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Publishing Industry Archive

Banned Books: The Literary Gems We Almost Missed Out On

By  Julia Perch
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

It’s hard to believe there was a time when incredible books like Frankenstein, Ulysses, Candide, The [...]


The Paris Review spring 2009

By  Jordan Schilling
Monday, July 13th, 2009

The Paris Review‘s recent spring 2009 issue features an amazing fiction peice entitiled At the Zoo, [...]


“I can make it hot!!!” says Craigslist

By  Emily Homrok
Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Being a college student — that is to say, being utterly broke to the point of [...]


Colbert Takes on the Inquirer

By  Tim McGovern
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Like many left-of-center Philadelphians, I was quite disturbed to learn that the Philadelphia Inquirer had decided [...]


Atheists Go!

By  Ali Cahill
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

This New York Times article gets +5 for mentioning Obama’s speech (“non-believers”; see Tim’s Out on [...]


Globalization in literature

By  Justin Sachse
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

I used to be incredibly afraid of globalization. As an aspiring writer, I was worried that [...]


Make Your Own Fonts!

By  Ali Cahill
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

I realize my posts are almost always about some weird technology, but I found this website, [...]


The perks of not reproducing

By  Jordan Schilling
Monday, April 13th, 2009

I read an article in this month’s issue of The Advocate that assuaged my fears concerning [...]


The Future of the Publishing Industry

By  Jen Fromal
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

A couple weeks ago I read an article about the apparent demise of the publishing industry [...]


Diatribe Against Experience

By  Ali Cahill
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Most of the time, I think of experience as a catch-22 — you need experience to [...]