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Mediocre spy Ernest Hemingway<\/p><\/div>\n

  • Ernest Hemingway\u2019s World War II spying career <\/a>was less than illustrious. In fact, when it came to one ill-fated Cuban operation, Papa was downright bumbling. <\/li>\n
  • Meet The Musalman<\/em>, a handwritten<\/em> Urdu daily<\/a> that has been published continuously since 1927 in Chennai, India.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cIt hurts<\/em> to be rejected, and it hurts even more when you walk into a real bookstore, one with chirpy sales clerks and splashy book covers, and see truly godawful books by authors represented by some of these very same agents.\u201d Michael Borne <\/a>on how to weather the agent-finding process. <\/li>\n
  • Generation Y (those born between 1979 and 1989) outspent Boomers in books<\/a> for the first time last year. <\/li>\n
  • Check out Electric Literature\u2019s Single Sentence Animations\u2014in which an artist animates a favorite sentence from a writer\u2019s story\u2014here<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • Dough Country for Old Men<\/a> (subtitle: \u201cAs I Lay Frying\u201d) is a blog that juxtaposes literary quotes against images of doughnuts. <\/li>\n

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    Ernest Hemingway\u2019s World War II spying career was less than illustrious. In fact, when it came to one ill-fated Cuban operation, Papa was downright bumbling. Meet The Musalman, a handwritten Urdu daily that has been published continuously since 1927 in Chennai, India. \u201cIt hurts to be rejected, and it hurts even more when you walk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[8446,2167,7649,571,149,20543,7723,8445,4428,157,75],"class_list":["post-37180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-agents","tag-doughnuts","tag-electric-literature","tag-ernest-hemingway","tag-news","tag-on-the-shelf","tag-roundup","tag-the-musalman","tag-urdu","tag-writers","tag-writing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHemingway, Urdu, Doughnuts by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 16, 2012 \u2013 Ernest Hemingway\u2019s World War II spying career was less than illustrious. 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