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#SecretBookProject: Editing Mode Engaged!
15+ hour, 6+ min ago (147+ words) As I am about to hit 50k on #SecretBookProject2, it’s time to focus on the extensive, involved editing pass for #SecretBookProject! I got the edits back from my editor (Hi! Thank you!) on Wednesday and it was a lot. My computer was…...
If on a Winter???s Night a Reader???
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (453+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Her breakdown, meticulously planned in advance, must have a “formal perfection.” If given a page in the DSM, Chihaya’s bibliophobia would be depicted as a disease infused with equal parts bibliophilia and bibliophobia,…...
G??nther Anders, the Philosopher at the End of the World
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (1414+ words) Günther Anders, the Philosopher at the End of the World compactmag.com When Army Air Forces officer Claude Eatherly piloted the plane Straight Flush in support of Enola Gay’s mission to obliterate the city of Hiroshima, his tasks were little…...
Colson Whitehead’s 'Cool Machine' Is Powered by His Ruminating Prose » PopMatters
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (791+ words) Chris Barsanti is a freelance writer, editor, consultant, and aspiring flâneur. A member of the National Book Critics Circle and the Online Film Critics Society, he has been published in the Chicago Tribune, The Hollywood Reporter, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Publishers…...
Zero to Well-Read Turns 1!
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (203+ words) View All posts by Vanessa Diaz Part book club, part English class, our Zero to Well-Read podcast is turning one this week, and it’s having quite a run! Hosted by Book Riot CEO Jeff O’Neal and Chief of Staff Rebecca…...
Read A Book Day: How reading fiction could make you more empathetic
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (379+ words) Today marks Read a Book Day, observed every September 6 to nudge people back to the page. For many Kenyans juggling long commutes and packed schedules, fiction often loses out to social media and the news cycle. Yet a growing body…...
Encounters with Dr. Resil Mojares: The constant stranger at bookstores
1+ week, 22+ hour ago (725+ words) Before knowing who he was, I always figured him to be that quiet old stranger who had a lifelong obsession with books (or to quote Isaac Babel, when one of his characters ran a hand over the forehead of a…...
Traffic Doc, Grammar Man and more fill this 'delight' of a book
1+ week, 1+ day ago (818+ words) You think you know a person. For decades Ron Hartung, he of the lean frame, dry wit, thoughtful goatee and vast insider knowledge of the language arts, edited my newspaper columns. Though we kept a disciplined pace with Ron polishing…...
500th Story: A Message to Vocal Writers
1+ week, 2+ day ago (207+ words) vocal.media 500th Story: A Message to Vocal Writers A motivating pep talk to my fellow Vocal writers My fellow Vocal writers: I've been viewing some of your stories and have left comments underneath them. Plus, giving my insights on them....
Aggie co-authors book over infrastructure
1+ week, 4+ day ago (575+ words) The young man sits in front of his computer, typing away on a piece soon to be published anonymously through Texas A&M’s satirical newspaper. Ten years later, the former editor-in-chief of the Mugdown switched out his satirical writing for…...