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May 31, 2013

Aposthropocalypse 0

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There’s an Apostrophe Protection Society, and it’s in crisis mode.

May 31, 2013

Don’t Quit Your Day Job 0

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Writer Manjula Martin has been a stock girl, used bookseller, seamstress, waitress, retailer, Girl Friday- just to name a few of her day jobs. She questions the value of the artist’s day job in her VQR post. “Why are writers so eager to leave work behind?” she writes.

May 31, 2013

Blues Traveler 0

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John Cline is retracing the Great Migration route from New Orleans to Chicago for his Oxford American column, “Arterial America.” In his latest dispatch, he discovers Jackson, Mississippi’s hip-hop community.

May 31, 2013

Losing My Book Fair Virginity at the BEA Swag-A-Thon 3

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The vast autograph area at BEA brought to mind the cattle pens in a Midwestern feed lot. Indeed, many of the people waiting in line looked like beasts of burden, draped with bulging bags of swag and hankering for more.

May 31, 2013

The Worst Beach Read: On Amy Sackville’s Orkney 0

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Richard compiles instead an “endless index” of his wife, which I’ve collected and will reproduce here lest anyone be looking for a new pet name for his or her significant other: little half-breed; daughter of the sea; shape-shifting goddess; barefoot urchin; frog princess; faery queen; nymph; northern girl; tricky capricious Ariel; clamped little clamshell; frond of pallid wrack; spined and spiky urchin; storm-witch; and little limpet.

May 30, 2013

New Blog Highlights Writers of Color 0

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Are you a journalist of color? Aminatou Sow and Jamelle Bouie started a new Tumblr Journos of Color that showcases articles by writers of color and accepts submissions.