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Maggie Leoffler's Archive


Female Authors

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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

I’m a female and have read mostly ‘male’ books– books authored by men and centered around [...]


Book Mobile

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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Books should be available to everyone, and Charles Mysak of Manhattan has, for 11 years, been [...]


Synthetic Life

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Monday, August 15th, 2011

The brunette, dressed all in red, writes in her diary, logging her thoughts about bugs, pine [...]


Track the History of a Word

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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

I found a really fun tool called Book Ngram Viewer by Google. It tracks the use [...]


Food For Thought

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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

The New York Times published a great little comic about the eating (and drinking) habits of [...]


The Store

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Friday, July 29th, 2011

7am to 8am I’m exhausted. My manager has given me a ribbing, telling me to get [...]


Anthony Patch: I Hate You

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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

I spent about three months reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and Damned. I enjoy Fitzgerald’s [...]


Hark! A Vagrant

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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

One of the greatest things about the internet is that independent artists are able to get [...]


Readers

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Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

“Do you read?” asked my manager, a young pierced/tattooed girl a foot shorter than me. “Of [...]


Symbols

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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Symbols are something we encounter every day of our lives. A circle with a line through [...]