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Thoughts on fairy tales

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From an essay by AS Byatt: As I grow older, the fact of the existence of the world's huge compendium of changing and unchangeable tales seems to me more, not less, mysterious. How can they so steadily resemble each other,...

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The Virtue of Forgetting

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Just got in from a really interesting talk by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. Mayer-Schonberger's concern is that with a shift to digital modes of storage, we've transitioned from a biologically hardwired...

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The Art of Dictionaries

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Every time I move to a new home, I try really hard to get rid of all my extra stuff - or at least to put it in storage. But when it comes to books, I have no willpower....

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A Wearable Library

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For the bibliophile who can't bear to leave all his or her books at home: a one-of-a-kind necklace of eleven miniature leather-bound books by TheBlackSpotBooks. Via NotCot....

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The Calligrapher

Category: Artists & Art

An enigmatic photo from Morbid Anatomy's review of the Quay Brothers show at Parsons in NYC. Read all about it here....

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Blog Followups: Weird books, steampunk snails

Category: Blogosphere

Those of you who visited Abebooks' weird book room have had an impact - check out this story in the Guardian. Also, I was thrilled to see photos of the Snail Art Car, the "Golden Mean," at Burning Man...

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At Home with Letterpress

Category: Artists & Art

"It will die, eventually, because no one will know how to do it." But for now, a few miles from here, Firefly Press' John Kristensen is keeping the tradition of letterpress alive, as seen in this beautiful video by Chuck...

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Like weird books?

Category: Blogosphere

The Haunted Vagina is just one of the titles featured in Abebooks' Weird Book Room, where you can find such treasures as Bombproof Your Horse, Is Your Dog Gay, The Thermodynamics of Pizza, Do-it-Yourself Coffins for Pets and People,...

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Thinking (and writing) about how we think

Category: Book Reviews

A review of Jonah Lehrer's How We Decide: think about how you think, but don't overthink it.

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Science on Unscientific America: "Boo"

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Reviewer Jerry Coyne appears to have some of the same reservations I do ("Mooney and Kirshenbaum also fail to support their contention that the knowledge gap between scientists and the public is increasing") - but he ends up voting thumbs...

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