchwife)
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“Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via booklover206)
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mouseburger rolodex: linguistic terrorism →
“This is a great problem we have with art because there is this whole theory that art is a linguistic activity. The reason Conceptual artists deal with linguistic abstractions is because we live in a society which is ruled by linguistic terrorism. We are ruled through language, through…
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July 2010
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The Best Magazine Articles Ever →
I know that is a lofty title, but it’s true. Some of these articles I read in class; others, out of personal intrest. Many I couldn’t resist. AND THEY’RE OVER ONE HUNDRED ARTICLES! Each and everyone worth reading. My favorites include:
David Foster Wallace, “Federer As Religious Experience.” The New York Times, Play Magazine, August 20, 2006.
David Foster Wallace,...
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I would love to read all these stories. →
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