Monthly Archives: July 2009

Linking and Fact-checking: Best Served Together

Posted on 29 July 2009 by

[Splice Today] Over at Splice Today, I’ve got a story on linking, fact-checking, and Nicholson Baker’s great New Yorker essay on the Kindle. Again, the point isn’t that Baker and co. made a mistake—and it’s about as small a mistake … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Sam Anderson

Posted on 29 July 2009 by

[The Rumpus] Over at The Rumpus, I’ve got a long interview with Sam Anderson, the book critic at New York magazine. He had a lot of interesting things to say about reading and reviewing, online and off, so check it … Continue reading →

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Prepreprofessionalism

Posted on 28 July 2009 by

The academic journal College Literature just published my essay on applying to grad school. You can read it here on Project MUSE, or visit this site’s archive for an open-access .pdf. As in most academic publishing, this took positively forever … Continue reading →

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The Freelance Life

Posted on 13 July 2009 by

[x-posted at The Rumpus] The latest issue of the Oxford American includes their annual “Best of the South” package, but it’s also got an essay on the struggles of freelancing, a subject that knows no geographical bounds. For almost 20 … Continue reading →

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LeBron Being LeBron

Posted on 9 July 2009 by

[x-posted at PopMatters] Two bits of news reminded me of a story I wrote last summer for PopMatters. In the first, CBS Sports reported that, after Xavier’s Jordan Crawford threw down an ostensibly monstrous dunk on LeBron James, Nike operatives … Continue reading →

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