The results of the Guardian's "rewrite the ending of the new Harry Potter in the style of a famous author" contest are in, and just go to show that pastiche (pace Fredric Jameson) is harder than it looks. The Irvine Welsh and Dan Brown entries are quite funny, tho.
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Here's an open letter to the Kansas Board of Education that everybody ought to sign on to.
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And check out Charles Bernstein invoking Adorno to the Times in re/ his and Brian Ferneyhough's Walter Benjamin opera.
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