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@HighSierraMan @JoshMankiewicz Yeah, but I was in the Merry Marvel Marching Society--with a No-Prize personally awarded by Stan Lee!

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@TimothyNoah1 My old boss Jeff Bezos, whom I schooled on the Beatles in my favorite Amazon meeting, has a sense of humor, and the most distinctive laugh you'll ever hear. When he sat in the lap of Hitchhiker's Guide author Douglas Adams, you could hear it all the way down the hall.

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@lady_sasquatch To get as close as possible to the real story, read Garry Wills' What Paul Meant. Tells about the OG Jesus movement, before patriarchs and hierarchy erased women's crucial contribution.

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@mattzollerseitz He'll love the nine alternative multiverse options on the menu in Brian Greene's The Hidden Reality.

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My brainy molecular neuroscientist nephew Trygve weighs in on the techniques that look like they refute Carl Sagan's "lizard brain" idea from The Dragons of Eden (which breaks my heart). https://t.co/eIrMKQEkn4

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@Glenn__Kenny Dunno, but I thought it amusing that when I reviewed his Dino book in EW, my first sentence was, "When the prose hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's Nick Tosches," and my editor said she edited a piece by Nick that used the exact same first phrase.

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@lady_sasquatch Calls for a story by haunting otherworldly In the Penny Arcade author Steven Millhauser (who may secretly be a superhero: Uncannyman).

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@infoCinelandia Also, many First American artists learned the almost-lost rules of their tradition from Seattle high-school art teacher Bill Holm's Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form. And then went beyond.

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@akstanwyck I felt bad that terrific movie tanked, and also that they dropped the original title, from Robert Stone's best novel Dog Soldiers. Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters failed to make a great movie of their adventures, but this one immortalized Neal Cassady and La Honda's phantasmagoria.

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@CaryRyan4 @Shteyngart Stephen King told me his missus retrieved Carrie from the garbage can where he put it. "You married the right woman," I said. "Yes," he said.