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What Great Expectations Would Look Like Today
What Great Expectations Would Look Like Today
By Adina Applebaum
August 01, 2014

Written in 2014, Charles Dickens’s serialized novel would be released on Twitter — and be a hell of a lot shorter.

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What Would Zora Neale Hurston Think of Crowdfunding? And Other Important Questions
What Would Zora Neale Hurston Think of Crowdfunding? And Other Important Questions
By Rhys Griffiths
July 29, 2014

Biographers fill in our favorite writers’ takes on big-brand fashion, the War on Drugs and other aspects of modern life.

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How Should We Celebrate Amazon’s 19th Anniversary?
How Should We Celebrate Amazon’s 19th Anniversary?
By Michelle King
July 16, 2014

On the anniversary of Amazon’s first sale — a book, nonetheless — a reader examines her relationship with the online retailer.

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#FridayReads: What the Black Balloon Publishing Team is Reading This Week
#FridayReads: What the Black Balloon Publishing Team is Reading This Week
By Black Balloon Publishing
June 20, 2014

Women by Bukowski, an oral history of Street Fighter II, Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem — how is it that we’re even friends?

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Black Balloon Publishing's Favorite Culture Blogs
Black Balloon Publishing's Favorite Culture Blogs
By Black Balloon Publishing
June 18, 2014

Your list of must-check websites just got a little longer.

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Voices from the Past: Old-School Authors Reading on Youtube
Voices from the Past: Old-School Authors Reading on Youtube
By George Dobbs
June 03, 2014

Yeats, Tolkien, Woolf — YouTube is a time capsule of authors’ voices you probably never thought you’d ever hear.

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He is Providence: An H. P. Lovecraft Primer & 5 Stories Free to Read Online
He is Providence: An H. P. Lovecraft Primer & 5 Stories Free to Read Online
By Benjamin Welton
May 29, 2014

We look back on the five stories that best represent the nihilistic mythology of H. P. Lovecraft.

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Grinders: Tomorrow's Cyberpunks are Here Today [NSFW]
Grinders: Tomorrow's Cyberpunks are Here Today [NSFW]
By David Forbes
May 23, 2014

Installing magnets, microchips and sensors in their own bodies — this is how cyberpunk biohackers went from fiction to reality.

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Want to Read Smarter? There's an App for That
Want to Read Smarter? There's an App for That
By Michelle King
May 15, 2014

Actually, there are at least seven great apps that can help you up your reading game.

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Say Cheese: Our 10 Favorite Authors on Instagram
Say Cheese: Our 10 Favorite Authors on Instagram
By Adina Applebaum
April 16, 2014

Gary Shteyngart, Tao Lin, Dani Shapiro and the rest of the writers on this list might not be the best at Instagram, but they are trying, and for that they have our hearts.

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