From the monthly archives:

August 2009

“[G]ood writing is not about knowing words…”

This collection is a wonderful reminder that good writing is not about knowing words, grammar or Faulkner, but having that rare ability to tell the

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Richard Poirier, A Man of Good Reading

In the “canon wars” that raged on campuses and beyond in the 1980s —with multiculturalists feuding with traditionalists — Mr. Poirier faulted both sides. He

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Is Inglourious Basterds director Quentin Tarantino all washed up—or just hitting his stride?

Could it be that one of the most overrated directors of the ’90s has become one of the most underrated of the aughts?

via Is …

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Assessing the Stripper Memoir

It is a surprisingly rigid genre, with a set of rules and conventions as strict as those of sonnets or villanelles.

Katie Roiphe on Assessing …

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The Next Big Headache For Digital Publishers

Originally in: PaidContent.

With Google (NSDQ: GOOG), many media companies have come to see an insurrection everywhere they look. Last month, it was the Google Books …

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Why I Wish I Had Played D&D as a Kid

Sure, there’s narrative and story; there’s strategy and planning; there’s social and group dynamics. But the biggest reason I wish I had played D&D when

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“Can Do” by Maria Kalman

Maria Kalman on Benjamin Franklin; Can Do – And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog – NYTimes.com.…

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Why do people still need to celebrate the web?

And why, in our modern media culture that thrives on contrarianism, is there not substantial scepticism about the web – not the slightest suggestion that

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