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February 01, 2008

Fine Lines: It's Like Eating Your Favorite Book
By Sharon Steel

Okay, we feel badly for calling out Jezebel about the whole bitter thing -- it's not all the time! it's just about certain stuff! and we understand how they feel because excessive shallowness is annoying! -- but anyway, we are kissing their collective bums over this Friday Fine Lines feature that they've been running for the past while.

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February 01, 2008

Swag Off
By Sharon Steel

This Thursday Styles piece about beauty bloggers and swag is basically just repackages a million-year old story about beauty editors (or fashion editors, or whatever kind of editor) and the swag that they're inundated with on a regular basis.

What's funny is the subsequent debate that flared up on Jezebel

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May 03, 2007

Michael Chabon accused of Anti-Semitism
By Sharon Steel

Radar's Gutter Report just alerted us to a new media brouhaha revolving around MICHAEL CHABON. The NY Post's Kyle Smith calls out Chabon (who is Jewish) for the supposedly anti-Semitic themes in his latest tour-de-force, The Yiddish Policeman's Unit. It's a 411-page mystery/noir homage/love story/historical mind-bender about the Jews of the Sikta District in Alaska -- a fictional safe haven built after Israel collapsed in 1948.

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Boston Phoenix
The Book of Clouds
Published 11/12/2010 by EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
As books turn into data and tweets are archived for posterity, how will readers and academics cope with the detritus of a digital age?