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chrishebert

  1. More bad news in the university press world: "University of Missouri Press is closing": ow.ly/b9MVh
  2. @stpears Thanks! 7 days of infamy.
  3. "Postcard from the Earth." On the first attempted launch of SpaceX. From the desk of @mlazarusdean: ow.ly/b3ugi #DragonLaunch
  4. What I've learned from watching Cave of Forgotten Dreams: even by the standards of 30,000 years ago, I would've been a crappy artist.
  5. Alternatively, Ricketts, you could invest some money into making the Cubs not suck.
  6. Margaret Lazarus Dean and Christopher Hebert: The Hot Literary Couple Next Door: ow.ly/aYsaP by the much too kind @carigervin
  7. I shouldn't, but it's hard to read about gold in Haiti and not go straight to everything that could go horribly wrong: ow.ly/aXmk1
  8. I'm looking for essays on what editors do and on the collaborative relationship between author an editor. Anyone seen anything good lately?
  9. @callie_joyce @LiteracyYEG Thanks. I'm glad you liked it.
  10. No one more deserving: "Author Charles Baxter wins $30,000 Rea Award for short fiction; wrote ‘Harmony of the World’" ow.ly/aRZeg
  11. From @amygreenebr: God and Man in Tennessee: ow.ly/azNoa
  12. Thank you Henry Ford for making the Krispy Kreme donut conveyer belt possible.
  13. The gridlock approach has worked so well for Congress, the Pulitzer board figured they just had to give it a try for themselves.
  14. @pujkrishnan Thanks. I'm glad you liked it.
  15. The wrestling hotline number is going up on the fridge right next to the pediatrician and poison control.
  16. Oh, cable access amateur wrestling call-in show. Thanks for keepin it real, Tennessee.
  17. Always nice to discover that a road you accidentally took for a family drive has an official "death map": ow.ly/amEjJ
  18. @stpears No doubt it would sound much better in German.