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My word cloud

Saw this on Pavlov and just had to give it a burl. It looks at your blog and creates a word cloud which you can then put on a shirt. I thought it gave a pretty accurate picture of my warped brain (specially the prominence of ‘uncategorized’). Didn’t get it on a shirt though.

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Publish less

Jeanette Winterson’s thoughts on the future of the book: don’t publish things that were never meant to be books in the first place. Oh, where do I start…

Coming over all Pammy

Ok, so I’ve been reprimanded by my mother for ‘coming over all Pammy’ with my new Stack banner. Yeah, the one with the t**s. And yes, that is me. So I’ll probably be changing it, I know, it’s got nothing to do with books. I just liked the photo. Don’t hold your breath though…
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Yiyun Li: not good enough apparently

An interesting tidbit for those who don’t read Bookslut, Yuyin Li, whose book A Thousand Years of Good Prayers was reviewed in the SMH today by Linda Jaivin (sorry, no link), has had her application for US residency on the grounds of “extraordinary ability in the arts” denied on appeal.
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