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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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Wynn-Williams has a great story to tell, of how Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg's “lethal carelessness” about Facebook's impact, focusing on the site's growth and their personal power at all costs, destroyed any potential as a force for good. The ...more
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A perfect book to encounter on a vacation-home shelf: Would never have made an active decision to acquire a copy of Fleetwood, but sure, absolutely, I'll spend a few before-bed evenings skimming this shaggy memoir. Mick's story is a candid, artless a ...more
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All About Books: * Non-Fiction - What are you reading? 5492 1303 Nov 18, 2025 02:07AM  
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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