The New Yorker, 2007-10-01

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"The Pictures: Books in Bulk" / Austin Kelley
__ Customers can choose from eighteen basic library styles, for purchase or rental. “Bargain books,” a random selection of hardbacks, is the cheapest, at ten dollars per foot of shelf space. For thirty dollars, clients can customize the color. For seventy-five, they can get a “leather-looking” library, which, as the Strand’s Web site puts it, “is often mistaken for leather.”

"The Mannahatta Project" / Nick Paumgarten
__ We've made a fine mess.
__ various soil guides, which describe much of the city's soil as "coarse anthropogenic material," also known as garbage.

"The Tsar's Opponent" / David Remnick
__ the Smolny Institute for Nobel Maidens.. the Bolshevik headquarters during the October Revolution
__ When Garry was around six, he picked up an endgame puzzle in the newspaper and solved it, even though he didn't yet know the rules of chess.

Cartoon: men around a table SatC style - 'I want a woman who's not afraid to have a few extra pounds - but doesn't.'

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