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Music and Nostalgia: A Review of Mystery Pill by Kevin Davis

September 2, 2012by Kevin Eagan Leave a comment

It’s been ten years since I graduated High School. I’m in my late-twenties, and I’ve spent too much time looking back on the past and longing for a better future. […]

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kindle and laptop

Defending the E-book, Despite its Flaws

April 13, 2012by Kevin Eagan 1 Comment

But are these old habits essential? Mightn’t they actually be distracting us from the written word itself? Weren’t there perhaps specific pleasures when reading on parchment scroll that we know […]

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essay, essays, future of the book, reading
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The Digital Margins: Will Kindle Singles Save Digital Literature?

March 21, 2011by Kevin Eagan 1 Comment

Back in October, Amazon released a new ebook publishing platform called Kindle Singles. The idea of Kindle Singles is to allow publishers and authors a platform to sell short-form ebooks […]

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Kevin Eagan is a college writing teacher and freelance editor who is passionate about reading, technology and digital culture. He writes about these passions at Critical Margins. You can follow him on twitter: @criticalmargins.

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Finding Your Pen

Starting to write is simply a matter of finding your pen.

Mike D. O'Brien

Meanderings of a writer collecting stories as a bartender

quotiddly

words arranged well

Joanna Funk

a life with music

Craig Hart Online

The Official Home of Author Craig A. Hart

EditWright

Kevin Eagan's blog about writing, books, and everyday digital ephemera.

Ideas

Essential Insights. Great Debates. Informed Opinions.

S. A. Williams - Author, Reader, & More

Musings & general nonsense about writing

Building Feedly

Re-imagine how people keep in touch with their favorite sites.

The D/A Dialogues

mindfulmagpie

what's shiny today?

Me and the Girl from Clapham

tomstandage.com

Thought Catalog

kimlovesdee

D for DAINTY DREAMER!

Today's Author

Just keep writing...

jessicaminiermabe

a site for my stuff

Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine

"DON'T READ"

a blog by Ensis

Qwiklit

feygrrl

Writings - Mostly Naughty & Some Nice

Pot Versus Kettle

a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking

Eleventh Hour Fiction

Glimpses, Whims, Notions and Bits of Reality by Tiffany Greenfield

The Story Shack

Flash Fiction. Illustrations. Every Day.

Reassigned Time 2.0

There may be a time and a place for everything. The difficulty is figuring out when and where.

Books Around The Table

A potluck of ideas from four children's book authors and illustrators

The Task at Hand

A Writer's On-Going Search for Just the Right Word

exlibrislarsen

The same 26 letters, newly arranged just for you...

This Is How Mom Rolls

A Little Look at Life on Da East Side. Word.

betweenasleepandawake

The place of true inspiration

A little life in the Big Easy

a place for this and that

I Love My Kindle

Fun and information about the Kindle and the world of e-books

Hiking Photography

The Misfortune Of Knowing

Books, Writing, and the Law

the dog ate my novel

and other publishing adventures of kellie larsen murphy

reading interrupted.

because reading also involves the way your head leans on your hand as you bend over a book, the damp mark you leave on a page when reading in the tub, or being interrupted by a

Poetry Genius

Annotating the canon. With your help.

Game4Learning

Fun Learning Resouces for Kids

lonely daffodil

Writing is to discover

Archive 7

the john seven collection

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