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  1. Mr. @michaelschaub is the new managing editor of Bookslut. Details here: http://is.gd/4RMY4
  2. In my mailbox, beautiful, beautiful: http://is.gd/4RKzz
  3. Kate Beaton on the rejected pen names of the Brontes. http://is.gd/4Rwbq
  4. Brian Eno and Steven Johnson on what kind of environments foster innovation. http://is.gd/4Rw5a
  5. Eddie Campbell: "Twittering is the literature of today. God help us." http://is.gd/4QUhn
  6. Elizabeth Kolbert on why Superfreakonomic's global warming section is "horseshit." http://is.gd/4QTEc
  7. Dysrationalia: why intelligent people make stupid mistakes. http://is.gd/4QNGQ
  8. When Magdeburg, Germany shut down their library, citizens built their own open-air version. http://is.gd/4PFAo
  9. Dear gorgeous man reading Donald Duck comics on the train: I feel very conflicted about crushing on you.
  10. RT @StanCarey The mysterious case of Joe Orton and the defaced library books: http://bit.ly/3C9Fc0
  11. "Something is wrong in the house." First chapter of Kathryn Davis's brilliant Hell. http://is.gd/4OEvp
  12. To brighten up your day: read a new translation of Kierkegaard's Repetition. "The impossibility of contentment," indeed. http://is.gd/4Oa9d
  13. Once when I gave a writer a K Davis novel, she replied, "Fuck, there's no point in me writing, she's said it all." Getting that now.
  14. Column on RD Laing's legacy, antipsychotics for kids, and the shambles of the US mental health care system. http://is.gd/4NWV8
  15. Jenny Diski: "I find families vile and dangerous, and I don’t find love that relates to family life very plausible." http://is.gd/4N4u9
  16. @psamuelson01 I'm told it never gets so cold it hurts to breathe (like in Chicago) but the sun is already setting at 4:30
  17. First snow in Berlin means a day of comfort reading (http://is.gd/4MVAx) and comfort eating (Oreos).
  18. @martynpedler Lauren Slater did a follow up to the study in her weird but interesting Opening Skinner's Box. Also worth reading.
  19. Column done, but can't stop reading supplementary material, like "Being Sane in Insane Places." http://is.gd/4MMF9
  20. BLICKFANG: The Eye-Catching Covers of Weimar Berlin http://is.gd/4M1GP (via Journalista)