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The book as a “memory palace”: alternative approach to the e-book experience

April 13, 2012by Kevin Eagan 1 Comment

In my last post, I defended e-book reading as immersive and highly pleasurable. I stand by this argument, and have supported e-book reading since I bought my first kindle two […]

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criticism, future of the book

Thoughts on “The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books”

March 19, 2011by Kevin Eagan 1 Comment

Currently at the top of my “to read” list on Goodreads is The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books. Promoted heavily at one of my favorite online […]

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book, criticism, reading, writing

A Year in Big Books: New Blog Feature

March 13, 2011by Kevin Eagan 1 Comment

I am a fan of short, compact fiction. I like short stories, micro-fiction, novellas…the majority of novels I read fall into the average 250-300 page range, or shorter. The common […]

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About Kevin Eagan

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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  5. Thought Catalog
  6. kimlovesdee
  7. Today's Author
  8. jessicaminiermabe
  9. Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine
  10. DON'T READ
  11. qwiklit.com
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  13. Pot Versus Kettle
  14. Eleventh Hour Fiction
  15. The Story Shack
  16. Reassigned Time 2.0
  17. Books Around The Table
  18. The Task at Hand
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  20. This Is How Mom Rolls
  21. betweenasleepandawake
  22. A little life in the Big Easy
  23. I Love My Kindle
  24. Hiking Photography
  25. The Misfortune Of Knowing
  26. the dog ate my novel
  27. reading interrupted.
  28. Poetry Genius
  29. Game4Learning
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  32. natethayer
  33. Florence in Print
  34. developing writers
  35. susan sheldon nolen
  36. THE LITERARY MAN
  37. Nail Your Novel
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  39. biblioklept
  40. Filmologìe of monsters and little princesses

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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

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

natethayer

A compilation of current reporting and archived published work of journalist Nate Thayer

Florence in Print

A blog about reading, writing, and everything in between.

developing writers

Anna Smith, educational researcher & teacher educator blogging about composition in the digital age, contexts for learning, theories of development, and global youth.

susan sheldon nolen

"Life isn’t about finding yourself.  Life is about creating yourself.” - George Bernard Shaw

THE LITERARY MAN

Nail Your Novel

Nail Your Novel - Writing, publishing and self-publishing advice from a bestselling ghostwriter and book doctor

another space oddity

CyberSpace: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship E.R.P. Its five-week mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new conversations, to boldly go with thousands of random strangers to colonise the mooc - coursera's "eLearning & digital cultures"...

biblioklept

Filmologìe of monsters and little princesses

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