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In our short time on the Web, the Los Angeles Review of Books has been a smashing success. We’ve become the home of some of the smartest, sharpest writing on books and culture you can find anywhere. What we haven’t been so good at is telling our community of readers how much we rely on them. As a non-profit organization, we depend on readers like you to pay our writers and editors and keep our magazine strong. 

Every article you’ve read at LARB was made possible by donations. Now we need your help. This week we’ve been given a fantastic opportunity. If we raise $10,000 by Friday we will get a matching grant of $10,000. We need your help to do it. Click the red button and you’ll be taken to a donation form generously hosted for us by UC Riverside.

If you are one of the thousands of people who have come to love the Los Angeles Review of Books, this is your week to show it. Give now, and help us stay strong in 2013. Please make sure you donate this week. If we don’t hit our target, we’ll miss out on a matching grant that could mean so much for our continued success. For a basic donation of $25 you’ll receive an annual subscription to our monthly magazine, LARB Digital Editions.

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• Media and expression: theses in tweetform by Nicholas Carr
  
  
• Kafka’s Wound: A digital essay by Will Self
  
  
• Rocket and Lightship: Meditations on life and letters by Adam Kirsch
  
  
• The Neighborhood Effect: On William Julius Wilson and Urban Sociology by Marc Perry
  
  
• Upper Middle Brow: The culture of the creative class by William Deresiewicz (see comments)
   
• A Few Indignant Words for Professor Wampole: A response to the NYtimes’s “How To Live Without Irony” by Stephanie Bernhard

• The Eye by Alice Munro

• The Semiautobiographers by Emily Cooke

• A Piece of Writing to Commemorate the Release of Both Flesh and Not, David Foster Wallace’s New Book of Essays by Tom Dibblee

• Rolling Jubilee: “OWS is going to start buying distressed debt (medical bills, student loans, etc.) in order to forgive it.”

• Poets, Protesters, and Proletarians — Oddballs of the Nineteenth-century by Evan Kindley

• Loss & Gain, Or the Fate of the Book by Anthony Daniels

• “A Penguin-Random House Merger is Scaring the World” by David Wagner

• Listen to Neil Gaiman tell a scary story (available until Halloween)

• “From Master Plan to No Plan: The Slow Death of Public Higher Education” by Aaron Bady and Mike Konczal

• A short history of Homo sapiens, as well as a prognosis for our survival

• “The Theory Generation” by Nicholas Dames

• Quentin Ring on Joshua Baldwin’s absurdist novella of Los Angeles, The Wilshire Sun