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Reads from 2012

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 13 Uses for Turkey Leftovers
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 13 Uses for Turkey Leftovers

“Not one but has been tried and proven — there are headstones all over America to testify to the fact.”

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Bruno Munari on Design as a Bridge Between Art and Life
Bruno Munari on Design as a Bridge Between Art and Life

“The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.”

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Dutch Illustrator Rop Van Mierlo’s Charming Rorschach-Like Wash Paintings of Wild Animals
Dutch Illustrator Rop Van Mierlo’s Charming Rorschach-Like Wash Paintings of Wild Animals

“A wild book for civilized people.”

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The Daily Routines of Great Writers
The Daily Routines of Great Writers

“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.”

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Geometrical Psychology: Mathematical Models of Consciousness by the 19th-Century Psychologist Benjamin Betts
Geometrical Psychology: Mathematical Models of Consciousness by the 19th-Century Psychologist Benjamin Betts

“Imagination receives the stream of Consciousness, and holds apart and compares the different experiences.”

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Fiona Apple’s Stirring Handwritten Letter About Her Dying Dog
Fiona Apple’s Stirring Handwritten Letter About Her Dying Dog

“I wish we could also appreciate the time that lies right beside the end of time.”

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Marilyn Monroe’s Turkey Recipe
Marilyn Monroe’s Turkey Recipe

How to cook a bird like Norma Jeane.

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A Visual Timeline of the Future Based on Famous Fiction
A Visual Timeline of the Future Based on Famous Fiction

Proof that in the year 802701, the world will still exist.

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Tiny Collaborative Stories
Tiny Collaborative Stories

A charmingly minimalist cross-pollination of word and image at the heart of being human.

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Joan Didion on Keeping a Notebook
Joan Didion on Keeping a Notebook

“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.”

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