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A 2014 paper called "Toward Defining the Ego-seum" about the new trend toward the personal-private art museum that focuses on the Pizzuti Collection in Columbus, Ohio.

Three poems and one illustration by Pallavi Sen at MonsterHousePress.com. Read more of this blog post »

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	Things Just Aren't They 4.38 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Assuming Size by Jordan Castro (Goodreads Author), Richard Wehrenberg, James Payne (Goodreads Author) 4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Keep This Bag Away from Children 2 by Noah Cicero (Goodreads Author), Melissa Broder (Goodreads Author), Michael J. Seidlinger (Goodreads Author) 4.71 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Austerity Pleasures 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anobium: Volume One [Summer 2011] by James Payne (Goodreads Author), Laura Carter, Stephanie Plenner (Goodreads Author) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arty Party by Sara Drake, James Payne (Goodreads Author) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women's Comics Anthology by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Goodreads Author), James Payne (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Punk Zine: The Art/History Issue it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Museums Tell Me They Hate Me: Paying Attention to the Language of the Unpaid Internship it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Hour Publications: 01 by James Payne (Goodreads Author), Jack Ramunni it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell

by Mark Kurlansky

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A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

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Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women

by Ricky Jay

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James Payne wants to read Cat Man by Edward Hoagland	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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James Payne rated a book it was amazing The Blue Aspic by Edward Gorey	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Bonny's dulcimer toned tongue read this aloud to me at Alabaster. More plotting than is usual in Gorey, and it ends in a murder-suicide, the only appropriate ending to a narrative. ...more
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James Payne wants to read Danielle Aubert: Marking the Dispossessed by Danielle Aubert	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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James Payne wants to read The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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James Payne rated a book it was amazing The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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James Payne rated a book it was ok Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life by Anonymous	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Oh my God, don't date an alcoholic if you don't like them being an alcoholic, it's not that deep. She should have broken up with him years prior. ...more
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James Payne wants to read A Second Book of Booksellers: Conversations with the Antiquarian Book Trade by Sheila Markham	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“...keep your focus on aesthetics: notice Rist's use of the color red, but avoid making connections, actually just avoid using your head—lose yourself in her immersive installations instead.”
― James Payne, Things Just Aren't They

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