Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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November 28, 2006 KR Blog Uncategorized

Short Takes

How the open access movement is being expanded to encompass science (one and two).

There is no such thing as nonfiction. There is no such thing as truth. People who really know what happened aren’t talking. (via Syntax of Things)

In interviews Paul Thomas Anderson has admitted that he wrote the critically acclaimed Magnolia as an “adaptation of Aimee Mann songs.”

“It’ll come out eventually, but who wants to volunteer to check to see how many of the writers of these books have also written for The New York Times?” Jessa Crispin wants to know. I want to know: Why are Digging to America and The Possibility of an Island on this list? A librarian answered Crispin’s question; who wants to take mine?

Do we have footage of Sacha thanking Pam after the kidnapping scene, praising her for the naturalness of her acting, promising to do lunch, handing her a check, etc., etc.? What I love about this is the way it very clearly says: Gotcha! We celebrities are Us, you non-celebs are You. Stay on your side of the line, No-Name.

“Everyone has heard things much worse things in the hallway at school or on the bus to school or on the Internet,” says one student. “Pulling this book really is not going to shelter a kid.”

Ted Hughes was tall and rough-featured and dark, with a dark baritone voice…

The lawyers for what corporation objected to the use of the corporation’s name as the title of Don DeLillo’s White Noise?

Have you come nearly to the end of NaNoWriMo and found that you’ve not finished? Don’t fret.