Sublime

but there was also a selection of the books the store’s staff decided were worth a closer look, a collective act of curation.

Enshiu derided his own taste as too mainstream to be truly great. Yet catering to “the taste of the majority” might be the single goal of…

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It had been aggressively filtered in advance to appeal to me—or at least myself as a generic consumer—with abundant reassurances that other people did like the books on display.

streambait”

wrote.

the case of Bill Watterson, the creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, who had made a pact to produce daily strips that resonated deeply with readers. He enjoyed the work and had no plans of stopping. However, as the popularity of his work grew, he faced mounting pressure to capitalize on its success by expanding into other forms of

William Vollmann, whose collection The Rainbow Stories