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Tag Archives: books
Unpacking My Media
I unpacked my media collection last week, and in an effort to purchase some intellectual fuel to reflect upon the task (and for the nonsense that follows), I recently reread Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay “Unpacking My Library.” For a 20th century polymath like Benjamin, … Continue reading
Posted in Diary of Consumption, Moleskines, The Nostalgia Box
Tagged books, cartoons, collecting, collections, ownership, sharing, Unpacking my library, Walter Benjamin
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A Few ‘Goodreads’
A couple of years ago, my good friend Heather DeFore convinced me to join Goodreads, a social networking website for the recommendation and reviewing of books between friends and other persons of like-minded tastes. I joined not only to better … Continue reading
Posted in Diary of Consumption, Moleskines
Tagged books, cartoons, comic strips, drawing, Goodreads, Oracle Night, Paul Auster, reading
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Brain Defibrillators
I spend entirely too much time entertaining a vague worry that I’m going brain-dead or otherwise prematurely senile, and at no time is this worry more intense than after perusing articles online–looking but not reading, flitting from one opening paragraph … Continue reading
Posted in Diary of Consumption, Moleskines
Tagged Alistair Cooke, books, cartoons, comics, de Tocqueville, Derek Jeter, drawing, Louisville, reading, Rolling Stone, Slate, sports, WWII, youth
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