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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-24 If you think Twitter needs a value proposition, well,...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-08 Read David Lipsky’s Rolling Stone profile of DFW, looking...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-24 This Red Mango place is awful. Who wants to...

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San Jose Mercury: Amazon board member Doerr also a Kepler’s contributor John Doerr, well-known Silicon Valley venture capitalist and board member...

Winning Eleven and Amazon I pre-ordered Winning Eleven Pro Evolution Soccer for Xbox 360...

Response to Amazon removing books from users’ Kindles David Ulin writes in the LA Times about Amazon’s latest:...

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Yves Bonnefoy out of obscurity When I was a freshman in college, I asked one...

Jonathan Franzen and Charlie Brown Jonathan Franzen has an essay on Charles Schulz in this...

Delays this week Sorry for the absence of posts. We know, we know—You’re...

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The New Yorker profile of David Foster Wallace D.T. Max’s  profile of DFW, which runs in this week’s...

David Foster Wallace on Bookworm I enjoyed Michael Silverblatt’s recent interview of DFW on KCRW’s...

Watch Video of Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address ...

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Photoshop for real From Flickr, here is a real life version of the Adobe...

Can the NYT’s glossy-style sections subsidize real news coverage? Is his Public Editor column in Sunday’s New York Times,...

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-31 Why you shouldn't update Instapaper on your iPhone to...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-08 Read David Lipsky’s Rolling Stone profile of DFW, looking...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-05 Sherman Alexie at #BEA09: “I saw a woman in...

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Habitats – For a Writer, a Home With a Hideout – NYTimes.com Today’s New York Times profiles novelist Roxana Robinson. I can’t...

Memories of Kepler’s and Weekend Photos People from all over have been sending in their memories...

Weekend Round-up The Contra Costa Times summarizes and laments the state of...

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The most popular independent bookstores in America (on Twitter) NFI Research has compiled a list of the independent bookstores...

New York Times Coverage John Markoff has an article about the closing of Kepler’s...

Booksmith beats the odds The San Francisco Chronicle recently ran a story about the recent...

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Reactions to the iPad Adam Gopnik and other New Yorker staffers responded to Apple’s...

How to get AppleCare cheap? The answer is eBay. Like many but not enough people, I understand that extended...

My favorite things of 2009 Here’s a list of things from 2009 that I particularly...

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