Weekly Reader
- June 27th, 2008
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From Fibreculture, Caroline McCaw on the art of Second Life and Axel Bruns looks at used based “produsage.”
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Due to some monetary constraints I was unable to attend ELO 08, but Scott Rettberg posted his presentation over at Grand Text Auto. More on that soon.
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Barrett Hathcock’s essay on the Internet from The Quarterly Conversation.
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Catching up on fiction from The New Yorker: Bolano, Diaz, Eugenides, and a previously untranslated story by Nabokov.
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Seamus Heaney’s 1985 review of Mr. Palomar from the New York Times.
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Daniel Green’s review of the intriguing Lost Books Of The Odyssey.
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The New Yorker had a big piece last week on Keith Olbermann.
Meanwhile, on Twitter…
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The New Republic pays tribute to de Beauvoir.
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Terra Nova covers a promising MMO called Lila Dreams.
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Greg Palast on the preemptive theft of the 2008 election. Speaking of, maybe I should just sleep in anyway.
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My new desktop background (Kind of big and exciting casting spoilers for the finale of Doctor Who)
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Kristin Hersh has a new website.
And…
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won a big literary award in Spain.
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A member of the old New York hardcore band Ultra Violence gets a mention in The New Yorker too.
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