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Culture of connectivity

By TF | Published: July 1, 2010
I came across this piece earlier today (via Harper’s Magazine Links, which often has one or two gems of feature writing in every update) and thought it was important to share (ironic, given the subject of the article). It covers topics like friendship, solitude, the private vs. the public – all subjects that have been [...]
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Public Library 20.1

By TF | Published: January 20, 2010
The Pictures of War you Aren’t Supposed to See. Striking article by Chris Hedges about the impersonality of ‘industrial war’ (great term) and two new books of war photographs that tell a very different story to the media and Hollywood’s “mythic visions of war [which] keep it heroic and entertaining.” Via truth dig. The Real [...]
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Public Library 17.12

By TF | Published: December 17, 2009
Ubu Editions publishes the unpublishable. Invited authors were asked what makes something unpublishable, these are their responses. Works range ”from an 1018-page manuscript (unpublishable due to its length) to a volume of romantic high school poems written by a now-respected innovative poet.” The intelligence factory: How America makes its enemies disappear. The story of Aafia Siddiqui and the [...]
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Writing stories that have already been written: David Foster Wallace and Malcolm Knox

By TF | Published: June 11, 2009
In 1996, following the success of his article, ‘Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All’, a story he wrote on the Illinois State Fair, David Foster Wallace was commissioned by Harper’s magazine to go on a seven night cruise. As with the fair, the journalistic framework of the project was simply [...]
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