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Hunger Games: Why the movie is better than the book

It’s not something you’ll often hear readers say, and it’s not something you’ll often hear me say, but with the Hunger Games we find one of those rare cases where the film adaptation of a book is...

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The Trayvon Martin case: A problem of narrative

If you’ve been following the news surrounding the death of Trayvon Martin — the Florida teen shot and killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman — you’re bound to have noticed a change in...

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Books will survive, even if publishers don’t

Last week an editorial by Mark Coker was posted on CNN.com, ominously titled ‘A dark day for the future of books,’ about how the Department of Justice recently charged Apple and five large publishers*...

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Rupert Murdoch, though ‘not fit,’ will not quit

Bad boy, Rupert… Today, a parliamentary committee in the UK came to the conclusion that billionaire mogul Rupert Murdoch is “not fit” to run a major international company. The news comes, of course, on...

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‘The Newsroom’: Journalism, but better

Ahh, inspiration… It’s been a good while now since I’ve posted anything about journalism or politics (or for that matter, anything besides flash fiction), but this afternoon I finally got around to...

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How Literacy Has Made the World a Better Place (And Can Again)

I was clicking through YouTube last week, procrastinating (that’s redundant, right?), when somehow my eye strayed from the cat videos long enough to be caught by some slightly more serious videos...

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This week in writing history: The Catcher in the Rye

On July 16, 1951, J.D. Salinger published a book that just about everyone (in this country, at least) has had to read at one point or another: The Catcher in the Rye. Some people love it, and some...

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