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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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Synesthesia and the Poetry of Numbers: Autistic Savant Daniel Tammet on Literature, Math, and Empathy, with a Side of Borges
Synesthesia and the Poetry of Numbers: Autistic Savant Daniel Tammet on Literature, Math, and Empathy, with a Side of Borges

“Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view.”

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The Lincoln of Literature: Mark Twain, <em>The Atlantic</em>, and the Making of the Middlebrow Magazine
The Lincoln of Literature: Mark Twain, The Atlantic, and the Making of the Middlebrow Magazine

How Twain entered the literary elite and purged literature of elitism.

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I Got Two Dogs: A Charming Children’s Book-and-Song by John Lithgow
I Got Two Dogs: A Charming Children’s Book-and-Song by John Lithgow

“They’re not too smart, but they’re loyal and true.”

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Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Poems for Young People
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Poems for Young People

Warm hearts, brown thoughts, and the magic of city trees.

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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 Best Books on Writing, NYC, Animals, and More: A Collaboration with the New York Public Library
The Best Books on Writing, NYC, Animals, and More: A Collaboration with the New York Public Library

A celebration of timelessly wonderful reads in an elaborate diorama of papercraft book sculptures.

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Fear and Loathing in Modern Media: Hunter S. Thompson on Journalism, Politics, and the Subjective
Fear and Loathing in Modern Media: Hunter S. Thompson on Journalism, Politics, and the Subjective

“There is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.”

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Barthes’s Likes and Dislikes, Illustrated
Barthes’s Likes and Dislikes, Illustrated

Champagne over strawberries, Glenn Gould over Vivaldi, romantic music over fidelity, and no telephoning.

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Amanda Palmer on Creativity as Connecting Dots and the Terrifying Joy of Sharing Your Art Online
Amanda Palmer on Creativity as Connecting Dots and the Terrifying Joy of Sharing Your Art Online

“We can only connect the dots that we collect.”

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