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he’s always looking at birds he’s seen a thousand times as if he’s seeing them for the first time. That’s a skill born of love, amateurism in the best sense. It’s an obsession, the kind that makes you drift off into the woods in college, so consumed with the unutterable pleasure of the work that you forget, ultimately, about earning a degree.
Jack Hitt • Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character
Now: the second-best of times.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
chapters 1 through 4 construct a detailed portrait of what life might be like within just ten or twenty years.
Abrahm Lustgarten • On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
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A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
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stand lead-footed, watching the ball skid low, graze the inside of the line on its way to set the chain-link fence into song.
Abraham Verghese • The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss
