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This one has been linked all over the place already, but Time published an article on fan fiction called "The Boy Who Lived Forever". Most of it is truly very good, and a lot of that is undoubtedly due to the journalist (Lev Grossman) talking about the content with fic writers in an lj comm beforehand. I'm not always too fond of Time, but I'm very ( Read more... )

Quick recap: Kristina Busse's keynote "Affect and the individual fan" was given at the Textual Echoes conference and can be viewed in its entirety online. ( Read more... )