More and more of our jobs are replaced by software, robots, and other forms of technology. Of course, in their mad quest to cut payroll, corporations forget that, bereft of a paycheck, not to mention will (thus far, anyway), technology can’t buy their goods and services as theirs and other corporations’ paid employees would. For now, we’ll just file that under the category of “Suppose They Threw an Economy and No One Came” and move on to the theme of this post.

Author Junot Diaz recently published a critique of the “whiteness” of MFA programs in The New Yorker's blogs section. This is a shortened version of his intro to the VONA anthology, Dismantle: An Anthology of Writings from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop.

The Twitter and Tumblr campaign of #WeNeedDiverseBooks, an initiative aimed at highlighting just how lacking in diversity the literary world is, especially books for young adults and children, kicked off on May 1st. Coming as it does on the heels of criticism of the BEA (Book Expo America) and BookCon’s nearly all-white line-up, and alongside Junot Diaz’s incisive essay on The New Yorker’s blog, MFA vs.