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Dilemmas of NYC’s moneyed set: How to create a book collection that matches your interests and Eames ottoman and makes you look smart. (Thanks, GMB.)
Dilemmas of NYC’s moneyed set: How to create a book collection that matches your interests and Eames ottoman and makes you look smart. (Thanks, GMB.)
Would Jane Austen be able to find an agent or publisher today? Rejections elicited by barely amended versions of her books suggest not.
Was there really a dissertation about a village that did not exist? Scott McLemee wants to know. Princeton grads say yes. (See comments.)
Somehow I didn’t realize that John Leguizamo plays Lorenzo Daza in the film adaptation of Love in the Time of Cholera, which debuts 11/16.
A new book about Hemingway and his cats includes photos of Papa loving on them (and feeding them corn). (Via.)