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Charles Brooks Photographs the Interiors of Musical and Scientific Instruments

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obsessed with mass market paperbacks. their pleasing rectangular proportions. how they fit badly in a hoodie pocket so you can drag them around everywhere with you like a temporary little buddy. the way they fit in your hand because they're MADE for human hands and not as bookshelf decoration. the way the pages feel when you riffle them gently with your thumb. How pristine and crisp they look when you get them and how creased and folded they look when you're done, even if you try to be nice to them. how that wear is okay, how that's correct actually, because they're made with the philosophy that books aren't meant to be PRETTY, they're meant to be read. that little ripple new ones get on the left side from where you hold them when you're reading, the way the ripple only goes as far as you've read, because u change stories by reading as they are changing you. how you can find thousands of these creased and folded and loved little dudes in every thrift store and used book shop and neighborhood library and you can instantly see the ones that someone carried around in a backpack for weeks or read to pieces or gave up on halfway through because they wear being read like fresh snow wears footprints. I love these poorly made, subpar little rectangles so much. truly the people's books.

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This weekend! 🔥 Please join me at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Saturday, April 26 at 11:20am for High Intensity, Even Higher Stakes: Fantastical Worlds and Underworlds in Young Adult Fiction with Sharon Levin, Victoria Aveyard, Ransom Riggs, Brittany N. Williams, Regan Revord & Annabelle Chang at the YA Stage! 🔥 Signing to follow in Signing Area 9.

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In this one-of-a-kind altered book, the artist, Lynn Skordal creates a “found poem” by transforming the 1991 edition of “Gift From the Sea” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh with hand-cutting and heat-transferred images.

The images were created from turn-of-the-century portraits and vintage photographs of unknown women from the 1930's and 1940's. In every image the women are evading the camera's eye, and all their faces are hidden. The book's existing text has been excised, leaving only a few phrases and words on each page, which then become a "found poem" and meditation on the unease and longing of women. (Summarized from 23sandy.com)

Please don't look : a book of longing Skordal, Lynn [artist] La Conner, WA : Lynn Skordal, 2011. 73 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm + 1 folded page with poem English HOLLIS number: 99153687234203941

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On the hundredth day after the new year the heralds come to the doors of the city, announcing the arrival of the Golden Caravan at the farthest stop of its route ; like every year, citizens and travellers will surely gather at the western door to see it come to pass.

Right behind the banners as customary are the sculptor priests, foremost of the stonemason orders, bringing in this year's votive masterwork for the festivities. The black and white steppe oxen precede the arrival of the head guild architect, charged with the safekeeping of the citizens' sacred geometry. The graduating apprentices and newly welcomed novices walk besides the draftsroom carriage, bearing the icons of the Citizen Architects Guild : ardor and patience. Out of the kilns of the imperial workshops come delicate masterwork sought after the world over ; the sister-ceramists are selected from various key regions of the trade system and bring their local styles to the imperial production. Those workshops are the northernmost stop on the caravan's route.

Behind the masons, the torchbearers announce the arrival of the metalworkers' guilds, chief of which the head goldsmith on a palanquin of her own design. The braseros and forges are continuously tended by guild kindlers as to remain lit throughout the entire voyage of the caravan. Second to last comes the host of the manticore, behind the braseros of the master kindlers. It is believed that the creature requires her caretakers to be pure of heart and most diligent ; the honour is bestowed only on the highest performing apprentices of the smithing guilds. On the last day finally, behind the last of the apprentices, the crones of the chain count the days left to craft, keeping misfortune at work away, and, some even say, Death itself.

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Thrilled to share another glorious blurb for A LEGIONNAIRE'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND PEACE! It's an honor, a privilege, and an absolute delight to have my good friend @tracichee's generous endorsement!

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Even more of Sarah Skrutskie's wonderful art for A LEGIONNAIRE'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND PEACE. Here's an intro to Kat and Emory together, featuring the load-bearing hand pies ☺️

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KINDLING is one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)! 🔥 Thank you so much to Kirkus for including Kindling on this list of truly incredible YA titles. What an honor! Find the full list and get some TBR inspiration here.

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How does it feel? I don't know, I...

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Advanced reader copies of A LEGIONNAIRE'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND PEACE are here!

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In this video, take a flight through millions of galaxies mapped using coordinate data from DESI.

Credit: Fiske Planetarium, CU Boulder and DESI collaboration

astrohumanist

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We have 30 days until the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) laws are rescinded. This is the 50-year bedrock of American conservation. Normally, these actions take years but the administration has provided 30 days for public comment gutting clean water and clean air. Drop what you’re doing, before you make any more calls or read any more social media posts, please populate the Federal Register with dissent.

A. Go to https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/25/2025-03014/removal-of-national-environmental-policy-act-implementing-regulations

B. Click on the green rectangle in the upper right corner ("SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT") .

C. Fill in your comment, and info at the bottom, and SUBMIT COMMENT.

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The peak of Krenitsyna Volcano rises as an island within an island in Russia's Far East. It is located on Onekotan Island in the northwest Pacific Ocean and surrounded by Kol'tsevoye Lake, a 4.6-mile-wide (7.5-km) caldera lake. Onekotan is part of the Kuril Islands, a volcanic archipelago and segment of the “Ring of Fire” — a path of tectonic activity that circles the Pacific Ocean.

49.350000°, 154.700000°

Source imagery: NASA / Planet

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Vibrant Brushstrokes Float in Resin Cubes in Fabian Oefner’s Sculptural Ode to Painting

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As above, so below

Mamenchisaurus, Jiangjunosaurus, Sericipterus.

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Fish River Canyon, in southern Namibia, is the largest canyon in Africa. It features a gigantic ravine that is about 100 miles (160 km) long, up to 17 miles (27 km) wide, and almost 1,800 feet (550 m) deep in certain places. The Fish River — the longest in Namibia — flows intermittently, usually flooding in late summer; the rest of the year it becomes a chain of long narrow pools.

-27.589293°, 17.597587°

Source imagery: Maxar

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Kindling is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Young Adult Literature! I’m so thrilled to see this novel included in such a compelling line-up alongside titles like Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell, Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo, Shut up, This is Serious by Carolina Ixta, and The Color of a Lie by Kim Johnson. Congrats to all the finalists, and huge thanks to the LA Times and the panel of judges for this amazing honor! If you’re looking for more great reads, be sure to check out the full list of finalists. A limited number of tickets are available for the awards ceremony on April 25, but general admission to the LA Times Festival of Books April 26-27 is free, so mark your calendars if you’re in SoCal for a wonderful lineup of events!