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  1. Opinion: #Facebook threatens to 'Zuck up' the human race cnn.com/2012/05/30/tec… #cnn #robots #identity #simulacrum #judgement about 8 hours ago via Tweet Button
  2. The Inequality Speech That #TED Won't Show You roundtable.nationaljournal.com/2012/05/the-in… 1:03 PM May 23rd via Tweet Button
  3. Follow up to previous tweet: businesswebpagecreation.com/selfpublishing… 6:35 AM May 17th via web
  4. “The #book world is a crappy world…. It asks a lot more of you [compared to music world] and gives you even less.” Mark E. Smith, #TheFall 6:32 AM May 17th via web
  5. Most delicious part of Man City's title: United had already begun to celebrate! Way to wipe that smirk off Fergie's face, Blues! #MCFC 7:39 AM May 14th via web
  6. Craft Note: Serious Day Jobs and the Grave Dangers of a "Twinned" Existence: maximumfiction.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/cra… #writing #DayJob #balance #Pynchon 8:07 AM May 4th via web
  7. Epistolary reflections on "Innovative Writing" maximumfiction.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/cra… #writing #fiction #InnovativeWriting 1:28 PM Apr 30th via web
  8. Should've taken the day off to watch the Derby: Come on, City! #ManCity #ManchesterDerby #MCFC 8:32 AM Apr 30th via web
  9. See them on the beach / or in New York City youtu.be/2Z79XQQ0I00 #Karmadoza #B-52s 9:29 PM Apr 26th via web
  10. 2-way conversations can be great. So can books. To valorize one over the other is a curious enterprise at best: futurebook.mit.edu/tag/davis-schn… 10:14 AM Apr 26th via web
  11. I hate it when the classical station drops in some #opera. Such screeching...! 9:01 AM Apr 25th via web
  12. @DAGrill The latkes look delicious! 6:09 AM Apr 20th via web in reply to DAGrill
  13. One man, one #typewriter, one dream: n.pr/IS6N4m #poetry 9:22 AM Apr 17th via Tweet Button
  14. #Pulitzer finds way to save 10,000 measly bucks: no prize for #fiction this year. 1:20 PM Apr 16th via web
  • Name Ed Desautels
  • Location Pittsburgh, PA
  • Web http://maximumfic...
  • Bio Writer of sheer fiction, unrepentant prose stylist, golfer, and operator of the blog Maximum Fiction. Author of novel Flicker in the Porthole Glass.
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