What is the most overrated book in the world?

For you: a copy of ARK CODEX ±0. Comment to win, and I’ll respond to the winner in a day or so. I have this book at home and it is beautiful.

The New Yorker‘s diaeresis tic bothers some people.  It’s the double-dot thing they put in words like “coöperate” to tell you to pronounce both syllables.  It’s also “the single thing that readers of the letter-writing variety complain about most.”  As I read this piece about it, I kept waiting for Mary Norris to announce that they’d finally decided to change their style.  But apparently the diaeresis lives on.  What do you think, is the diaeresis annoying or endearing?  (I like it.)  Diaeresis.

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You are friends with writers even if you don’t like respect their writing: true or false?

Students/Teachers: Do you remember reading a story or poem by someone in your creative writing workshop and being truly amazed by it?

Who wrote it? What was interesting or peculiar about it?

Listening to this Ben Lerner interview from Minnesota Public Radio is similar to attaining an MFA in Poetry.

If there’s any one good way to make writing even more irrelevant in the world it’s by doting over ceremonial bullshit that never meant anything in the first place.

Like its predecessor, HEATH (plagiarism/outsource), HEATH COURSE PAK exists somewhere between a Project Gutenberg version of Samuel Pepys’ Diary and a minute-to-minute news feed and blog of Heath Ledger’s death. Sad, appropriated, lyrical and confused, the book contains a brief history of recent performance art, a legal defense of plagiarism, the diary of a poetry workshop at the Asian American Writer’s Workshop, an MP3 protest song, and an examination of SMS and GMS technologies as distribution networks for human sadness. Multi-authored, and with numerous text blocks and photos, HEATH COURSE PAK adds a multivalent commentary to its first edition, once again in full color.

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