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Joan Didion’s Favorite Books of All Time, in a Handwritten Reading List
Joan Didion’s Favorite Books of All Time, in a Handwritten Reading List

A living anatomy of influences, from Brontë to Baldwin.

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2014’s Best Books on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live Meaningfully
2014’s Best Books on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live Meaningfully

How to be alone, wake up from illusion, master the art of asking, fathom your place in the universe, and more.

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David Bowie’s Formative Reading List of 75 Favorite Books
David Bowie’s Formative Reading List of 75 Favorite Books

From poetry to history to theory of mind, with plenty of fiction and a few magazines for good measure.

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Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers
Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers

Hemingway, Didion, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Sontag, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Morrison, Orwell, Le Guin, Woolf, and other titans of literature.

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What Is Love? Great Definitions from 400 Years of Great Literature
What Is Love? Great Definitions from 400 Years of Great Literature

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.”

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Margaret Mead on the Root of Racism and the Liability of Law Enforcement
Margaret Mead on the Root of Racism and the Liability of Law Enforcement

“The more complex a society becomes, the more fully the law must take into account the diversity of the people who live in it… It is a matter in which the whole society is involved.”

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Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Crucial Difference Between Success and Mastery
Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Crucial Difference Between Success and Mastery

The lost art of learning to stand “where we would rather not and expand in ways we never knew we could.”

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Pardon the Egg Salad Stains, But I’m in Love: Billy Collins Reads His Poem “Marginalia”
Pardon the Egg Salad Stains, But I’m in Love: Billy Collins Reads His Poem “Marginalia”

“We have all seized the white perimeter as our own and reached for a pen if only to show we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages…”

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A Typographic Tour of New York City at Night
A Typographic Tour of New York City at Night

“No other city in the world stages dusk to dawn like New York City.”

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Hide/Seek: Portraits of Gender Identity and Sexual Difference in Art
Hide/Seek: Portraits of Gender Identity and Sexual Difference in Art

What gelatin and silver have to do with the history of art and equality.

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