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Chocolate, Jerks, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
July 29, 2013
On the Shelf
We all know
OMG
has some years on it, but,
as it turns out
, so do
unfriend
,
outasight
, and
hang out
.
Some leaves, woman holding a birdcage for some reason, and seventeen other contemporary
book-cover clichés
.
According to
a study
in the
Journal of Environmental Psychology
, bookstore sales may benefit from the aroma of chocolate.
“One unexpected development of becoming a writer is meeting literary heroes …
Unfortunately
, sometimes they turn out to be asses, or they hit on you.”
[WARNING: the following is disturbing.] The frontispiece of this nineteenth-century book reads, “The leather with which this book is bound is human skin, from a soldier who died during the great Southern Rebellion.” And it is not an idle boast; rather, it’s an example of the (hopefully) lost art of anthropodermic bibliopegy.
Read
at your own risk.
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