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Last informations before radio silence

I have been without computer for two weeks and will soon be without for three months, but as a last little update, some recent work:

Wherein I feel bad about bashing Elizabeth Edwards and bash Rielle Hunter
Wherein I discourse upon Suzanne Collins, one of the Time 100
Wherein I admire the Atlantic and scorn the iPad
Wherein I am interviewed by the peerless Claire Zulkey
Wherein BY DINT OF PODCAST I discuss future of publishing

See you in September, aka WINTERNET.

Will the iPad Change Publishing? Ask The Atlantic

For those who stay abreast of such matters, the last few months of the Atlantic's forays into fiction have been positively nail-biting. In November, the magazine announced it would be offering a subscription of two stories a month exclusively on the Kindle. As if to quell a possible uprising of the deviceless, they turned around and released the yearly print fiction issue to the entire subscriber base. This June, they'll convene two panels on the topic of Fiction in the Age of E-books at...

Suzanne Collins – The 2010 TIME 100

Remaking society can take decades. But global rebellion is short work for sharpshooter Katniss Everdeen, who single-handedly foments a revolution in Suzanne Collins's; blockbuster young-adult Hunger Games trilogy.

via TIME.

Ivy Love: Why Students Really Shouldn't Sleep With Their Professors

People are having sex at Yale?

Amorously enterprising Elis everywhere must forgive me if that was my first reaction to Salon's Broadsheet columnist Tracy Clark-Flory, who pooh-poohs the university's recent prohibition against faculty at Yale having sex with any undergraduate student, not just one of their own.

via Politics Daily.

Rielle, Oprah and Zen: Americas Truth-Off

Since the publication of "Game Change," the revelations of a sex tape and the alarming photo accompaniment to Rielle Hunter's GQ interview , we can safely say that dirt on the John Edwards scandal has entered an era of diminishing returns. America could handle the soap-worthy battle between a cancer-ridden wife and a wanton home-wrecker, but even the most salacious viewer knows that when the lady of the house takes off her pants and kneels next to the stuffed Elmo , it's time to pick up your...

Upcoming events and prayers for warmth

Hello all in this COLD COLD SPRING. A heads-up on two events about which I am more than thrilled, though again, I would like it to be less cold. This Friday, the 23, at 6 p.m., I am reading at NYC's midtown Center for Fiction for Girls' Right Now's CHAPTERS reading series, with a line-up of other talented teen authors, by which I mean teens, not those who write for teens, not that there's anything wrong with them, either, usually. Then SUNDAY MAY THE 2nd, at a time I do not know yet, I will b...

Sundays at Sunny's

Date: Sunday, May 2, 2010

Time: TBA

Event: Reading from Shelf Discovery & Check-In

Location: Sunny's Bar, Red Hook, Brooklyn

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CHAPTERS: Girls Write Now Spring Reading Series

Date: Friday, April 23

Time: 6 p.m.

Event: Reading from Shelf Discovery

Location: NYC's Center for Fiction

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Does blogging matter? How about panels?

At times the session felt like a support group, acknowledging that even the most beloved blogs have a natural life cycle: enthusiasm, devotion, love and, finally, exhaustion. Distinct from books, blogs are laboratories for passionate pursuits — where the profit motive can be put aside to accommodate expression and experimentation. It's clear that virtually no one earns a decent living off blogging, so revel in the liberty of being beholden only to your interests. And when that interest flags...

SXSW 2010: Why Keep Blogging? (Syncies courtesy SXSW)

Date: Saturday, March 13

Time: 9:30 a.m.

Event: SXSW: Why Keep Blogging? Real Answers for Smart Tweeple

Location: Austin Convention Center, 12AB

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