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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Design explorations 🤭 https://press.stripe.com/maintenance-part-one

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i just finished reading On The Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle, and i was not planning on reading book 2. this series has no thick plot line, it isn’t what one would call a page turner (you will still find yourself turning pages). closure felt unnecessary. but the world she builds is thick in its atmosphere. it is slow, viscous and not dramatic (ignoring the fact that time has stopped). she lives and relives her days while drawing her (and our) attention to details outside of it, to time, details, connections, while leaving her ponderings peppered along the way. and i thoroughly enjoyed that. this isn’t an extraordinary or a life changing book. this book feels like a slow pause and reflect (perfect after wolfing down East of Eden) i might pick up volume 3 at some point.

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1/ We’re (finally!) publishing one of my favorite books to date: Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One by @stewartbrand, about the unglamorous yet civilizationally important work of maintenance and repair.  https://press.stripe.com/maintenance-part-one

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I’m starting the Lymond Chronicles Any fans? What should I know up front? Cc @horsefacts.eth @keccers.eth @deodad @links @trupty

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Recommend if you want to feel something, if you like reading about the human experience and like character arcs more than plot. /books

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Really enjoyed reading Dan Wang’s 2025 letter. I’ve been reading his year end letters the last few years and they’re always insightful and interesting. I’ve had his book Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future downloaded for months but haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. I’ve long admired what China has been able to accomplish in the recent decades in terms of rapidly building infrastructure and modernizing their society while they’ve experienced hyper growth. I studied abroad in China years ago and the urgency to get stuff built is something that we continue to lack here in the US. Curious if anyone here has read Breakneck and has any clear takeaways or reviews https://danwang.co/2025-letter/

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Recursion as a framework for Infinite Jest. Now I need to do a Wolfram NKS / Infinite Jest mashup. I guess i need to read infinite jest first. I think i read first chapter at some point. https://youtu.be/YTLmg1JqyYs?si=OoJrPM4V4HW7gv1i

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is Hyperion from Dan Simmons any good ?

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Ugh @adrienne I knew I forgot something! We were supposed to feature @geaux.eth cast today and it get lost in the Link shuffle BUT will be sharing this on Monday on @gmfarcaster and it will give me more time to explore this very cool net library mini app!!

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i have been using a book to heavily detach + dissociate and i’m not even sorry. i picked it up because i wanted a big, fat, endless world of text to burrow in. i’m not sure why i never read East of Eden before, when it’s been in my face for years. i’m not sure why I chose to read it now, but it fits. the timing, the book and me, we fit (resulting in obsessive reading and dark circles) i just finished the book and i feel…satiated

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Book readers: Would you actually prefer to read books this way?

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All the data is not yet gathered and assessed but 2025 shaped up into a monumental year for books and film Books broke into triple-digit growth Film maintained steady double digit growth in revenue Thank you for supporting my work

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my first edition of east of eden has arrived! artfully intact. slightly worn with some fringe tears. 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 😍 elated.

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