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January 25, 2012

Copyrights Wake: SOPA, James Joyce, and the Future of Intellectual Property 4

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We are going to need a completely new online framework for supporting creators, and to get there, we might have to move beyond a tired notion of “copyright” and towards “author’s rights.”

January 9, 2012

Orhan Pamuk’s Unlikely New Role  0

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Turkish media’s attempts to trivialize dissidents by focusing on their private lives has a touch of the News of the World scandal about it.

December 28, 2011

Race and American Poetry: Dove v. Vendler 34

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Vendler asks us to think of value in terms of a hypothetical and permanent future, one that will have unvarying and therefore conclusive notions of what was good and bad in our writing. It’s an exasperating argument, since it asks us to defer to the critic’s mystical conjuring of our far off progeny, a population that will, of course, have the same values as the critic herself.

November 11, 2011

The Disappointment Author: Lethem v. Wood 101

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The critical takedown is well-known cultural corrective with a long and glorious history. The fellow critic providing cultural corrective to someone who has gotten too big for his or her britches — it’s practically a public service, if you do it right.

August 11, 2011

Dispatch from Turkey: Plagiarism Charges Levied at Award-Winning Author 17

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Award-winning polyglot Turkish author Elif Şafak has been accused of plagiarism by a translator in Turkey, where her newest novel Iskender was released on August 1.

July 8, 2011

The Art and Science of Collaboration 8

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When someone reads your rough draft, it’s like letting them see you half-dressed.  It’s about arriving at a level of intellectual comfort – or having faith in the process.  In a successful collaboration, both people feel like they did less than half the work.