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Matthew Budman

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Matthew Budman began reading books at age 2, buying at 8, collecting at 14, selling at 16, reviewing professionally at 23, and, some time later, buying and selling online, editing manuscripts, and writing books about book collecting. Chatwin Books published his guide "Book Collecting Now: The Value of Print in a Digital Age" in 2019, an update of his 2004 Random House/ House of Collectibles guide "Instant Expert: Collecting Books," which sold nearly ten thousand copies. A longtime editor and writer, he lives in Manhattan with his wife, political theorist Cristina Beltrán, and all the books they can squeeze into their apartment. ...more

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Book Collecting Now: The Va...

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Red Scare by Clay Risen
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Like a lot of people, I've been mostly aware of the postwar Red Scare via a handful of flashpoints immortalized in feature films: the Army–McCarthy hearings (Good Night, and Good Luck), the scheme to undermine America's top scientist (Oppenheimer), t ...more
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Made it 320 pages in—alas, not even halfway. The Love Songs… begins by suggesting, with a three-page family tree and a narrative beginning generations back, that its scope will be broad and historical. But Jeffers' story and scope actually shrink as ...more
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Heather is on page 148 of 208 of Giving Up Is Unforgivable: “The only option is to keep going.”
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All About Books: * Non-Fiction - What are you reading? 5493 1307 Feb 27, 2026 04:14PM  
E.M. Forster
“There are some chaps who are no good for anything but books; I plead guilty to being such a chap. —Cecil Vyse”
E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

Richard P. Feynman
“It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.”
Richard P. Feynman

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