“On the imperfection of elegies.”
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Was It Worth It?
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I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
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Sleeping Beauty
“I was seven when I became aware of my longing for beautiful girls.”
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The Hypercurious Mind
“ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information.”
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“On the feedback loops of mimesis, from the ancients to AI.”
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“Cynthia Zarin traces the rise of fascism through the diary entries of Virginia Woolf.”
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Why Did the Rubber Chicken Cross the Road?
“At 38, I began to feel the creep of the millennial midlife crisis. So I decided to break the strangest world record I could find.”
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Brass Bands
“I quite like the brass band version of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, but I’m not sure it’s what Freddie Mercury had in mind.”