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What Makes a Great City: Anaïs Nin on the Poetics of New York
What Makes a Great City: Anaïs Nin on the Poetics of New York

“Just bring your own contents, and you create a sparkle of the highest power.”

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7 Essential Collections of Conversations with Cultural Icons
7 Essential Collections of Conversations with Cultural Icons

Inside our era’s greatest minds, or what Nelson Mandela has to do with the fringes of the art world.

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New Dawn, New Day: Introducing the New Brain Pickings
New Dawn, New Day: Introducing the New Brain Pickings

Today is a big day here, for today is the day that Brain Pickings sheds a skin that never quite fit and is reborn into what it always aimed to be, visually and editorially.

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projeqt: A Creative Storytelling Platform
projeqt: A Creative Storytelling Platform

The new language of the creative polyglot, or what tweets have to do with portfolios.

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6 Six Places to Find Affordable Art
6 Six Places to Find Affordable Art

Sticker-shockless art, or what good taste and good deeds have in common.

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A Vintage Love Letter to Summer: Jan Morris on New York’s Heatwaves as the Ultimate Equalizer of Humanity
A Vintage Love Letter to Summer: Jan Morris on New York’s Heatwaves as the Ultimate Equalizer of Humanity

How the extremities of the thermometer bridge the most insurmountable of social barriers.

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Follow For Now: A Time-Capsule of Contemporary Thought
Follow For Now: A Time-Capsule of Contemporary Thought

What the changing guard of design has to do with evolutionary theories of network dynamics.

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Brain Pickings Redux 2010
Brain Pickings Redux 2010

A year’s worth of ideas, inspiration and innovation from culture’s collective brain.

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The Brain Pickings 500
The Brain Pickings 500

What three years of blood, sweat and smiles have to do with sustainable fashion.

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Best Albums of August & September 2009
Best Albums of August & September 2009

Lovable monsters, Middle Eastern obsessions, and why good things only get better with time.

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