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Rachel: lover of all things languagey; lover in general; part-time wannabe storm chaser; full-time book junkie; ranter; sarcasm and teasing enthusiast; versatility at its finest and worst; the future English teacher that your children will be forever baffled by; always more to add Blog: a plethora of I don't know what

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Settling in to be another clear night and pretty evening here in Night Vale. I hope all of you out there have someone to sleep through it with. Or, at least, good memories of when you did.

Goodnight, listeners. Goodnight.

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Today in Book News: At The Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal writes that Amazon’s recommendation algorithm has created an accidental starter kit for drug dealers: “One day, some drug dealer bought a particular digital scale — the AWS-100 — on the retail site, Amazon.com. And then another drug dealer bought the same scale. Then another. Then another. Amazon’s data-tracking software watched what else these people purchased, and now, if you buy the AWS-100 scale, Amazon serves up a quickstart kit for selling drugs.”

Also, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ health is stable but fragile after a recent hospitalization, E.L. Doctorow wins the 2014 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and poet Patricia Lockwood wonders whether poetry is work.

Read more here.

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Secrets (Haiku)

There was passion, then. Quiet insecurity. Butterflies, be still.

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Fantasia's interpretation of "Dance of the Hours", or the musical allegory of my relationship with English papers. I am the hippo, and the crocodile is the paper; it chases me, we come together and split apart, all while his friends are chasing my friends. We have a complicated courtship.