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Hopeful Dispatches on Love, Sex, Work, Friendship, Death, and Life’s In-Betweenery from Lena Dunham
Hopeful Dispatches on Love, Sex, Work, Friendship, Death, and Life’s In-Betweenery from Lena Dunham

“It’s a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.”

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Werner Herzog on America and His Lifelong NASA Dream
Werner Herzog on America and His Lifelong NASA Dream

“The country has always had a capacity to rejuvenate itself, pull itself out of defeat and look to the future. There has always been space there to create real change.”

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What There Is Before There Is Anything There: Celebrated Cartoonist Liniers Confronts Childhood Nightmares
What There Is Before There Is Anything There: Celebrated Cartoonist Liniers Confronts Childhood Nightmares

An imaginative graphic novel about the quintessential childhood fear.

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The Edge of the Sky: A Poetic Primer on the Science of the Universe Composed in the 1,000 Most Common Words in the English Language
The Edge of the Sky: A Poetic Primer on the Science of the Universe Composed in the 1,000 Most Common Words in the English Language

“Perhaps the All-There-Is is not all there is.”

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A Lolitigation Lament: Nabokov on Censorship and Solidarity
A Lolitigation Lament: Nabokov on Censorship and Solidarity

“Could you visualize LOLITA as a little paperback being offered for sale on the newstands?”

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Sam Harris on the Paradox of Meditation and How to Stretch Our Capacity for Everyday Self-Transcendence
Sam Harris on the Paradox of Meditation and How to Stretch Our Capacity for Everyday Self-Transcendence

“Positive emotions, such as compassion and patience, are teachable skills; and the way we think directly influences our experience of the world.”

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The Art of Timing: Alan Watts on the Perils of Hurrying and the Pleasures of Presence
The Art of Timing: Alan Watts on the Perils of Hurrying and the Pleasures of Presence

“For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones — for it is the secret of proper timing.”

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The Psychology of Cryptomnesia: How We Unconsciously Plagiarize Existing Ideas
The Psychology of Cryptomnesia: How We Unconsciously Plagiarize Existing Ideas

The cognitive machinery of inadvertent copying and why it matters more than ever.

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Mary Oliver Reads Her Beloved Poem “Wild Geese”
Mary Oliver Reads Her Beloved Poem “Wild Geese”

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination…”

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Greil Marcus on What the History of Rock ‘n’ Roll Teaches Us about Innovation and the Art of Self-Reinvention
Greil Marcus on What the History of Rock ‘n’ Roll Teaches Us about Innovation and the Art of Self-Reinvention

How to continually experience “the satisfaction that only art, only the act of putting something new into the world, can bring.”

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