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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Monkey’s Paw in Toronto sells random books from a biblio-mat machine. A manhunt is on for a thief who stole two rare books in New York City. The last bookstore in Peshawar, Pakistan is closing. A Dallas, Texas bookstore is…
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Weekly Geekery
What we need is a kinder, gentler robot. The currency of clicks. Using Google to find a monster. Shedding your own skin. Thinking beyond extinction.
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All Are Bad
We’ve all read at least one: from “Against YA” to “Against Happiness,” essays that promise to dismiss entire abstract concepts using only rhetoric make for great click-bait. In The New Yorker, Ivan Kreilkamp explains why we keep overstating the case:…