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You Set Me Right: Favorite Songs of the Aughts
The Better Edwards
The Hapless Life of Mister (F.) Scott (Fitzgerald)
Letting the Mystery Linger
Reading Rainbow

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A Softer World: 536
Everybody needs to get this smart, quick.
Woman In Iowa Arrested For Falling Down the Stairs While Pregnant
Thank goodness I wasn't pregnant last time I fell down the stairs...
On the role for editors in a digital world
Click through for a photo of Maxwell Perkins AND for a short article that attempts to smooth the perpetually ruffled feathers of the publishing industry.

Inanities

was just re-reading one of his old blog posts and had to look up a word he used. Kudos and for shame past and present selves, respectively. 1 day ago
Procrastination was a lot more fun back in college when everyone was procrastinating to avoid doing the same thing. 1 day ago
has to explain how his brain works & how it got that way, using nothing except a very, very few words. This is how he spends vacation days. 2 days ago
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A book publisher’s manifesto for the 21st century [pdf]
Bookninja
How the Book Publishing Industry Should Reinvent Itself
New Publishing Industry Needs New Editors
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing
The 21st Century Writer

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