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Apr 11, 2010
No CommentsLong Live the Storytellers: Four Books About Writing
As a profession, writing seems to require periodic expressions of its own purpose, function, and value. Writers find themselves, at some point in their writing lives, inspired or required to consider the worth of their work in relation to a broad and ever-elusive concept of human as social animal. This critical self-evaluation extends beyond the kind...
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Apr 09, 2010
4 CommentsI Don’t Know Tiger . . . or the Kardashians
Is it possible to argue that the “culture of celebrity” encourages us to believe that we know these strange and mythical Titans, the Celebrities? Are we encouraged to think about them as familiars, as peers? Does seeing celebrity faces paper the halls of popular media enable us to think that a face is a person? ...