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The Institute for the Future of the Book
Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 Hours
Genius: A Modern View NY Times, April 30, 2009
Brevity’s Pull: In Praise of the American Short Story NY Times, April 4, 2009
Some Thoughts on the Lost Art of Reading Aloud NY Times, May 16, 2009
The Tale of a Yarn-Spinner Wall Street Journal, April 23, 2009
100 Best First Lines from Novels American Book Review
Call me Ishmael. The end. – cellphone novels and Twitter fiction from Salon.com
The Message Is the Medium Atlantic Unbound, originally published in Chicago Review Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter 1995-96)
Is Google Making Us Stupid? Atlantic Magazine, July/August 2008
Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival
First Draft – an essay by Judith Lindbergh
Putting your words out there, trying to be heard by Carla Cantor
Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price, The New York Times, June 6, 2010
‘The Shallows’: This Is Your Brain Online, Interview with Nicholas Carr, “All Things Considered”, National Public Radio, June 2, 2010
Stranger than Fiction, a film every writer must see
I Write Like…” – analyze your writing style (just for fun!)
Reclaiming the Imagination by Timothy Williamson – a fascinating argument for the evolutionary value of human imagination, NY Times Op-Ed, August 15, 2010
Outdoors and Out of Reach, Studying the Brain, NY Times, August 15, 2010
Interactive Alice and enhanced Narnia – a glimpse of things to come?
100 Things About a Novel by Alexander Chee
The “Basic” Plots in Literature