July 2012
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theparisreview:
After listening to their first...
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Taking a novel route out of prison →
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“According to Unesco, the biggest single indicator of whether a child is going to...”
– Children with short attention spans ‘failing to read books’ - Telegraph (via infoneer-pulse)
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“I wrote a memoir, so perhaps it’s not surprising that I find outing myself...”
– “Packing My Identity: Reflections of a Queer Traveler,” Nick Krieger, Beacon Broadside (via beaconpress)
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My Reading Hats
Copyediting: RED LINE. RED LINE. WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING TO THOSE COMMAS? RED LINE. THIS IS BORING. GET RID OF THE NEXT SIX PAGES. STOP DOUBLE-SPACING!
Reviewing: Hero's character is very inconsistent. Where is the falling action? This isn't one of those books that thinks it doesn't need a complete plot arc because there's a sequel, is it?
For pleasure: Id, id, id, id, id, my id is happy! I am happy! I am reading! Life is awesome! *swoon*
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the cozmas: How You Can Have a Bunch of Great... →
chirart:
Hahahaha ever since Saturday the Korra finale seems to make me angrier and angrier. As a storyteller and as a fan of solid storytelling, it is an atrocious mess! I stand by the creators are amazing directors, amazing concept artists, amazing producers, but wow are they terrible…
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“To be accused of a feminine style has haunted the psyches of women who write,...”
– Brownmiller, Susan. Femininity. Linden Press, New York. 1984. (pg. 125)
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JSG's tumblr: Why does it take so long for a book... →
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4everyurs asked:
“Why are release dates when they are? Why can’t a book be released as soon as it’s ready? (I am assuming that the answer has something to do with marketing, but I’m still interested.)”
This is a great question, and one that has both a simple and an endlessly complicated…
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“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something,...”
– Remembering Nora Ephron , who passed away last night at the age of 71, with her most timeless words on women, love, happiness, reading, life, and death (via explore-blog)
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“Don’t underestimate how much antagonism there is toward women and how many...”
– Nora Ephron’s commencement speech at Wellesley College in 1996 (my class)
I remember being sort of taken aback by her speech when I heard it on graduation day, because it wasn’t full of feel-good “you can do it” stuff. I was 21 at the time and hadn’t lived in the real world yet — not really. Now,...
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TV Tropes Deletes Every Rape Trope; Geek Feminism... →
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themarysue:
Up until a week ago, TV Tropes had a very handy trope index called Rape Tropes. (Note: all TVT rape trope pages in this article link, ironically, to Google caches.) This page also linked to other iterations of rape tropes in popular culture such as Rape as Backstory, Rape and Switch, Rape as Drama, Rape as Redemption, and other rape...
“Society has allowed rapists to define what resistance is: screaming, crying,...”
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A section of the article “How I became a rape victim”
(via sociolab)
BOOM, rape culture at work… Can I also add, when you are in a situation that involves rape or you think might involve rape or looks like it might involve rape in a few minutes, its usually pretty scary to scream and kick…...
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