Ah, the life of a writer. (via the PEN/Faulkner Foundation)
What participation in social media comes down to, I think, is that either you have an instinct for broadcasting your life, or you don’t. Mary MacLane would have been a natural.
Emily St. John Mandel, ”I Await the Devil’s Friend Request: On Social Media and Mary MacLane”
Sandberg does not mention pleasure. Sandberg assumes instead that the feminist question is simply, how can I be a more successful worker?…Sandberg has penned not so much a new Feminine Mystique as an updated Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
At Dissent, Kate Losse, herself a former Facebook employee, critiques Sheryl Sandberg’s new and controversial Lean In.
Hey, if you’re not a fan of our Facebook page, you’re missing out on some Taiwanese and Irish literary artifacts.
I remember the rush, that thrill of being winked at from across a crowded (cyber) room. In that moment, I got it — what all this fuss about social networking was about. Give the tools a try, just be yourself; write what you care about. Weird things will start to happen, some of them might be good.
Sonya Chung, “Confessions of an Analogian Writing for the Webs”
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![Though not exactly the first to do so, Kyle Rutkin is asking for $4,000 on Kickstarter to fund his writing a novel entirely through the Facebook timeline.
[Image from Kyle’s Kickstarter page]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5zelk8XI11r6xvfko1_1280.jpg)
Though not exactly the first to do so, Kyle Rutkin is asking for $4,000 on Kickstarter to fund his writing a novel entirely through the Facebook timeline.
[Image from Kyle’s Kickstarter page]
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