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Book Freak #222: How to remember anything, from a memory champion
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Everyday Genius shows that there's no such thing as “photographic memory.” Having a good memory is a skill — and six-time U.S. memory champion Nelson Dellis shows how to improve yours.
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Genius Is Trai...
Book Freak #221: How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
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How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World argues that you can live the life you want without changing the world or even changing a single other person — you just have to stop falling into the mental traps that keep you unfree.
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Book Freak #220: The Mind’s I
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The Mind's I, edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, collects 27 stories and essays that explore three questions: “What is the mind?” “Who am I?” and “Can machines think?”
It has pieces by Jorge Luis Borges, wit...
Beggars of Life: The hobo memoir that helped invent hardboiled prose
Book Freak #219 — Deep Cut Edition
Beggars of Life is Jim Tully’s 1924 hobo autobiography, a young Irish-American orphan’s first-person account of riding the rails through early-20th-century America, written in stripped-down vernacular pro...
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The Magus by John Fowles
The Magus is a labyrinthine novel about Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who takes a teaching post on a remote Greek island to escape a failed relationship. There he meets Maurice Conchis, a weal...
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