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How to Master on the Art of Getting Noticed: Austin Kleon’s Advice to Aspiring Artists
How to Master on the Art of Getting Noticed: Austin Kleon’s Advice to Aspiring Artists

How to balance the contagiousness of raw enthusiasm with the humility of knowing we’re all in this together.

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Jeanette Winterson on the Value of Art to the Human Spirit
Jeanette Winterson on the Value of Art to the Human Spirit

“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.”

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How Should We Live: History’s Forgotten Wisdom on Love, Time, Family, Empathy, and Other Aspects of the Art of Living
How Should We Live: History’s Forgotten Wisdom on Love, Time, Family, Empathy, and Other Aspects of the Art of Living

“How to pursue the art of living has become the great quandary of our age… The future of the art of living can be found by gazing into the past.”

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Wisdom from a MacArthur Genius: Psychologist Angela Duckworth on Why Grit, Not IQ, Predicts Success
Wisdom from a MacArthur Genius: Psychologist Angela Duckworth on Why Grit, Not IQ, Predicts Success

“Character is at least as important as intellect.”

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“Tip-of-the-Tongue Syndrome,” Transactive Memory, and How the Internet Is Making Us Smarter
“Tip-of-the-Tongue Syndrome,” Transactive Memory, and How the Internet Is Making Us Smarter

“A public library keeps no intentional secrets about its mechanisms; a search engine keeps many.”

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The Distracted Public: Saul Bellow on How Writers and Artists Save Us from the “Moronic Inferno” of Our Time
The Distracted Public: Saul Bellow on How Writers and Artists Save Us from the “Moronic Inferno” of Our Time

“The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.”

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The 13 Best Art and Design Books of 2013
The 13 Best Art and Design Books of 2013

Imaginative maps, illuminating infographics, literary cats, vintage Soviet propaganda, Gertrude Stein’s favorite objects, and other treats for eye and spirit.

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This Is Love: Neil Gaiman’s Bachelor Party the Night Before He Married Amanda Palmer
This Is Love: Neil Gaiman’s Bachelor Party the Night Before He Married Amanda Palmer

An uncommon story of uncommon romance.

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William Faulkner on Writing, the Purpose of Art, Working in a Brothel, and the Meaning of Life
William Faulkner on Writing, the Purpose of Art, Working in a Brothel, and the Meaning of Life

“The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.”

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Oscar Wilde on Art and Cultivating the Crucial Temperament of Receptivity
Oscar Wilde on Art and Cultivating the Crucial Temperament of Receptivity

“The temperament to which Art appeals … is the temperament of receptivity.”

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