Publishing News
diversity, History, literature, Marvel, problem book, science, sexuality, Sony, Spider-Man, vampires, YA
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“SO MANY (TOO MANY?) ISSUES”: PERCEPTIONS OF DIVERSITY IN BOOK REVIEWS, PART 2 – A very interesting and compelling post on the portrayal of minority identities in YA, specifically in terms of diverse YA novels being tagged as “issue” or… more
B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads
Humor, non-fiction, science
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“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and… more
B- Reviews/ C+ Reviews
astronaut, engineer, Mars, science, Science Fiction, survival
29 Comments
Dear Mr. Weir, I picked up your first novel, The Martian, because some of my friends had read and recommended it. It sounded geeky enough to please my engineer husband, so I suggested to him that we read it together…. more
Publishing News
BitTorrent, blood testing, Comics, cosplay, country music, gender, medical research, net neutrality, Satire, science, sexuality, web browsers
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DA has some January ad space. Email [email protected] Thanks! Zone 2: 25 SOV space Zone 3: 25 SOV space Leaderboard: 50 SOV space Project Maelstrom: The Internet We Build Next – So BitTorrent is in the process of trying to… more
Publishing News
BBC, Buzzfeed, History, New-York-Times, plagiarism, research, science, Sports, Wikipedia, World War I
The ravages of BuzzFeed’s Benny Johnson – This story has catalyzed a lot of debate about both the nature of plagiarism and the nature of (largely non-journalistic) Internet reporting. Benny Johnson, a 28-year-old writer for BuzzFeed, who has produced a… more
Publishing News
abuse, Amazon, DDOS attack, Ebooks, Evernote, feedly, Hachette, Lego, Marion Zimmer Bradley, science
Note: Some comments contain discussion and descriptions of abuse and sexual assault. Feedly, Evernote And Others Become Latest Victims Of DDoS Attacks – So in case you haven’t been online in the past two days, Feedly and Evernote were hit… more