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June 3, 2013February 25, 2019 - Nonfiction, Technology, Uncategorized

A Bird, a Plane

From David Shields’s How Literature Saved My Life: When I was a little kid, I was a very good baseball…

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December 25, 2011December 26, 2011 - Uncategorized

Marie Calloway, My Lover (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Just Love Tao Lin)

I recently wrote an article about failure. The text received moderate attention. I was glad about that. I like attention.…

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December 19, 2011December 20, 2011 - Uncategorized

Our Natural Bent for Destruction and the Rights to Failure

“Is there an art that is dangerous? Yes. It is that art which upsets the conditions of life.”–Charles Baudelaire. What…

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September 19, 2011September 18, 2011 - Uncategorized

#Author Fail 16: Wendy Walker

Good riddance, failures. Today ends this column, at least in weekly form, which for the 15 weeks past has detailed…

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September 12, 2011September 12, 2011 - Uncategorized

#AuthorFail 15: Jeff Bursey

Welcome, dear failures, to the penultimate #AuthorFail…super-hero edition. My Schnide-y sense is tingling, and it says this column will soon…

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September 5, 2011September 5, 2011 - Uncategorized

#AuthorFail 14: Greg Olear

The Beast Rises (well, not really). Dare we call this a triumph against evil? Until next week…. **** My Brain…

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