Every website on the Internet includes links to other websites. It’s how the web works. If you include a link to say, a CNN article about Libya, you are not…
…Guernica: Can you give me an example of a novel that wasn’t an obvious bestseller—one that other editors weren’t clambering to buy—that you’ve nonetheless done well with? Elisabeth Schmitz: Right….
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…show love while avoiding sentimentality. Dogs are sometimes quirky—Maria Semple writes great dogs and gives them funny names like Ice Cream. But the dogs that move me in fiction are…
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Creative Commons/EnelSharing Like most meaningful political ideas, Jhatkaa, India’s new online organizing start-up, arose from a place of dissatisfaction. Founder Deepa Gupta had long been involved in environmental justice and…
…and by now we know the drill. We pick up the sweet, liquid antibiotic from the pharmacy, which she struggles to get down between bites of vanilla ice cream. She…
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sudden noise took her breath away. The sound of dogs sniffing. She put her hand over her mouth, trying not to breathe, shake, or even move her tongue. Dogs’ claws…
…to sell you face cream.” “I don’t use face cream,” said Amy. “You should,” said Donny. “Mom does.” Instinctively, Amy’s hand reached up to the softening skin around her throat….
…but that’s not what I like about it. To have my dogs—my dogs, which is very different from running someone else’s dogs, because the connection is that much deeper—and be…
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…up a business with Casero, he mentioned something about working with dogs.” “Mira imbécil, are you stupid or something? Casero works with dogs for fighting, nothing else. You’re not getting…
…you’ve invented in this book, buying a pro forma eulogy from the internet. His oldest friend has died. He hasn’t written anything for years and can’t find the words. David…
…as Producer in Times of Crisis.” 16 Beaver Group, online, April 15th 2004. 6Kaiser, Jonathan. “Work About Working Together: On Collaboration and Activism in Contemporary Art.” Constellation 17. QuodLibetica, online,…
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…buy something. Social Security and Medicare aren’t broccoli or asparagus. They’re as American as hot dogs and apple pie. So if the individual mandate to buy private health insurance gets…
…people,” she said. “At least they don’t smell like dogs,” I said, trying to cheer her. Graça covered her face in her hands. I kept quiet, knowing better than to…
…how people buy gods? “You bet,” Mr. Gruels answered. “As a general principle, I can tell you that most female buyers prize fertility deities. Most young male customers, especially the…
…tight—it has the effect of a Manet in this way, though it’s doing something slightly different than Manet, who is not often copied here (when he is, the results are…
Image courtesy of Naina Williams. As of yesterday, you can join Inkwell, the only online national black book club here: www.inkwellbookclub.com. Clicking on the URL takes browsers to a Simon…
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…and eventually the wider internet. As a journalist and former academic, Petersen has a knack for looking critically at, yet writing colloquially about, cultural phenomena—getting at the larger trends, truths,…
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…actually boarded up. Had she made a mistake? She looked around. It was quiet. She could hear insects. Birds in the woods. Dogs. There were no dogs. Every other yard…
Franz Marc, Playing Dogs, 1912. Oil on canvas. Zareto and I, we are squatting by the dumpsters behind the building. We are mesmerized by the six newborn kittens. “Sofi, Sofi,…
…dogs out of their smelly kennels to walk them around a nearby manmade lake before the daytime sun melted us. Some of the dogs were quarantined, sick with doggie colds…