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Welcome @tamarawinter! Tamara is the Commissioning Editor for Stripe Press. I like to think of Stripe Press as a distribution channel for the most interesting ideas in the world. She has kindly agreed to do an AMA. Reply with your questions :)

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Gm from Portugal

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“the patient desedimentation of the strata of occulted meanings” Excerpt From The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics Burt C. Hopkins This material may be protected by copyright.

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READING MAKES A COUNTRY GREAT !

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Unrequested Book Reccs Midwest 21st century fiction Ed. (with one Scandinavian outlier) Kitchens of the Great Midwest Shotgun Lovesongs Peace Like a River Beartown https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23398625-kitchens-of-the-great-midwest https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17934521-shotgun-lovesongs https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227571.Peace_Like_a_River https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33413128-beartown

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In the late 1800s states still didn’t budget. They would issue bonds to cover short falls (this later almost leads to NYCs bankruptcy). Corruption was rampant and holding states and cities to a budget was a major innovation. Several NYC leaders were ousted for embezzling money using cement purchases. The NYC health department was the municipal department with a budget. These facts brought to you by me slowly reading “The Power Broker”

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I’m rebuilding an analog library after some years of being an e-book maxi. I absolutely love hardbacks for how pretty they look on the shelves and the intergenerational durability. But the prices I’m seeing for hardbacks are just obscene, relative to the marginal cost of printing

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yeah sex is cool but have you ever let a poem rearrange your soul

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Is consciousness even useful? https://youtu.be/T_Ygtc_O9-U?si=smNgmEdhfwDpIpH4

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It’s my first Deepak Chopra

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language has to “fall” or “decline” into cases; because it can’t “stand” outside the constraints of space and time

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Oops i did it again

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Weekend reads on a future reading. Who's translating Chang's autobiography please?

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The Rings of Saturn W.G Sebald

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