On Dog Ears

Do you dog-ear the pages of your books?

Photographer Erica Baum sees dog-eared pages as more than placeholders.  In her new book, Dog Ear, she photographed dog-eared pages of mass-market paperbacks, presenting the pages in a new light, as text with new meaning and as art.

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LaToya Jordan is a writer from Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of the poetry chapbook, Thick-Skinned Sugar (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and her work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays 2016. Her writing has appeared in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Mom Egg Review, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, and more. Visit her at latoyajordan.com.

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