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What’s True About True Crime? Considering DNA, Reddit, Dead Bodies and Truth
Let’s consider the psychological impact of closely scrutinized murder.
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Spies, Art, The Cultural Cold War, and Ai Weiwei
This week, the pile pertains to art and state ideology in reviews of Frances Stoner Saunders’ history of the cultural Cold War, Who Paid the Piper and Zodiac, a new graphic memoir about the controversial Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
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2024 Reflections, Prayers, Guidance and Reading
Considering Art, Prayer, and Deep Reading this New Year Happy New Year to you and your book pile! I start the new year gently, and this post discusses asking the universe for artistic guidance and highly specific reading pile pleasures. Books Living the Artist Way By Julia Cameron 2023, St. Martin Essentials Julia Cameron’s The…
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Data Analysis of My 2023 Reading
Three years ago, I started a reading database. In 2023, I started learning about the data analysis process and, indeed, spent the best parts of the year reading and learning about data. While many posts try to convince their reader to build a “Second Brain,” this post has no such Frankensteinian ambitions. Instead, I will…
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Every Book I Read in 2023
I read 183 books in 2023. In this post, I consider each book with a sentence-ish review.
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Life As Art, Life As Art Theft, And Freud’s Cigar Fixation
As the year winds down, and the darkness reaches its peak, I search for strange reading. This week we consider a human art project, an art thief, Sigmund Freud’s cigars.
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Burning Priceless Art, Paranormal Investigations, and Death Game Islands
Considering Favorite Reads And Burned Information It’s buying season. A perfect thing to buy a lover is a book. They don’t need to read it to enjoy it; they can put it in a pile and look at it, and by sheer proximity, they will absorb its wisdom. Novels Alice KnottBy Blake Butler2020, Riverhead Books…
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The Mass Protest Decade, Deadly Used Car Salesmen, Mascots Gods and Godzilla
The days grow colder, and the piles grow larger. This week, the piles bring mass protests, big dinosaurs, God mascots, and the debut of a new pile: movies!
