topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “From My Nigerian Connection”: Pauline Masurel has fun here riffing on the barrage of grammatically-challenged exhortatory missives so many of us discovered in our inboxes over the last decade, sent by enterprising […]

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “Disconnected Pen”: This is a great subject, and a low-key but powerful demonstration of how 21st -century communication technologies are changing the way people live—and die— before any of us has had […]

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “Timor Highway”: While this story doesn’t adhere to the theme of the contest—“Being Connected in the 21st Century”—as directly as the others, it shows that connections of love, duty and loyalty don’t […]

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “Half a Toast”: I liked the way this story kept me guessing, even though it was short. And after reading it once, I read it again, with new appreciation for the author’s […]

200 million Twitter users, 500 million on Facebook, Planes, Trains and Automobiles… Everyone keeps talking about how we’re more connected than ever. But what does being “connected” in 2011 even mean? Sure we’re more connected to our phones, but what about all the other stuff: being connected to each other […]