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by mensah demary on 5.05.10

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YA Section, Happy Teens!

by mensah demary on 4.30.10

in Books

Call it a lack of interest, but my town’s local bookstore closed about two years ago. A mom and pop shop. I assumed a chain store would swoop in to save the day, but no dice. As of today, there are no bookstores in my little burg (there’s still the library, thank God). My wife to be and I, both avid readers and writers, take a monthly trip 30 miles north to the nearest bookstore. A trip with a new adventure every time. Go In, Go In…

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X Still Matters (to me)

04.29.2010
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Life before and after reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

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Superpowers and Such

03.31.2010
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A writer writing about writing? Novel!

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Review: “Reality Hunger” by David Shields

03.11.2010
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The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.
Plots are for dead people.
The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.
A seemingly scatterbrained collage of quotes and one-liners, Reality Hunger will do two things: [...]

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(Not)Thinking About Getting An E-Reader

03.02.2010
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Posting live from the Android…at my desk, in my cubicle, no less. I’ll add to this later, but I think I want an e-reader. There’s this growing suspicion that I could actually read more and, perhaps, faster with, essentially, a virtual library to supplement my personal, physical one. Just a thought for now. [...]

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So Many Gadgets, So Little Writing

03.02.2010
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Four journals. Three pens. A Macbook as my primary unit. Followed by the DROID. Up next, a netbook (tethered to the DROID for 3G web). Then, the desktop PC. A 1940ish typewriter I need to fix. My fiancee’s laptop if necessary. My work laptop (sometimes at work). The iPod touch. I [...]

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