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Chris Ruen

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Chris Ruen is a 31 year-old author from Brooklyn whose essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, The New York Press and Stereogum. He is a former Contributing Editor for the internationally-distributed Cool ‘Eh Magazine and has covered music culture for Tiny Mix Tapes, a Minneapolis-based online music magazine. While studying at the University of Minnesota, he founded The Wake, a student magazine that went on to earn national recognition in 2006 as “Best Campus Publication” by the Independent Press Association. Ruen’s authorial debut, FreeLoading: How Our Insatiable Appetite For Free Content Is Starving Creativity, was published in 2012 by O/R Books in the US and Canada. The book will be published in Australia/New Zealand via Scribe Publications this coming March. Ruen’s work is animated by curiosity for what it means to be an engaged individual citizen-consumer in our time, as humanity begins to wrestle with this exponentially more technological, “connected” and dynamic new century. He "web-logs" at freeloadingthebook.wordpress.com.

Ruen has appeared onstage in conversation with David Byrne for the New York Public Library Live at NYPL series; has spoken on panels for policy conferences and arts festivals; and has been interviewed by WFMU, The Village Voice and Vol.1 Brooklyn. He also read his entire book in a single marathon reading last October.

Chris Ruen

4/5 ( ratings)
Website
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Twitter
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Chris Ruen is a 31 year-old author from Brooklyn whose essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, The New York Press and Stereogum. He is a former Contributing Editor for the internationally-distributed Cool ‘Eh Magazine and has covered music culture for Tiny Mix Tapes, a Minneapolis-based online music magazine. While studying at the University of Minnesota, he founded The Wake, a student magazine that went on to earn national recognition in 2006 as “Best Campus Publication” by the Independent Press Association. Ruen’s authorial debut, FreeLoading: How Our Insatiable Appetite For Free Content Is Starving Creativity, was published in 2012 by O/R Books in the US and Canada. The book will be published in Australia/New Zealand via Scribe Publications this coming March. Ruen’s work is animated by curiosity for what it means to be an engaged individual citizen-consumer in our time, as humanity begins to wrestle with this exponentially more technological, “connected” and dynamic new century. He "web-logs" at freeloadingthebook.wordpress.com.

Ruen has appeared onstage in conversation with David Byrne for the New York Public Library Live at NYPL series; has spoken on panels for policy conferences and arts festivals; and has been interviewed by WFMU, The Village Voice and Vol.1 Brooklyn. He also read his entire book in a single marathon reading last October.

Books from Chris Ruen

Freeloading: How our insatiable hunger for free content starves creativity

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Rock Bottom

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Everblue

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Bad Things

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Now and Then

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Bound

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