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    weekly offering (july 30-aug 5)

    Internet researcher and feminist danah boyd chimes in on the Google+ "nymwars"

    "Flash robs," short-duration crime sprees organized through social media

    "Own Your Own Content Farm," a cartoon

    A reading list for writers of narrative nonfiction

    Ten books that will tell you everything you need to know about culture

    Six lectures from Jorge Luis Borges, recently uncovered in the Harvard University Archives, freely downloadable

    Small Fates: author Teju Cole uncovers tiny narratives in the Lagos newspapers

    Infinite City, a book of maps both beautiful and beautifully pointed

    How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, a novel about a man raising a sickly automobile

    House of Holes, the final book in Nicholson Baker's "sex trilogy" (the New York Times Magazine reports)

    Controlled Burn: Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men

    Michael Moorcock on how to write a book in three days (from 1992)

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