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Excellent writing advice gleaned from Breadloaf.

Alice Munro withdraws from prize competition because she’s already won twice. I love her confidence.

Dzanc has some new podcasts up.

A One Day Poem Pavilion.

30 Days of GUD, culminating in a drawing for a Kindle 2.

On the Gmail outage.

Two different ways to design a bookstore.

Flatmancrooked wants to hear your pitches in Brooklyn, NY on 9/27.

Google and Amazon can’t play nice over e-books.

Changing college composition.

A fantastic interview with Rebecca Solnit at The Believer.

The Southern Review is looking for writing about baseball.

Sean Lovelace, briefly concerning flash fiction.

Felicia Sullivan on the culture of entitlement.

The Agriculture Reader No. 3 is on sale through September. I’ve read the issue and it’s fantastic. I’ll talk about it later this week, hopefully.

A Charles Dickens themed amusement park. We had the best of times.