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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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I’ve been reading Blood Meridian to my wife and it definitely feels like it should be read out loud. I’ve read parts of it to myself and am enjoying reading it aloud much more.

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"Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity."

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Just picked up Dashiel Hammett’s omnibus, my favourite crime and pulp fiction writer.

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Just started reading ‘Going Infinite’ by Michael Lewis - the story of SBF and FTX. I really enjoyed ‘Flash Boys’ by Michael Lewis. And I’m excited that his new book tackles one of crypto’s most infamous stories.

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"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

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Ive been reading W.B. Yeats every night before I go to bed

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words born in the heart of calm✨

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"the person who accepts reality or who responds systematically to modifications in the variables of the environment, appears precisely as someone manageable, someone who responds systematically to systematic modifications artificially introduced into the environment. Homo œconomicus is someone who is eminently governable."

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"Drive your cart and your plough over the bones of the dead."

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Spooky season is upon us 👻 As someone who enjoys horror movies of all kinds (especially the Italian giallo genre) I can highly recommend this book 📖

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Marcus and Aaron both "static-in-themselves" (at least when evaluated from these spectrums) but suffer very different fates because the former's position in the societal structure is relatively fixed/supported while the latter's is extremely precarious

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Some thematic spectrums extremely prevalent across Shakespeare's plays and poetry: words <-> actions letter of the law <-> spirit of the law image <-> substance body-politic <->body-natural mediated <-> immediate role <-> job means <-> ends

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