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Amazon’s earnings plunge dramatically — again — and Wall Street rewards it Amazon posted its numbers for the first quarter yesterday, and how various media sources spun those numbers gives you some idea of how the company gets away with what it… 4 / Read more »
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Richard Prince makes another goddam phony If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is why, on a warm fall day last year, James Frey was standing in… 1 / Read more »
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Truman Capote’s typewriter goes for a song If you’d had a spare $8,000-odd lying around over the last few days, you could now be the proud owner of Truman Capote’s typewriter. It’s just sold on ebay for $8,281,… Read more »
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NEA funds effort to turn Thoreau’s Walden into a game This article in the Guardian points to an interesting list of recent grants awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts—one of which is $40,000 and going to the University of… Read more »
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Poetry schmoetry April is just about out the door, and going with it is National Poetry Month. I’m sure it’s a very small number of people that actually care about poetry month.… Read more »
- Day in Review
Franzen’s shameful storytelling Classics in the digital age 75th anniversary of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop Reading Northrop Frye Shift happens 7 thoughts on book reviews Edith Wharton’s hilarious vulgarity Divorce… Read more »
