Bites: Reading Rainbow, Doctorow’s latest, a Twitter opera, and more

R.I.P. Butterfly in the Sky.  (If you can’t place the line, Reading Rainbow is dead.) E.L Doctorow’s new novel Homer and Langley is ready, and reviewers can’t stop comparing it to Ragtime.  Okay, he’s a “special genius for ellipsis,” blah blah blah.  Whatever, “the scandalous allure of a New York tabloid series” is totally exciting to me. On the High Line, there is a new art installation visible especially at night.  While not naked hotel-guests, the exhilerating sense of that […]

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Cosigning: Twitter is Not Apocalyptic (Neither is This Blog)

Anne Trubek, a Rhetoric and Comp professor at Oberlin, considers social media in an optimistic light for More Intelligent Life. From her essay “We Are All Writers Now”: My friends and I write more than we used to, often more than we talk. We correspond with each other and to colleagues, school teachers, utility companies. We send e-mails to our local newspaper reporters about their stories; we write to magazine editors to tell them what we think. And most of […]

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