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Reads from August 2013

The Making of a 21st-Century Illuminated Manuscript: Inside Debbie Millman’s Creative Process
The Making of a 21st-Century Illuminated Manuscript: Inside Debbie Millman’s Creative Process

How an illustrated poem comes to life.

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Salvador Dalí Illustrates Montaigne: Sublime Surrealism from a Rare 1947 Limited Edition, Signed by Dalí
Salvador Dalí Illustrates Montaigne: Sublime Surrealism from a Rare 1947 Limited Edition, Signed by Dalí

Two of history’s most formidable talents, at the intersection of literature at art.

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Stunning Illustrations for Irish Myths and Legends
Stunning Illustrations for Irish Myths and Legends

“I have wished to become a child again that I might find this book.”

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Annie Dillard on Writing
Annie Dillard on Writing

“At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then — and only then — it is handed to you.”

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The Big Feminist BUT: The Caveats of Gender Politics in Comics
The Big Feminist BUT: The Caveats of Gender Politics in Comics

“There’s both liberation and possibility in pointing out that you’re not a sellout or a coward for refusing to adopt a label that doesn’t quite name your experience.”

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How to Optimize Your Brain: The Surprising Psychology of Why Emotional Recall, Not Intellectual Retrieval, Is the Key to Better Memory
How to Optimize Your Brain: The Surprising Psychology of Why Emotional Recall, Not Intellectual Retrieval, Is the Key to Better Memory

“You are what you remember — your very identity depends on all of the events, people and places you can recall.”

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The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland
The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland

“Attention is an intentional, unapologetic discriminator. It asks what is relevant right now, and gears us up to notice only that.”

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The Story of a Cover Girl: Leading Designers and Illustrators Reimagine Nabokov’s <em>Lolita</em>
The Story of a Cover Girl: Leading Designers and Illustrators Reimagine Nabokov’s Lolita

“Love itself is not selfish, devouring or cruel, but in human beings it suffers a terrible coexistence with those qualities.”

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Charles Bukowski Reads His “Friendly Advice to a Lot of Young Men” and Shares His Advice on Creativity
Charles Bukowski Reads His “Friendly Advice to a Lot of Young Men” and Shares His Advice on Creativity

“The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.”

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Richard Feynman on the Meaning of Life
Richard Feynman on the Meaning of Life

The elusive art of finding the open channel.

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