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Web censorship: the net is closing in

Customers at an internet cafe in Guilin, China, where the government places severe restrictions on web access. Photograph: Martin Puddy/ Martin Puddy/Corbis Every state in the world has its own laws,…
PUBLISHED: April 23, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2202 words)
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Danse Macabre

Sergei Yurevich Filin, a man of early middle age and improbable beauty, sat behind the wheel of his car on a winter night driving toward home. It was 10 degrees Fahrenheit in the center of Moscow, a…
PUBLISHED: March 18, 2013
LENGTH: 43 minutes (10847 words)

How to Write Like a Mother#^@%*

In August 2010, a young writer named Elissa Bassist moved from San Francisco to Brooklyn to start working on an MFA in creative nonfiction. After living in New York for just two weeks, she wrote a…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3771 words)

The Savaged Hawkman: What latest DC casualty says about New 52

According to recent convention scuttlebutt, DC Comics is apparently canceling its latest Hawkman series, the New 52-launched Savage Hawkman, perhaps as early as May’s Issue 19. That is not the…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2246 words)

On Writing Full-Time (circa 2013)

As promised, what follows is the speech I gave to Borderlands Boot Camp at Towson University last weekend. I was asked to talk about how to make a living as a full-time writer — the perils,…
AUTHOR:Brian
PUBLISHED: Jan. 29, 2013
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4811 words)
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Notable narrative: Eli Saslow and the swimming pool salesman

Eli Saslow’s stories for the Washington Post and ESPN The Magazine show a narrative journalist in control of his craft. The guy is incapable of writing a forgettable story. If you…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 22, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (520 words)
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For Obama, the Clock's Running in His Own Head Now

Photograph by Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty If he loses, the president will be treated as a kind of meteor — bright, lovely, and ultimately a burst of flame that passed quickly as the country got…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 4, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1332 words)

Of Routines, Rivalries, and Risks

The conjurer himself ... casts his spell not with the starry lure of titillation nor, in the manner of many noir masters, a scene of such keen violence that we are stunned into submission. No, no.…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 27, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2180 words)

Game Maker Without a Rule Book

Animators and artists at Valve. The company tries to foster unorthodox thinking by having no traditional management structure. THIS is no Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. Every way I look, the scene…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 8, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (883 words)
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