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December 2008

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ALA 274: Content Matters

ALA 274: Content Matters
In Issue No. 274 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Content strategy gets as little respect today as …

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Tina Brown’s ‘Reinvention’ Is Wearing Thin [Media]

Tina Brown’s ‘Reinvention’ Is Wearing Thin [Media]
Tina Brown — who once edited Tatler, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker and Talk — …

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To read his acutely self-conscious, dialectically fevered writing was often to witness the agony of cognition: how the twists and turns of thought can both hold out the promise of true understanding and become a danger to it.

To read his acutely self-conscious, dialectically fevered writing was often to witness the agony of cognition: how the twists and turns of thought can both …

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The economy slips deeper and deeper into its trench, and yet the workspace for writers seems to get more crowded by the day as refugees from other professions take cover behind what they hope will be the respectability of the writing life. The other day, as I looked down on the field of cubicles from the “resting area” on the balcony, I felt an urge to read aloud from a Graham Greene story I had disregarded in my 20s: “Are you prepared for the years of effort, ‘the long defeat of doing nothing well’? As the years pass writing will not become any easier, the daily effort will grow harder to endure, those ‘powers of observation’ will become enfeebled; you will be judged, when you reach your 40s, by performance and not by promise.” Harsh stuff. But don’t take Greene’s word for it, or mine. I’m a writer. Maybe I’m just trying to clear a little more room for myself at the workspace.

The economy slips deeper and deeper into its trench, and yet the workspace for writers seems to get more crowded by the day as refugees …

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Housing Works Bookstore Cafe (4/5) on Yelp.com

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe (4/5) on Yelp.com
More than any bookstore here, this setting somehow reminds me of my west coast roots and the book …

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Frustrated Writer Frustrated by Being a Writer [Bad Jobs]

Frustrated Writer Frustrated by Being a Writer [Bad Jobs]
Every wannabe author has this fantasy of what the job is like. This fantasy usually involves …

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And you thought the people voting for the Grammys, the Oscars, and the Booker prize might have missed some of the glorious works in their fields? Gaming people often lack the time, the money, and the patience to really get into a year’s worth of games.

And you thought the people voting for the Grammys, the Oscars, and the Booker prize might have missed some of the glorious works in their …

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In most rich countries, the old distinction between high and popular culture is breaking down. Isolated examples of this have been seen for a long time …. But what used to be a characteristic of individuals or particular occasions is now becoming the defining feature of the whole culture.

In most rich countries, the old distinction between high and popular culture is breaking down. Isolated examples of this have been seen for a long …

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