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By Kathryn 

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  • Old Hag uses cutting-edge technologies to spy on Michael Chabon.
  • Jennifer Weiner presents ‘How to Query the New Yorker (if you are a Female Writer of Popular Fiction who Does Not Look like Nell Freudenberg).’ “Step thirteen (ongoing): Convince yourself you didn’t want to write for those snobs anyhow. ”
  • The Chicago Tribune, celebrating Ayn Rand’s 100th, calls Atlas Shrugged a radiation leak.
  • New York Magazine loiters at the NBCC nominations party.
  • “… There ought to be a limit to the number of times an author can deliver the same goods”: the Guardian imagines rules that could save it from reviewing Anita Brooker’s novels.