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Viewers Like You: Edward Gorey’s Animated Intro for PBS’s Mystery
Viewers Like You: Edward Gorey’s Animated Intro for PBS’s Mystery

Lessons in giving from the master of the macabre.

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Sir David Attenborough Narrates Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” to Glorious Glimpses of Nature
Sir David Attenborough Narrates Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” to Glorious Glimpses of Nature

“The colors of a rainbow, so pretty in the sky, are also on the faces of people going by…”

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Maira Kalman + Daniel Handler Illustrate a Breakup Through Significant Objects
Maira Kalman + Daniel Handler Illustrate a Breakup Through Significant Objects

What sugar and a pinhole camera have to do with the ephemeral ephemera of impossible love.

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Marginalia and the Yin-Yang of Reading and Writing
Marginalia and the Yin-Yang of Reading and Writing

The bibliophile’s property rights, or why the osmosis of agreement and disagreement belongs in a book’s margins.

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