writing Stephen King's shameless self-promotion on NY Times' "best books" list amuses and outrages Natalie Dressed
literature Cornell English Department votes to change name to "Department of Literatures In English" Thom Dunn
manga Yoshiharu Tsuge: the first manga artist who used his personal life as story material Mark Frauenfelder
apps Monty Python co-founder Terry Jones's last major project was this Canterbury Tales app David Pescovitz
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books How Ken Liu went from engineer to lawyer to SF writer to the foremost translator of Chinese sf into English Cory Doctorow
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Games Translator upset after unintended KKK reference removed from English version of Japanese game Rob Beschizza
art New show of Scott Albrecht's exquisite deconstructed typographical art opening in L.A. David Pescovitz
books China's "ultra-unreal" literary movement takes inspiration from breathtaking corruption Cory Doctorow
