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Once in a while—I mean, pretty often actually, if you follow this, and once in a while if you’re just watching it casually—you see writers blow their top at the underground.
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Here is Dave Eggers in…
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Before we had to ask Brookyn to “shut up” due to an influx of preciousness, Jonathan Safran Foer, and five-dollar organic cookies, poet
Walt Whitman lived there—way back in the 1850s.
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Paragraph NY is a Manhattan “work space for writers.” It’s nicer and quieter than your apartment, and don’t worry: “Publication is not required for a membership; only serious intent and a…\x0a
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he wants YOU, the insider, to tell him why…\x0a
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No one, including Violet Blue herself, has any idea what’s behind the scrubbing, reports David Sarno. “BoingBoing has been conspicuously silent; despite considerable…\x0a
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