Culturally Speaking #49: The Newish One
By Sarah Stodola
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Note: Culturally Speaking did not appear last week due to technical problems with the website. Some of the stuff below was meant to run then, so if it seems at all dated, that's why...
A lovely little blurb by Margaret Atwood about the publication of her first book.
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This is the best NYE pic I've ever seen, in a completely wholesome and nostalgic kind of way.
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I don't know about you, but as a writer I actually have little to no idea how publishing houses actually function. This little bit on Maud Newton offers a tiny glimpse...
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Paul Krugman is back from his break at the Times, and he's going on a tear over Social Security! The Bush Administration's plan to privatize SS is something we need to be very, very concerned about, and who better than Paul Krugman to lay out exactly why...
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This is a real story:
Yes, yes indeed, a baby hippo and a 120-year-old turtle have become best friends.
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More evidence that AT&T sucks: A list of all donors to the upcoming presidential inauguration (via Beatrice). I have to say, boycotting these companies in particular seems like a much better idea than boycotting all companies on Inauguration Day, as some are suggesting as a form of protest. "All companies" don't deserve that...
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Last year, as we compiled Me Three's list of the Top Ten Albums of 2003, I began to wonder if any such lists existed for classical music. I consulted Google and came up empty, thus concluding that no such list existed. But this year, The New Yorker has stepped up with its picks...
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Sweden was seen as the ideal country, and then it wasn't, and now maybe it is again.
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The print journal here and if we do say so ourselves, it's lovely. We're planning a release party, probably for next weekend. Stay tuned. You can buy the journal here.
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You have a couple of weeks left to nominate you favorite online fiction of 2004 in the Million Writers contest.
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Sarah Stodola is the Executive Editor of Me Three. She can be contacted here.
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