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Dissecting My Sister, the Serial Killer
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The Hack’s Guide to Playing the Waiting Game
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Writing From Elsewhere: A Timely Anthology Collects Tales of Displacement and Resettlement
To anyone who regularly gets stuck in the news cycle, The Penguin Book of Migration Literature may seem somewhat overdue. Migration issues have received an increasing amount of media coverage over the past several years, often within a context of violence and disasters, as the number of...
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Scandal Engulfs Independent Publisher ChiZine Publications
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware®If you're not part of the horror or speculative fiction community, you may not be aware of the scandal that over the past two weeks has engulfed ChiZine Publications, a (previously) highly-regarded Canadian independent publisher.In September of this...
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Cities of Literature
Not a Calvino book, but a designation by UNESCO. Aren’t they the ones that collect pennies at Halloween? Nevermind. What does it mean to become a city of literature? My guess is that there’s probably fewer seats at the coffee shop and the avocado toast is on seedy bread. But don’t...
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“IBM experimented with adding Urban Dictionary data to its artificial intelligence system Watson, only to scrub it all out again when the computer started swearing at them.”
How linguists are using the Urban Dictionary (which sounds like it should be rebranded as the Urban Dicktionary, but I digress.) Mostly I use it to decipher my kids’ texts. With its crowdsourced definitions and high speed of coinage, Urban Dictionary is very much a product of the internet...
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New verse from Baudelaire
Someone has been hoarding a copy of Les Fleurs du Mal in which Charlie himself added an extra verse to an “erotic” poem within. The book is now on auction, so let’s just spread it wide open under some bright lights to bring it into line with what the 21st century considers “...
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Library bans pests, people
No, not the weird guy who was looking at porn and is now trying to get you to take your earbuds out so he can explain how he’s being discriminated against because he’s white and straight–bed bugs. I’m down with it. Trustees said they wanted to take care in being sensitive...
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The overly complex thriller, illustrated
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On award tour
Okay, it’s just that time of year and I don’t have it in me to do separate posts for each damn thing, so here are a few links to some awards news: Bookninja favourite Heather O’Neill wins Writers Trust Fellowship for Awesomeness* France’s “Oscar Season” for...
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