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Mothers and fathers open up to college students about loss suffered when pledges to fraternities and sororities die as a result of hazing rituals. Correspondent Lee Cowan talks with anti-hazing advocates, and with representatives of the Greek community, who have joined forces in an effort to reform a long-accepted practice.
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No word would suffice to express the fluency with which these shorthand icons, which have supplanted words in texts and emails and on social media, have become a language unto themselves. Correspondent David Pogue talks with designers and gatekeepers for emoji, and finds out how new symbols are added to the lexicon.
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A series of controversies has called the industry’s supposed values into question.
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Seven years ago, when Amazon was in the midst of a contentious pricing battle with one of the country’s largest publishers, a group of famous authors banded together to make the case that publishing was a crucial industry for the nation’s cultural and intellectual life.
“Publishers provide venture capital for ideas,” the authors wrote. “They advance money to authors, giving them the time and freedom to write their books.… Thousands of times every year, publishers take a chance on unknown authors and advance them money solely on the basis of an idea. By assuming the risk, publishers expect and receive a financial return.” The letter was signed by a who’s who of American writers: Stephen King, Michael Chabon, Donna Tartt, Lee Child, Ron Chernow, Ann Patchett, and Robert Caro, among many others.
This is why I’m so incensed by all the praise and media the Ken Burns doc on Hemingway has been getting. I have despised Hemingway my entire life and have resented every time during my education that I’ve been forced to read his toxic literature. He represents everything I hate about the misogyny and white male point of view of so many in the publishing and literary worlds. He’s another, just like Roth is, who is given a pass on so much of his viewpoint and life just because he writes pretty words that affirm the white male point of view. It’s smothering and it just drives me crazy. I do not subscribe to the greatness of his works and I do not have any interest in his life story. It’s boringly typical of so many “great” artists. I feel the same about Picasso, so it’s not just literature.
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