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Self-publish, or learn to fly?

Literary agent Colleen Lindsay this morning tweeted Laura Miller’s recent Salon article about how the future of literature will be shaped by e-book and on-demand print self-publishing services.  Miller observes that these services promote themselves as a means to circumvent the “elite literary gatekeepers,” and that their customers are really authors, not readers.  She points out,

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Study: Dinosaurs would devour our celebrity athletes

Found this at FauxNews*: Study: Tyrannosaurus Rex Could Outrun Most Humans My absolute favorite line in the article is: “While not incredibly fast, this carnivore [T. rex] was certainly capable of running and would have little difficulty in chasing down footballer David Beckham, for instance,” Manning said. What a downer. If dinosaurs were alive today,

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