Omnivore
The sound of the Internet
Anupam Chander (UC-Davis): Facebookistan. Zsolt Kelemen (Szeged): Becoming the New Socialite? Facebook, Transmedia and Storytelling in the Age of New Media. From Cyberpsychology, Stephan Winter, Nina Haferkamp and Yvonne Stock (Duisburg-Essen) and Nicole C. Kramer (Dresden): The Digital Quest for Love: The Role of Relationship Status in Self-Presentation on Social Networking Sites. Laurie Johnson (USQ): Between Form and Function: History and Identity in the Blogosphere. From Wired, Brian
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Paper Trail
Robert Draper, a contributor to the New York Times Magazine and GQ, has has been added to John Edwards’s witness list. Draper responded on Twitter: “To Edwards defense team: not sure why I'm on your witness list, but I'm in Libya all month anyway, carry on.”
Writer Kyle MacDonald, best known for using the barter section of Craigslist to trade his way up from a red paperclip to a house in Saskatchewan, is making headlines again, this time on Etsy.
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Hobo Lit
Michael Sandlin America's attitudes toward its most destitute citizens have always been sharply polarized. Consider, for instance, the philosophical divide between Emerson's uncharitable self-reliance ("Are they my …- Coming of Age Leigh Stein
- Understanding North Korea Lee Ambrozy
- Remixology Judy Lillibridge
- Field of Screens Michael Thomsen
Daily Review
What's behind the boom in dystopian fiction for young readers?
Rebecca Stead chose to set her children's novel "When You Reach Me"—winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal—in nineteen-seventies New York partly because that's where she grew up, but also, as she told one interviewer, because she wanted "to show a world of kids with a … 
- In One Person
by John Irving - Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace
by Kate Summerscale
Interviews
Tom Bissell
We're fortunate to live in a time where a handful of enormously gifted writers are revitalizing the essay form. One example is Tom Bissell, whose new essay collection Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation, adds up to a kind of narrative of contemporary culture, weighing in on video games, underground literary movements, bad movies and the fates of great writers.
…- Parataxis is Édouard Levé’s best friend. Parataxis—also John Ashbery’s best …
- THE TITLE OF THE SECOND VOLUME of Susan Sontag’s private writings is taken from an …
- “Nice just to walk and breathe and not worry about every goddamn thing. Nice, too, …
- Cathy Park Hong’s poetry can be dark, depressing, grimly prophetic, and fun—often …
- Indoctrination into the practices of modern motherhood can feel like showing up at …
- "Taylor has had many biographers. Yet their books often reveal more about their authors …
- ANTHONY SHADID, the lead Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, died on …
- Joe Brainard achieved a singular position in the poetry world before his death from …
Reviews
Excerpt
The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro by Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio TabucchiItalian novelist Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa in 1943 and died in Portugal last weekend at the age of 68. Tabucchi was the author of more than two dozen novels, including 1994's "Pereira Declares," and 1997's "The Missing Head of Damascenio Monteiro," a crime novel about the discovery of a headless man. Below is an excerpt from the beginning of "The Missing Head," courtesy of New Directions.
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