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Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
Sarah McNally considers herself a humble bookseller while also being the founder and owner of an ever-expanding empire, McNally Jackson, now likely the third-largest buyer of books in the city, after only Barnes & Noble and the Strand. She is a thumb on the scale of cultural life in the city. She hosts several book groups at the stores and privately runs several more. Hang around literary circles long enough and word will reach you that she is reading "Middlemarch" with Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy and has read Clarice Lispector with David Byrne and Esther Perel. Her New York is a place where we are all only one read away from our best selves, lacking only the space to dig in. She is there to provide. “I want people to know that they can trust us with their reading life, that this is not a sloppy nor commercial project,” she said with characteristic fervor. "I am working at the limits of my ability and doing so for what I believe is a good cause: the life of the mind in New York City." Link in bio. Photo: @jeremy_liebman
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Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Today, Foster insists he said that in jest. But it is significant to note that more than 30 years later, he remembered that scene, and that line, enough to retell it. And it’s significant to note that more than 30 years later, Foster has ascended to Jordane... See more
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Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
“His trip reports betray a theme, in photo after photo entirely devoid of human companionship: empty lounges, first-class menus, embroidered satin pillows—inanimate totems of a five-star existence.” But he’s winning.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
His ambition was grandiose, but he wasn’t.
Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
assume you’re not that person.
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Happiness
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