5 days ago

Are people born writers? Or are writers created by years of practice and strong teachers? Today's guest on the Morning Media Menu was Geoff Colvin, senior editor-at-large for Fortune magazine. The veteran reporter and author explored his recent book, "Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World ...

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5 days ago by turducken

As I continue to read/skim books of advice for faculty, today I encountered something disturbing. It's not the only book that does this, which is why I'm not calling it out, but it was particularly blatant in this case. The book has chapters on minorities and women, and those chapters are aimed spec ...

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8 days ago

As the one-year anniversary nears of the horrific terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Virginia Quarterly Review has serialized a 19,000-word essay about that terrible day. That work of narrative nonfiction was written by freelance multimedia journalist Jason Motlagh, today's guest on the Morning Media Menu ...

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8 days ago

Choosing from a crowded field of brand new words that included "hashtag," "paywall," and "sexting," the New Oxford American Dictionary has picked its highly anticipated Word of the Year: "unfriend." The term has become linguistic shorthand for breaking off a friendship in virtual space, the end of a ...

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12 days ago

In an email interview with Washington City Paper, Washington Post Book World fiction editor Ron Charles worried about the subscriber rate for the site's podcast series. Here's more from the post: "There's no concrete deadline for adding more subscribers, Charles says, or even a goal for how many it ...

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16 days ago

Celebrity book deals have always stoked passionate opinions among GalleyCat readers and one magazine has taken a special look at a particular sub-genre of this polarizing literary trend: celebrity poetry. Over at Details magazine, a short poetry quiz urges discerning readers to connect celebrities w ...

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18 days ago by cs783

Around 50 nominations each for the Carnegie 2010 and Greenaway 2010 awards. Judging only by the fact that I recognise many of the authors and illustrators as well-established names, and that they are in competition on such substantial lists, these will be competitions of great quality. I have just r ...

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19 days ago by Jessica

It's been a while since William Gibson's Pattern Recognition came out, and I still haven't managed to read it. I enjoyed Neuromancer very much, but haven't been impressed by some of his other work. Nevertheless, this interview in the Blackbird Archive is fantastic. Most of it, you'll notice, is an e ...

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20 days ago by Riot

Hello everyone! As you can probably ascertain from the glacial pace of posts lately, I have been rather swamped with work and attempting to find a more suitable place to live in my beloved H-Town. But in spite of this, my brain bone has been occupied with how much I’d like to give Burning Leaves a m ...

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20 days ago

This month, Publishers Weekly unveiled a series of Best Books of 2009 lists, and the "Top Ten" list did not include any books by women authors. Cate Marvin (pictured, via), a writer and co-founder Women In Letters And Literary Arts (WILLA), objected in a statement: "The absence made me nearly speech ...

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